2368 40435 hist: When was print invented in Europe? 15-th century (Gutenberg; long after the Chinese print) 1848 7 0 12.01.1999 5.252 40629 hist: When did we land on the moon? 1969 (July 20) 1142 8 0 15.01.2001 5.656 40625 hist: What was the first electronic computer? Eniac (1946) 1652 7 0 30.08.1999 5.829 149616 hist: The death of Jesus occurred about [BC/AD] 30 AD 983 3 0 25.10.2003 6.549 83037 hist: Hiroshima was bombed on Aug 6, [...] 1945]]> 1146 2 0 27.12.2000 6.237 38918 hist: When was Islam founded? 7th century (by Muhammad) 1115 8 4 07.02.2001 4.054 77463 hist: In 1900 democracy scarcely existed. Only [...] countries had something that began to deserve the name six (out of 43 in existence) 1164 8 1 17.12.2000 1.623 40583 hist: When was Buddhism founded by Buddha? 5th century BC 1379 9 7 07.05.2000 2.478 40561 hist: Who was the only scientist to receive Nobel Prize in two different scientific categories? (2001) Marie Curie (chemistry and physics) 1728 11 0 13.01.2002 3.834 95821 hist: What was the world's first mass-produced and mass-marketed product? books 1029 3 0 30.04.2001 6.502 40553 hist: What was Einstein's opinion on the world government? he was an enthusiast of the idea 1293 4 0 01.08.2000 3.361 128831 hist: On Sept. 1, [...], Germany invaded Poland, forcing Britain and France to declare war 1939 730 2 0 13.06.2003 6.267 40485 hist: Who was the most famous student of Plato's Athenian Academy? Aristotle 1115 6 0 27.01.2001 4.800 40432 hist: How many people died in WW1? 8-10 million 1071 1 3 15.03.2001 2.867 148541 hist: Which year did Columbus discover America? 1492 256 1 1 14.06.2003 6.315 57225 hist: What language was spoken in ancient Rome? Latin 1547 5 0 12.12.1999 6.739 81212 hist: As a result of the Great Depression, by 1932 US industrial output had been cut [...](%) in half 1278 3 0 24.08.2000 3.576 64248 hist: Which year did Hitler attack Soviet Union? 1941 983 6 0 03.06.2001 5.499 40610 hist: When did iron age begin? 1000 BC / 10th century BC 1036 2 9 02.05.2001 2.828 40445 hist: What was the main thought of Enlightenment (18th century)? superiority of reason (as a guide to all knowledge) 766 3 3 31.12.2001 4.338 88717 hist: By the Treaty of Versailles [...](country) was forced to acknowledge guilt for WW1 Germany

]]> 1128 1 0 01.01.2001 2.747 40611 hist: When did bronze age begin with the first beaten cooper tools? about 10,000 BC (first smelted tools 3800 BC) 1137 6 0 02.01.2001 5.953 166494 hist: Hinduism probably developed about [...] years ago 5000 (i.e. around 3000 BC) 520 1 1 12.09.2002 3.049 40556 hist: What is the best evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ? reference to his name in hostile Jewish sources (that could otherwise question Christ's existence) 1136 11 0 23.01.2001 5.829 73976 hist: Which year were women given the right to vote in the US? 1920 855 8 0 18.10.2001 4.213 74971 hist: At the outbreak of the first world war, ... independent countries existed in the entire globe around 60 (exactly: 62) 1162 1 5 01.01.2001 2.232 57229 hist: What was the Roman Empire divided into from 395 AD? Western Empire (Latin)]]> 1137 8 0 19.01.2001 2.543 204425 hist: To escape capture by the Soviets Hitler [...] the night of April 30, 1945 committed suicide 196 2 0 03.08.2003 6.315 63364 hist: Which American president met Churchill and Stalin in Teheran (1943) and Yalta (1945)? (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt 915 7 0 11.03.2003 2.942 37846 hist: In 1799 France came under the domination of [...](leader) Napoleon Bonaparte 749 3 0 24.01.2002 4.807 63185 hist: Which English king executed two of his wives (for adultery)? Henry VIII 955 6 0 28.06.2001 6.113 40407 hist: When was the idea of the common European market proposed? 1952 (in France) 1078 9 1 15.03.2001 3.675 40518 hist: Who established the structure of DNA's double helix? Francis Crick and James Watson (1953) 2918 7 0 23.08.2003 5.911 59596 hist: In a Hutu orchestrated effort, 800,000 Tutsis were killed in just 100 days in ...(country) in 1994 Rwanda 979 8 0 19.06.2001 5.926 40582 hist: Who founded Buddhism? Buddha (5th century BC) 1130 8 0 16.01.2001 4.986 97375 hist: WW1 was precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in [...](year) 1914 675 3 0 02.05.2002 4.908 40517 hist: Who showed that the universe is expanding? Edwin Powell Hubble (in the 1920s) 1128 11 0 15.01.2001 1.695 40494 hist: When did western Islamic science decline because of the reaction against rationalistic trends? 12th century AD (eastern Islamic science continued into 15th century) 1390 7 0 14.05.2000 6.636 40535 hist: What school is considered the first university ever? Plato's Academy (4th century BC) 1349 7 0 15.06.2000 6.832 40537 hist: What date is considered the end of the Roman Empire (west)? 476 (German Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus) 333 6 2 09.08.2003 6.111 67270 hist: The First Crusade was launched by ...(office) Urban II in a speech at the Council of Clermont, France, on Nov. 27, 1095 Pope 2018 8 0 08.12.2003 6.646 40493 hist: Who developed the Arabic number system (based on a system first developed in India)? al-Kwarizmi (a Persian; IX-th century AD) 1156 11 0 28.12.2000 2.364 67315 hist: Did the Vikings reach Greenland in the Viking Age (800-1100)? yes

]]> 964 6 0 12.07.2001 4.800 128835 hist: On Sept. 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, forcing Britain and France to [...] declare war 767 2 0 10.01.2002 6.267 73653 hist: When ...(famous leader) was 13 years old, the Greek philosopher Aristotle came to Macedon to tutor him Alexander the Great 666 6 0 01.06.2002 4.523 71785 hist: ...(encyclopedia) set was first published in 1768 in Scotland Britannica 1052 5 0 24.07.2001 6.739 154724 hist: On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked [...] Pearl Harbor 533 3 0 10.09.2002 6.151 60994 hist: How many people were killed in Auschwitz with hydrocyanic gas? 2 million (numbers vary from 1-3 million depending on the source) 1174 7 2 20.12.2000 2.293 109823 hist: The great era of inventive activity started in England in the [...]s. This was the period called the Industrial Revolution 1700 810 3 0 30.11.2001 6.482 40656 hist: Did the US ratify the Metric Convention of 1875? yes

]]> 2531 6 0 24.05.2003 5.379 40412 hist: How many deaths were caused by 1918 epidemic of influenza? 20 m 1151 11 0 28.12.2000 4.986 67294 hist: The negative aspects of Crusades: They hardened ...(religion) attitudes toward Christians Muslim 990 5 0 08.06.2001 4.744 40441 hist: When was the first car built? 1886 (Karl Benz) 310 9 0 27.06.2003 1.427 64658 hist: On June 6, 1944, 150,000 allied troops disembarked at ...(place) to open the western front in WW2 Normandy 1121 6 0 06.02.2001 6.795 67264 hist: The Crusades were Christian military expeditions undertaken in the 11th-14th centuries to recapture the Holy Land from the ... Muslims 1152 6 0 11.12.2000 6.795 40406 hist: How old is the written language? 5,000 years 126 16 7 30.09.2003 3.330 40619 hist: When were steam-boat and steam-locomotive constructed? beginning of 19-th century (1807 - steam-boat; 1825 - steam-railway) 968 2 7 20.06.2001 2.529 140627 hist: In 1947 [...](territory) was partitioned between the new state of Israel and Jordan Palestine 678 2 0 09.04.2002 2.806 73176 hist: Between 1500 and 1870, an estimated ... slaves left Africa 10 million 1059 1 1 11.04.2001 2.703 40482 hist: What is considered the historic cradle of science? ancient Greece (6th century BC; Thales of Miletus) 1243 4 0 08.10.2000 3.361 64640 hist: In 1941, Hitler's three pronged attack against the USSR targeted: Leningrad in the north, Moscow in the middle and ... in the south Stalingrad 666 7 0 25.01.2003 3.360 83040 hist: [...](city) was A-bombed on Aug 6, 1945 Hiroshima 1168 2 0 27.12.2000 6.237 40632 hist: When did Yuri Gagarin orbit the earth in Vostok? 1961 (Apr 12) 1121 8 0 06.09.2001 3.834 77460 hist: One of the most valuable patents ever granted was the one given to Alexander Graham Bell in March 1876 for his invention of the [...] telephone 852 4 0 27.10.2001 6.195 40509 hist: Who discovered X-rays? Wilhelm Roentgen (1895) 1179 10 0 27.10.2001 4.986 74897 hist: China invented paper about ... years before the idea reached the West 1,000 886 6 0 01.09.2001 3.189 40584 hist: Who invented and sold the first calculating machine in 1645? Blaise Pascal 1662 7 0 10.08.1999 3.257 147841 hist: Beginning in [...](country) during the 14th century there was a rebirth of culture and learning referred to as the Renaissance Italy 553 2 0 24.08.2002 6.315 63817 hist: In what language did Copernicus write his works (1473-1543)? Latin 2094 7 0 30.07.2003 6.508 108576 hist: F.D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): president (1933-45) led the US through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the [...] and World War II Great Depression 942 2 0 16.07.2001 6.246 59540 hist: During the four year rule of Pol Pot in Cambodia (1975-1979), ...% of its population was wiped out: 1.7 million people 25% 979 15 0 24.09.2001 4.716 40533 hist: When was the independent state of Israel declared? 1948 1222 10 0 09.10.2000 2.364 40528 hist: How old is education? 5,000 years (it originated in the 3rd millennium BC in Egypt and Sumer) 495 9 0 16.10.2002 5.460 64677 hist: Who won the Vietnam War in 1975? North/communists 1433 5 0 24.03.2000 6.739 40415 hist: Who invented the bulb? Edison 2522 7 0 05.11.2002 5.379 40673 hist: Who was the first to cross the Atlantic by plane (1927)? Charles Lindbergh 1407 5 0 28.12.2000 6.739 40500 hist: Which famous work was put on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1616 by Roman Catholic Church? Nicolaus Copernicus's "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; 1543) 1307 10 0 28.07.2000 1.961 40467 hist: When did the state of Tennessee forbade the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution? the 1920s (exactly: 1925) 1331 11 0 17.07.2000 3.690 63904 hist: On what day did WW2 in Europe end? May 9, 1945 (capitulation of Germany) 1163 6 0 06.12.2000 6.277 40538 hist: What were the reasons for the fall of the ancient Roman Empire? combination of human weaknesses (e.g. war, greed, fight for power, mismanagement, slavery, etc.) 1268 10 0 24.08.2000 1.961 40462 hist: Why could not David Hume get his professorship? because of his atheism 1384 6 0 27.05.2000 6.485 108719 hist: Most Catholics in Northern Ireland consider themselves to be [Irish/British] Irish

]]> 999 2 0 19.06.2001 3.503 79799 hist: The oldest known cave paintings are [...] years old 35,000 192 1 4 27.07.2003 2.393 88862 hist: By 1241, the [...] had conquered all of northern China Mongols 1091 2 0 17.02.2001 6.284 86908 hist: In 476 the Roman Empire was at an end, but the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire lasted another [...] years 1,000 996 1 2 03.06.2001 3.408 211406 hist: On June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was [...] assassinated 88 2 0 09.11.2003 6.315 57239 hist: Who was the first emperor of Rome (27 BC - 14 AD)? Augustus (born as Gaius Octavius aka Octavian) 1005 7 1 03.07.2001 4.536 40551 hist: Was Einstein a brilliant student? he was not 1300 8 0 03.08.2000 4.532 38732 hist: In which year did Austria, Finland and Sweden joined the European Union? 1995 1452 9 0 24.10.2003 5.457 106736 hist: The US gained independence on [...](day of month) July 1776 from England 4 790 3 0 15.07.2002 6.513 76346 hist: The US has gained independence from England on 4 July [...](year) 1776 1112 1 2 06.02.2001 1.663 38086 hist: What is an example of a worldwide-popular invention that came too early and made the pioneer bankrupt? ATM (1962, The People's National Bank) 436 9 1 19.02.2003 3.118 40540 hist: What did Muhammad establish in early 7th century? religion of Islam 1319 9 0 06.07.2000 4.986 69069 hist: Islamic science achieved great sophistication up until around ...(year), and then came almost to a halt 1200 AD 1226 5 0 10.10.2000 4.799 40502 hist: When was the first microscope constructed? about 1600 (probably Hans and Zacharias Jannsen were first to construct it)(Galileo is considered the inventor though) 1481 6 0 24.02.2000 6.795 67269 hist: The First ...(military mission) was launched by Pope Urban II in a speech at the Council of Clermont, France, on Nov. 27, 1095 Crusade 948 5 0 24.07.2001 3.448 145847 hist: In 1982, right-wing [...](nationality) Christian militiamen entered Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and massacred hundreds of Palestinians Lebanese 535 3 1 30.10.2003 4.841 64435 hist: Who won the 6-day war between Israel and Egypt in 1967? Israel (Egypt was humiliated) 1382 5 0 18.05.2000 6.739 73652 hist: When Alexander the Great was 13 years old, the Greek philosopher ...(name) came to Macedon to tutor him Aristotle 627 7 0 01.06.2002 4.246 211402 hist: On June 28, [...], Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated 1914 106 2 0 27.10.2003 6.315 64616 hist: In 1933, Hitler took Germany out of the League of Nations and started an open rearmament in defiance of the ... Versailles Treaty 991 7 0 10.06.2001 6.476 110322 hist: Rabin, [...] and Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize Arafat 960 2 0 14.07.2001 6.268 57240 hist: What event made Augustus the sole ruler of Rome in the year 30 BC? death of Mark Antony (by suicide along with Cleopatra VII) 1763 8 1 30.04.2003 6.657 9667 hist: ... (356-323 BC) conquered almost all the then known world and gave a new direction to history Alexander the Great 744 8 0 22.07.2003 4.165 63723 hist: Who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949? Mao Tse-tung 950 7 0 30.07.2001 3.136 40606 hist: Who was first to notice that human population growth is exponential? Thomas Malthus (in his Essay on the Principle of Population; 1798; rev. 1803) 1552 7 0 18.11.1999 3.257 57269 hist: Which year did Titanic sink? 1912 1528 5 0 19.12.1999 6.739 40452 hist: What is the supreme goal in positive religion of Auguste Comte? progress of humanity 1240 6 0 08.10.2000 6.568 40577 hist: Why did Mendel stop his revolutionary experiments? because of promotion (to abbot of the monastery) 1408 8 0 15.04.2000 2.991 57217 hist: Who was the tutor to the young emperor Nero? Seneca 1373 7 0 02.05.2000 5.791 128832 hist: On Sept. 1, 1939, [...](country) invaded Poland, forcing Britain and France to declare war Germany

]]> 670 4 0 23.04.2002 5.413 109848 hist: Dec 23, [...]: For the first time, the number of adults in the U.S. who use the Internet has surpassed the number of U.S. adults who do not 1999 959 2 0 04.07.2001 6.212 40623 hist: When did the first airplane flight take place? 1903 (Wright brothers) 1262 7 0 23.08.2000 3.933 40453 hist: Who attacked religion as the ideology of the capitalist class? Karl Marx (1818-1883) 1052 9 0 23.04.2001 4.986 40428 hist: Who developed the first film camera? Edison (1891) 1768 7 0 05.04.1999 5.252 40671 hist: Which president held office during the American Civil War in 1861? Abraham Lincoln 1180 7 0 27.04.2003 4.357 64606 hist: On November 19, ..., Soviet forces under Gen. Georgy Zhukov attacked north and south of Stalingrad, encircling the Germans 1942 317 4 2 12.04.2003 4.077 64852 hist: How many times was Richard Nixon elected president? twice (in office from 1969 to 1974) 1059 6 0 15.03.2001 2.956 64243 hist: When was East and West Germany unified (under Helmut Kohl)? 1990 1258 8 1 24.08.2000 4.171 41991 hist: When was computer keyboard first used? 1956 1219 11 0 11.10.2000 3.661 39507 hist: In which year was Unix developed? 1969 1095 4 1 15.03.2001 4.989 42002 hist: Who invented the radio? Tesla (even though Marconi got Nobel Prize for it in 1909) 1136 8 0 01.09.2001 3.834 64201 hist: Who poisoned Claudius (54 AD)? probably his wife (Agrippina) 1072 7 0 12.03.2001 4.800 40426 hist: When was the electric bulb invented? 1879 1103 7 2 28.02.2001 3.883 64129 hist: Which year was the transistor developed? 1947 (W. Shockley) 100 2 6 28.10.2003 2.985 82549 hist: Great Depression: On Oct. 24, [...], the complete collapse of the stock market began 1929 975 2 0 29.06.2001 6.322 40497 hist: Who discovered Milky Way as a collection of stars (rather than a stream of light)? Galileo (1609) 444 5 1 18.05.2003 2.369 29386 hist: Israelite religion was shaped under Hebrew prophet and lawgiver Moses about [...] BC 1300 753 2 0 02.02.2002 6.315 64614 hist: In 1933, Hitler took ...(country) out of the League of Nations and started open rearmament in defiance of the Versailles Treaty Germany

]]> 1140 6 0 19.01.2001 6.795 123529 hist: Tea was used in China as early as [...] years ago 5000 847 2 0 11.11.2001 6.255 40545 hist: Who noticed that despite the egoistic nature of businessmen, they all serve the social cause (even though they seldom meet to talk)? Adam Smith 1276 5 0 25.08.2000 5.896 40469 hist: Who is reputed to be the greatest inventor ever? Thomas Edison (over 1000 patents) 1291 10 0 06.09.2001 4.209 143518 hist: In 387 BC Plato, who had studied under [...], established a school in Athens called the Academy Socrates 650 1 1 21.05.2002 3.094 40408 hist: What two theories revolutionized physics in the 20-th century? quantum theory]]> 859 5 0 15.10.2001 2.605 87299 hist: World War I ([...]-1918), also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers 1914 731 3 0 26.02.2002 6.479 107192 hist: [...] declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914 to start WW1 Austria-Hungary 980 2 0 12.06.2001 6.232 40640 hist: When was surgical removal of kidney stones first practised in ancient India? 5th century BC (Indian physician Susruta) 1105 9 0 04.06.2001 4.122 73928 hist: In ...(country), a bloody military coup of 1973 led by Pinochet toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende Chile 1232 5 0 12.10.2000 6.739 83036 hist: Hiroshima was bombed on [...], 1945 and Nagasaki 3 days later Aug 6 1289 2 0 23.08.2000 4.006 73930 hist: Chile enjoyed democracy until 1973, when a military coup led by ... toppled Salvador Allende (General Augusto) Pinochet 1122 5 0 30.01.2001 6.739 40474 hist: Which French philosopher argued that the adoption of scientific attitude was necessary for social revival? Auguste Comte 1117 11 0 28.01.2001 5.332 40433 hist: How many people died in the course of WW2? 30 million (some sources claim far higher numbers) 923 6 0 02.08.2002 2.288 84572 hist: The successful cloning of Dolly the sheep was announced in [...] 1997 1098 2 1 18.02.2001 4.822 67477 hist: ...(spaceship name) made the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969. M. Collins orbited the Moon in the mother ship Columbia Apollo 11 1332 4 2 09.07.2000 3.374 40657 hist: What is a good example of a long-drawn and costly process of adopting an obviously superior standard? metric system in the US (Metric Convention ratified already in 1875) 1306 7 2 16.07.2000 6.409 74849 hist: Did the bill of rights attached to the constitution of the USA in 1789 guarantee the right to be taught to read and write? no 868 6 0 27.10.2001 3.935 67313 hist: The ...(people) were seafarers from Scandinavia who spread through Europe and the North Atlantic in 800-1100 Vikings 938 6 0 20.07.2001 2.750 64656 hist: On June 6, ..., 150,000 allied troops disembarked at Normandy to open the western front in WW2 1944]]> 1204 7 0 04.11.2000 2.637 111720 hist: On December 12, 1901, Marconi for the first time transmitted and received signals [...](distance) across the Atlantic 636 4 0 19.11.2002 6.653 41842 hist: Which language was Old Testament written in (mostly)? Hebrew 1012 1 4 19.05.2001 3.443 73584 hist: Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). Although he died before the age of ..., he conquered almost all the then known world 33 614 7 0 01.06.2002 2.963 63361 hist: How many times was Franklin Delano Roosevelt elected president? four (1933-1945; he died at the beginning of his fourth term) 1192 10 0 20.11.2000 3.435 40536 hist: When was Plato's Academy established? 4th century BC 1092 6 2 11.03.2001 6.188 40526 hist: Who developed Esperanto? Ludwik Zamenhof (1887) 1385 8 0 21.04.2000 4.986 40507 hist: Who developed the concept of entropy? Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius (German, b. 1822) 1010 7 0 16.10.2001 4.508 40475 hist: Who envisioned a society governed by a scientific elite who would use the methods of science to solve human problems? Auguste Comte 1103 8 0 12.04.2001 5.829 40457 hist: What famous physicist took part in framing the Declaration of Independence (1775)?

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

]]> 1147 7 0 16.05.2001 2.537 73323 hist: What is the first name of pastor King assassinated in Memphis? Martin Luther 1157 5 0 20.12.2000 6.529 80970 hist: In 1980, only 37 countries were democracies (35% of the world's population). By 1998, 117 of the countries were democratic ([...]% of the world's population) 54 896 4 0 10.09.2001 4.253 59539 hist: During the four year rule of Pol Pot in ...(country), 25% of its population was wiped out (1.7 m people) Cambodia 1172 7 0 18.11.2000 4.126 64438 hist: When did Israel gain the control over Gaza? during six-day war (1967) 1128 6 0 18.01.2001 3.958 40572 hist: How old was Niels Bohr when he developed his theory of the atom (1885-1962)? 28 (in 1913) 1076 5 0 31.03.2001 3.901 64839 hist: Does Switzerland belong to the EU (2004)? no 1072 6 0 15.03.2001 6.247 140473 hist: Socrates (469-399 BC) profoundly affected Western philosophy through his influence on [...](student) Plato 652 2 0 22.04.2002 6.315 40668 hist: What was the name of the 1861-1865 war between 11 Southern states and the US Federal government? (American) Civil War 1087 7 0 04.03.2001 5.085 60987 hist: There was an assassination attempt in [...](year) of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican by a member of the Turkish nationalist Grey Wolves 1981]]> 1345 4 0 13.11.2003 5.438 40609 hist: When did Confucius live? 5th century BC 1026 8 0 06.09.2001 4.986 40420 hist: Who invented the phonograph? Thomas Edison 1765 11 0 26.07.2003 6.071 73077 hist: In 1994 ...(auto navigation systems) become available in the US GPS 1054 6 0 01.04.2001 4.166 199304 hist: [...](who) was elected chair of the German Nazi party in 1921 (Adolf) Hitler 223 2 0 03.07.2003 1.470 40597 hist: Who subsidized Karl Marx'es poor family? Engels 1706 7 0 20.06.1999 5.829 115210 hist: In 1938, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed the Munich Pact, which ceded to Germany the [...] (Czechoslovakian) Sudetenland 781 3 0 23.12.2001 4.490 209517 hist: [...](63BC-14AD) was the first Roman emperor Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus) 219 2 0 17.11.2003 6.315 57218 hist: What philosophical trend did Seneca represent (1st century)? stoicism 1375 6 0 01.05.2000 5.953 109822 hist: The great era of inventive activity started in [...](country) in the 1700s as the Industrial Revolution England 956 2 0 08.07.2001 6.257 64480 hist: When was Rome converted from monarchy to republic? around 500 BC (exactly: 509 BC) 779 2 3 23.01.2002 2.570 40499 hist: Did Galileo get his degree as a medical student? no (he dropped out) 1124 6 0 17.01.2001 4.800 40655 hist: When did Noah Webster compile "An American Dictionary of the English Language"? early 19th century (1828) 1253 6 0 19.09.2001 6.151 40478 hist: Who showed that rabies is caused by a transferable agent too small to be seen with a microscope (in 1882)? Louis Pasteur (b. 1822) 990 11 0 17.06.2001 4.641 64671 hist: In the ...(war), the US and the Republic of Vietnam opposed the Viet Cong and the Communist Vietnam Vietnam War 1328 6 0 11.07.2000 6.767 97519 hist: In 1957, [...](country) launches Sputnik - the first artificial earth satellite USSR 754 3 0 08.02.2002 6.498 68339 hist: What was the name of Claudius'es wife who is said to have poisoned him? Agrippina (sister of Caligula) 1090 7 0 01.03.2001 3.540 40617 hist: When were the first 10-storied buildings first built? end of 19th century (in Chicago) 1027 7 0 30.04.2001 3.690 76940 hist: On Oct. 22, 1962, President [...] announced that photographs taken by reconnaissance planes showed that Soviet atomic-missile sites were being built in Cuba Kennedy 748 6 0 27.05.2002 4.529 85479 hist: How long did the Cuban missile crisis last? one week (Oct. 22-28, 1962) 444 4 0 01.05.2003 6.634 90642 hist: [...] and Pakistan became separate states in 1947 India 888 2 0 17.09.2001 6.270 90646 hist: India and Pakistan became separate states when the British granted India its independence in [...] 1947 1039 3 0 23.04.2001 4.811 40430 hist: What famous mathematician was admitted to university at the age of 11? Norbert Wiener 1220 5 0 10.10.2000 6.739 38418 hist: When were submarines first used? WW1 1123 7 0 01.02.2001 2.991 132043 hist: Late in the 2nd millennium BC, the Israelites settled in Palestine. Israelite religion was shaped under Hebrew prophet and lawgiver [...] about 1300 BC Moses 662 3 0 14.04.2002 4.885 40599 hist: What was the equivalent of German nazism in Italy before World War 2? fascism 1117 8 0 19.01.2001 2.991 40580 hist: Where was Confucius born (5th century BC)? in China 1163 4 0 18.12.2000 6.653 40534 hist: Who is considered the first western philosopher? Thales of Miletus (6th century BC) 961 1 2 31.07.2001 3.465 40652 hist: Who discovered penicillin? Alexander Fleming (1929) 1050 7 1 31.03.2001 3.684 40627 hist: When was antipolio vaccine developed? in the 1950s (Jonas Salk, United States, 1954) 1132 9 0 23.01.2001 3.516 73758 hist: Which year did Intel develop the first memory chip (1024 bits of data)? 1970 1081 5 0 22.03.2001 5.995 39379 hist: What did John Bardeen share Nobel Prize twice for? theory of superconductivity (1972)]]> 550 3 1 23.08.2002 5.022 83038 hist: Hiroshima was bombed on Aug 6, 1945 and [...] 3 days later Nagasaki 887 3 0 07.09.2001 6.469 40589 hist: Why did Marx criticize private property? because it makes people work for themselves rather than for the species 1151 6 0 31.03.2001 6.795 73079 hist: What company did Marc Andreessen help found in 1994? Netscape 1069 5 0 15.03.2001 6.739 64512 hist: Who ruled Spain in the years 1936-1975? Generalissimo Francisco Franco (nearly 40 years!) 1366 6 0 30.05.2000 5.087 68285 hist: In 1922, Doctors Banting and Best discovered ... insulin (since then diabetes is no longer considered a terminal illness) 938 6 0 18.07.2001 5.115 64630 hist: In 1939, the League of Nations condemned the USSR for its invasion of Finland and ... expelled it 985 5 0 29.05.2001 4.744 76568 hist: The battle of France in WW2 began June 5, [...] 1940 947 4 0 18.07.2001 5.381 40515 hist: When were special and general theories of relativity announced (by Einstein)? 1905 and 1915 1121 8 0 18.02.2001 4.379 57206 hist: Was Nero a good ruler of Rome (1st century)? only at the beginning of his reign (good advice from Seneca) 1385 6 0 23.05.2000 6.403 108730 hist: On Oct. 12, [...](year), Columbus stepped ashore on an island in what has since become known as the Americas 1492 (aged 41) 210 5 1 12.10.2003 1.802 74752 hist: In 1215, Magna Carta, established the rights of subjects to ..., protecting them from the threat of arbitrary confiscation by the crown (their own) property 1136 5 0 07.01.2001 5.443 40484 hist: Who was the most famous student of Socrates? Plato 1233 8 7 12.08.2003 4.304 64649 hist: Mussolini and Clara Petacci were were ... on April 28, 1945 shot/killed (their bodies were hung in a square in Milan) 1367 7 0 04.10.2003 4.492 38452 hist: When did Socrates live? 5th century BC (469-399 BC) 759 3 1 22.04.2002 3.856 66799 hist: In which year did Ray Tomlinson write the first e-mail program for the Internet? 1971 1077 8 0 31.03.2001 2.987 66247 hist: In 1812, a factory worker Ned Ludd inspires other workers to destroy "labor-saving" machines. ... later comes to refer to anyone who opposes technology Luddite 1286 5 0 18.08.2000 6.739 64615 hist: In 1933, Hitler took Germany out of the ...(organization) and started open rearmament in defiance of the Versailles Treaty

League of Nations

]]> 1319 6 0 22.07.2000 6.795 110292 hist: In [...] the United Nations voted to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states 1947 951 2 0 27.06.2001 6.235 56928 hist: What was the speed of 4004 as compared with Eniac (1971)? comparable 1103 9 0 19.02.2001 4.080 41954 hist: How long did it take to develop all the major applications of the steam engine? over a century 1179 7 0 26.11.2000 3.875 41753 hist: When were armed forces disbanded in Cost Rica? 1948 1400 4 1 24.04.2000 4.433 73823 hist: What was the public reaction to Blaise Pascal's mechanical calculator (1642)? cold/sceptical 961 6 0 08.07.2001 4.064 64769 hist: In which country was the Kurdish separatist movement most active? Iraq (uprisings: 1922, 1974, 1988 and 1991) 1158 4 0 20.12.2000 6.653 64613 hist: In 1933, ...(leader) took Germany out of the League of Nations and started open rearmament in defiance of the Versailles Treaty Hitler 1055 6 0 17.03.2001 6.795 124568 hist: On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into Democratic National Committee headquarters in the [...] office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C. Watergate 554 4 0 17.08.2002 5.515 127189 hist: Epicureanism was the philosophy taught by [...](341-270 BC) Epicurus 708 1 2 19.03.2002 2.371 125290 hist: On Feb. 1, 1979, [...](leader) flew back to a tumultuous welcome in Tehran after 15 years in exile Khomeini 562 3 0 05.10.2002 6.521 40417 hist: When was the difference machine II by Charles Babbage designed? mid 19-th century (exactly: 1847) 1287 11 0 17.08.2000 1.521 41992 hist: When was the first integrated circuit developed? 1959 906 10 4 01.09.2001 1.482 104129 hist: When Genghis Khan died, [...] armies were poised to conquer Hungary, which they would have accomplished had not their leader died Mongol 669 3 0 09.05.2002 6.517 67281 hist: In 476 [...](name) was deposed by the barbarian leader Odoacer. The Roman Empire was at an end Romulus Augustulus 897 3 1 05.09.2001 3.345 86911 hist: In 476 the Roman Empire was at an end, but the [...] Empire lasted another 1,000 years Eastern/Byzantine 990 3 0 10.06.2001 6.475 31190 hist: Which year was Hilter born? 1889 1318 4 0 27.07.2000 4.658 204423 hist: The Soviets attacked Berlin on [...] 21, 1945 April 198 2 0 05.08.2003 6.315 40413 hist: When did the great epidemic of influenza take place (20 m deaths)? 1918 1030 4 0 19.05.2001 4.658 147187 hist: In 1948, the European Recovery Program (ERP) went into effect (popularly known as the [...]) Marshall Plan (after George Marshall; 1880-1959) 563 2 0 05.08.2002 6.315 40505 hist: How many years had passed between his voyage aboard Beagle and the publication of "On the Origin of Species" by Darwin? 20 (On the Origin of Species was published in 1859) 1333 8 9 13.06.2000 4.795 45801 hist: Two countries in Africa never were colonies. The first is ..., a monarchy until 1974. The other is Liberia Ethiopia 1046 7 0 27.10.2003 5.375 64652 hist: Mussolini and Clara Petacci were captured by Italian partisans and shot on April 28, 1945 and their bodies were ... in a public square in Milan hung 1078 6 0 04.03.2001 5.635 64687 hist: Communist leader Ho Chi Minh organized resistance against the ... and in 1945 declared Vietnam an independent republic Japanese 1221 1 4 12.10.2000 4.360 64841 polit: Does Turkey belong to the EU (2001)? no (its application was rejected in 1989 due to human rights violations) 1114 6 0 01.02.2001 5.499 143516 hist: In 387 BC Plato established a school in Athens called [...] the Academy 634 2 0 27.05.2002 6.315 41745 hist: How many people were killed in the war in Bosnia 1991-1993? 250,000 1021 2 8 16.05.2001 3.470 63715 hist: Which French president helped the formation of independent Algeria in 1962? Charles de Gaulle 1293 6 0 23.07.2000 5.021 99070 hist: Lenin's death in January 1924 set off a succession struggle. Stalin eventually outwitted [...](Lenin's natural successor) Trotsky 1061 2 0 26.03.2001 6.251 63284 hist: How many wars were there between India and Pakistan (2000)? three 1121 8 2 23.01.2001 2.256 87902 hist: Queen [...] (1819-1901) became queen upon the death of her uncle William IV in 1837 Victoria]]> 1136 2 0 25.12.2000 6.266 108828 hist: The U.S.S.R. legally [...] on Dec. 31, 1991 ceased to exist 958 2 0 07.05.2003 6.285 63714 hist: Who was elected the first president of French Fifth Republic in 1958? Charles de Gaulle 847 8 0 28.10.2001 2.458 67263 hist: The Crusades were Christian military expeditions undertaken in the 11th-13th century to recapture the ... from the Muslims Holy Land 943 5 0 18.07.2001 4.744 125262 hist: On December 12, [...](year), Marconi transmitted and received radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean 1901 586 4 0 19.07.2002 3.785 105589 hist: Battle of [...] (31 BC): naval battle on the coast of Greece, where Octavian, by his victory over Mark Antony, became the master of the Roman world Actium 713 3 0 03.03.2002 4.898 105591 hist: Battle of Actium (31 BC) was the naval battle where Octavian, by his decisive victory over [...], became the undisputed master of the Roman world Mark Antony]]> 973 2 0 11.06.2001 6.243 64642 hist: Where is Pearl Harbor located (US Pacific fleet lost 18 ships on Dec 7, 1941)? Hawaii 1098 6 0 09.03.2001 4.002 134342 hist: Crusade: any of a series of military expeditions to take possession of the Holy City of [...] Jerusalem 713 3 0 07.03.2002 6.452 76203 hist: A great era of inventive activity started in England in the 1700s. This was the period called the ... Industrial Revolution (leading to the modern factory system) 1608 5 0 30.07.2003 5.298 72505 hist: In 1980, the voters gave Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) a strong victory, and Rhodesia became ...(state) Zimbabwe 1233 5 0 19.10.2000 6.739 64513 hist: Which countries backed Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)? Germany and Italy 1059 6 0 28.04.2001 6.795 100904 hist: When Brezhnev died in [...](year) the plight of the U.S.S.R. had reached crisis proportions 1982 826 3 0 29.11.2001 6.493 8698 hist: In 1979 Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston introduced ...(the first killer app) VisiCalc ("visible calculator") 962 6 0 27.06.2001 2.985 40439 hist: What was the cumulative growth of global economy in the industrial era of 1870-1910? 400% (i.e. 3.5% per annum) 1494 12 0 22.01.2000 1.694 63718 hist: Who edited the first Russian newspaper (early 18-th century)? Peter the Great 1161 6 0 10.12.2000 3.528 41465 hist: In 1980, the voters gave ZANU a strong victory over ZAPU, and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe with ...(leader) as prime minister (Robert) Mugabe 1236 5 0 28.09.2000 4.744 158511 hist: [...] is an ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq settled before 5000 B.C. Mesopotamia]]> 580 2 0 29.07.2002 5.533 73175 hist: Between 1500 and ...(end of the slavery era), an estimated 10 million slaves left Africa 1870 816 1 3 22.11.2001 3.579 40562 hist: What did Marie Curie die of? leukemia 2222 10 0 23.08.2003 4.951 40513 hist: For how many years did Avogadro's theory on forming molecules from atoms remain unrecognized? almost sixty (until 1860) 1365 11 0 06.06.2000 3.690 60764 hist: In the summer of ..., the rulers of Europe, after decade of rising tensions, marched their peoples to WW1 1914 1064 3 1 18.03.2001 4.133 208639 hist: The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) continued until [...](year) 1453 179 2 0 14.08.2003 6.315 191867 hist: On [...], 1945 Truman, Churchill, and Stalin announced that General Keitel had surrendered unconditionally the day before May 8 182 2 2 08.08.2003 3.193 40563 hist: What were Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for? work on artificial radioactivity (irradiation of aluminum by alpha particles) 1022 11 0 14.05.2001 1.521 63716 hist: Which French president vetoed British entry to the Common European Market in 1967? Charles de Gaulle 952 10 0 29.07.2001 5.982 63720 hist: Which tsar promoted secular education and banned men under 30 from becoming monks? Peter the Great 831 9 0 05.04.2002 3.590 73929 hist: Chile enjoyed one of the longest-lasting democracies in Latin America until ...(year), when a bloody military coup toppled President Salvador Allende 1973 1202 1 3 19.11.2000 2.777 73440 hist: The success of the ECSC prompted the 6 nations to sign the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957. The ..., was formed on Jan. 1, 1958 EEC (or Common Market) 915 9 1 01.09.2001 3.780 40576 hist: Why did Max Born lose his professorship when Hitler came to power? because of his Jewish origin 968 8 0 26.06.2001 2.991 143517 hist: In 387 BC Plato, who had studied under Socrates, established a school in [...](city) called the Academy Athens 591 2 0 05.07.2002 6.315 125833 hist: Eisenhower had to form the largest invasion fleet in history for an amphibious landing on the coast of [...](country)(June 6, 1944) France 811 2 0 02.12.2001 5.066 39737 hist: What was the annual growth in armament costs in the years 1980-86 (Reagan's era)? 6% 1143 6 0 17.01.2001 3.439 40504 hist: When did people realize that the universe had to be far older than the 6,000 years computed by chronologers from the Book of Genesis? 18th century (owing to cosmological theories of Immanuel Kant and Laplace) 1126 1 4 23.01.2001 1.570 74265 hist: The spark for WW1 was the murder, in June ...(year), in Sarajevo, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, of the heir to the throne 1914 982 5 0 16.06.2001 6.319 125263 hist: On December 12, 1901, [...](person) transmitted and received signals across the Atlantic Ocean Marconi 806 2 0 01.12.2001 6.268 40637 hist: What script was used in Babylon? cuneiform]]> 714 7 1 20.02.2002 5.155 86034 hist: Japan's surrender in WW2 came onboard the battleship Missouri on [...](month) 2, 1945 Sep 1205 2 0 16.11.2000 6.204 60979 hist: Freetown was settled in the 1780s by freed slaves who mingled with the indigenous population to produce a new society known as Sierra Leone ... Creole 1253 5 0 22.09.2000 4.799 75913 hist: Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia--venerate ... (1783-1830) as their liberator from the rule of Spain Simon Bolivar 1161 5 0 18.12.2000 5.191 41828 hist: What is Bhuddism based on? teachings of Bhudda (VI century AD) 1468 5 1 01.10.2001 1.961 83090 hist: X rays were discovered by [...] of Germany in 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 943 2 0 10.07.2001 6.231 40463 hist: Whose positive religion strived for progress of humanity? Auguste Comte 1462 9 0 13.03.2001 5.829 64650 hist: Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were captured by Italian partisans at Lake Como, they were shot on April 28, ... 1945]]> 1130 6 0 17.01.2001 6.247 63362 hist: When did Franklin Delano Roosevelet die? 1945 (three weeks before Germany's surrender) 1151 9 0 25.09.2001 6.871 40649 hist: Why did homeopathy result in little harm to patients (18th and 19th century)? because of the rule that the prescribed drug should be given in small amounts 1175 8 0 31.05.2001 4.209 74295 hist: The construction of a sea-level Panama canal was begun in 1882. Mismanagement, dishonesty, and terrible epidemics of disease in Panama forced the French company into ... in 1889 bankruptcy 1353 5 0 15.06.2000 4.799 116568 hist: The Great Depression was dramatically announced by the collapse of the [...], on Friday, Oct. 24, 1929

American stock market

]]> 1131 2 0 16.11.2003 6.209 40662 hist: How did Antoine Laurent Lavoisier die on May 8, 1794? execution by guillotine (during the Reign of Terror in France) 941 7 2 05.08.2002 2.924 40472 hist: How long did The Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte wait for translation to English? 60 years! 1035 12 0 17.09.2001 2.868 38701 hist: In October [...], in Reykjavík, Reagan came close to embracing Gorbachev's vision of eliminating nuclear weapons by 2000, but no agreement was reached because he refused to abandon SDI 1986 929 2 1 28.07.2001 3.467 107193 hist: Austria-Hungary declared war on [...] on July 28, 1914 Serbia 984 2 0 14.06.2001 6.232 94918 hist: WW1 was precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis [...] of Austria-Hungary by in 1914 Ferdinand 222 5 1 26.09.2003 4.105 88719 hist: By the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was forced to acknowledge guilt for [...] WW1 1139 2 0 17.01.2001 6.277 70776 hist: The first movie with sound, "Jazz Singer", premiered in .... 1926 1063 6 1 02.04.2001 6.243 90722 hist: In [...](year) Gorbachev received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his striking achievements in international relations 1990 811 3 0 28.11.2001 5.439 67478 hist: Apollo 11 made the first manned lunar landing on July 20, .... 1969 979 5 0 13.06.2001 4.744 74303 1960 - 18 nations in African gained independence
... - 16 nations in communist block]]> 1991 (14 soviet republics as well as Croatia and Slovenia) 1066 5 0 01.04.2001 5.849 40476 hist: How many inventions did Edison patent? about 1000 (still a record in 2001) 1159 9 0 06.05.2001 5.829 74237 hist: For centuries, the annual rate of economic growth was zero. From about ..., this iron law of history was broken 1750 400 10 0 05.01.2003 3.053 212186 hist: On September 4, [...], Romulus Augustus (d. after 511) was compelled to abdicate by Odoacer 476 100 2 0 26.10.2003 6.315 110063 hist: The Battle of Britain (1940) was the first [...] defeat in WW2 German 830 2 0 02.12.2001 6.237 110065 hist: The [...] was the first German defeat in WW2 Battle of Britain (1940) 838 1 2 22.11.2001 1.555 57224 hist: What are the three epochs of the ancient Rome? republic (509 BC - 31 BC)
empire (31 BC - 476 AD)]]> 100 9 0 26.10.2003 4.286 57203 hist: Who pushed Nero to power? Agrippina (his mother) 1221 7 0 02.10.2000 6.832 75492 hist: On June 25, ..., the armed forces of Communist North Korea smashed across the 38th parallel in an invasion of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) 1950 1315 5 0 13.07.2000 4.600 87263 hist: [...](who) changed his party's name to National Socialist German Workers' party, abbreviated to Nazi (1920) Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) 1014 4 0 28.10.2002 6.640 63092 hist: When did Paul Ehrlich develop a chemotherapy against syphilis? 1909 1319 1 1 17.07.2000 1.760 40411 hist: Whose famous Master's Thesis was nearly rejected? Arrhenius'es (theory of dissociation) 1847 7 0 13.01.1999 4.365 40622 hist: When was petroleum industry born? mid 19-th century 1055 7 0 22.03.2001 3.190 41746 hist: What was the CIA's aid to Afghan rebels during the war with the Soviets? $3 bn (total) 1116 6 0 04.02.2001 4.800 74548 hist: In 1945 Croatia was rejoined with ..., which became a people's republic ruled by Josip Broz Tito (a Croat) Yugoslavia 992 6 0 16.06.2001 6.831 162622 hist: Hammurabi, the king of Babylonia (18th century BC), developed one of the earliest systematic collections of [...]: the Code of Hammurabi laws 554 2 0 12.08.2002 4.460 64440 hist: When did Israel gain the control over Arab Jerusalem? during six-day war (1967) 1122 6 0 04.02.2001 5.953 40470 hist: Who invented alkaline storage battery? Edison 1478 10 0 11.02.2000 4.813 67296 hist: The negative aspects of Crusades: They hardened Muslim attitudes toward Christians, raised doubts about ...'s will, the church's authority, and the role of the papacy God 1409 5 0 19.04.2000 6.739 139954 hist: The first president of the United States to resign from office was [...] Richard M. Nixon (1974) 514 3 0 13.10.2002 6.549 57216 hist: Who has lavishly rebuilt Rome after the great fire of 64 AD? Nero]]> 2852 7 0 12.11.2003 6.655 57204 hist: What was the name of Nero's mother? Agrippina (sister of Caligula) 1351 8 0 09.10.2003 4.884 208641 hist: The Eastern Roman Empire ([...] Empire) continued until 1453 Byzantine 135 2 0 10.10.2003 6.315 57202 hist: In which century did Nero rule? 1-st (ruled 54-68) 1146 7 0 30.07.2003 3.194 40487 hist: When did Alexandria in Egypt replace Athens as the center of science? 4th century BC 905 1 3 28.08.2001 3.960 108724 hist: In Northern Ireland, most Protestants are [Nationalist/Unionist] in political outlook Unionist 680 3 0 18.04.2002 6.481 73193 hist: Which countries joined the European Union in 1995? Austria, Finland and Sweden 929 2 2 28.08.2001 2.294 40669 hist: What was the world's greatest sustained combat before WW1? (American) Civil War (1861-1865) 1281 5 0 17.08.2000 4.744 67259 hist: The ... were Christian military expeditions undertaken in the 11th-14th century to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims Crusades 1034 5 0 01.05.2001 6.739 64426 hist: In 1956, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company. His action provoked an ... invasion of the Sinai Peninsula Israeli 1307 6 0 25.07.2000 6.247 67314 hist: The Vikings were seafarers from ...(lands) who spread through Europe and the North Atlantic in 800-1100 Scandinavia 1088 6 0 16.03.2001 5.640 40530 hist: When was education born? 3rd millennium BC (Egypt and Sumer) 1108 5 0 23.01.2001 4.744 64836 hist: Does Sweden belong to the EU (1999)? yes (it joined in 1995) 445 6 0 15.11.2002 6.683 214667
]]> Poland 97 1 0 30.10.2003 3.000 67302 hist: What major battle stopped the progress of Teutonic Knights to the east along the Baltic coast? Battle of Tannenberg (against Polish-Lithuenian forces)(July 15, 1410) 1093 5 0 11.03.2001 6.739 40595 hist: Which great philosopher died in 1883 in poor health and in poverty, shortly after losing his wife and his daughter? Karl Marx 1609 7 0 21.09.1999 3.257 77380 hist: The precise molecular structure of DNA was determined in [...](year) by James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick 1953 876 1 1 27.10.2001 2.847 81459 hist: As devised by the French Academy of Sciences in 1790s, the basic unit of the [...] system was the meter metric 1313 2 0 25.07.2000 6.321 167153 hist: The first railway was opened for public use in [...](year) 1825 98 3 0 29.10.2003 6.549 212304 hist: 1990-1991, [...](b. 1931) was President of the Soviet Union until its dismantlement Mikhail Gorbachev]]> 101 2 0 26.10.2003 6.315 74932 hist: Years before ...(institution) was officially abolished in Venezuela, Simon Bolivar liberated his own slaves slavery 1250 5 0 17.09.2000 6.571 97520 hist: 1957: USSR launches Sputnik, the first [...] artificial earth satellite 1227 4 0 18.11.2002 6.659 201244 hist: [...] was the first Republican to become US president Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 230 2 0 28.06.2003 1.470 64708 hist: During Vietnam War, ...(substance) was used to clear the jungle, depriving the Viet Cong of cover as well as rice Agent Orange 1047 6 0 09.10.2001 6.795 68340 hist: What was the name of Caligula's sister who married Claudius? Agrippina 1002 7 0 26.05.2001 4.795 64655 hist: On ... 6, 1944, 150,000 allied troops disembarked at Normandy to open the western front in WW2 June 1007 7 0 24.05.2001 5.928 90645 hist: India and Pakistan became separate states when the British granted India [...] in 1947 independence 776 3 0 06.01.2002 6.490 82194 hist: India and Pakistan became separate states when the British granted [...] its independence in 1947 India 902 2 0 17.09.2001 6.270 86799 hist: Leibnitz published his [...] methods in 1684, and was immediately accused of plagiarism by Newton calculus 1044 2 1 25.04.2001 3.764 64420 hist: In 1956, President ... nationalized the Suez Canal Company Nasser 1126 6 0 16.01.2001 5.567 59165 hist: The Great Depression and the Republicans' inability to take action against it swept the Democratic Party back to power in 1932 under the candidacy of [...] Franklin D. Roosevelt 1155 2 0 19.01.2001 6.237 64694 hist: ... conference in 1954 divided Vietnam into communist north and the southern part Geneva 1029 6 0 02.05.2001 3.958 73054 hist: Prohibition in the US was enacted by 18th Amendment in 1919, and abolished in ... by 21st 1933 1035 10 0 26.04.2003 4.232 64767 hist: With the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after WW1, ...(country) agreed to the establishment of an independent Kurdistan under the Treaty of Sevres (1920) Turkey 1044 6 0 29.04.2001 4.800 73085 hist: In ...(year), Microsoft, the unofficial partnership of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, achieves sales of $16,000 1975 1352 6 0 14.08.2002 6.298 64766 hist: With the breakup of the Ottoman Empire after ...(war), Turkey agreed to the establishment of an independent Kurdistan under the Treaty of Sevres. WW1 1148 6 0 29.12.2000 4.800 86329 hist: Crowning the Magellan mission, the Victoria dropped anchor in the harbor of Seville on Sept. 9, [...] 1522 1154 2 0 26.12.2000 6.204 40480 hist: What did Ivan Petrovich Pavlov get Nobel Prize for in 1904? his work on digestion (i.e. not on conditioning) 836 2 1 09.11.2001 2.097 73146 hist: In 1971, the first speech-recognition software, Hearsay, was developed in ...(country) India 1165 5 0 12.12.2000 6.739 73155 hist: In 1953 IBM manufactured its model 650 (the first mass-produced computer), and sold 1500 units before taking it off the market in ...(year) 1969 1432 4 0 15.03.2000 5.425 64685 hist: Communist leader Ho Chi Minh organized resistance against the Japanese and in 1945 declared ...(country) an independent republic Vietnam 1035 6 0 17.04.2001 6.795 64639 hist: In 1941, Hitler's three pronged attack against the USSR targeted: Leningrad in the north, ... in the middle and Stalingrad in the south Moscow 1037 6 0 27.04.2001 6.795 73088 hist: In 1854 ...(name) published his thoughts on symbolic logic, which decades later will form the basis of computer science applications George Boole 1131 5 0 19.01.2001 5.521 39734 hist: What was the value of oil burnt in Kuwaiti oil-fields in one month (lit by Saddam during the Gulf War 1991)? 3 bn dollars 974 5 0 25.07.2001 3.901 64703 hist: In Aug 1964, a US destroyer had a minor clash with North Vietnamese in the ... The Congress accepted military retaliation Gulf of Tonkin 1130 5 0 18.01.2001 3.901 120317 hist: 1,200 BC: [...] is the most widely and longest used currency in history Cowrie Shells 755 2 1 18.01.2002 1.936 64629 hist: In 1939, the League of Nations condemned the USSR for its invasion of ... and expelled it Finland 908 6 0 13.09.2001 4.800 64627 hist: In 1939, the ...(organization) condemned the USSR for its invasion of Finland and expelled it

League of Nations

]]> 1315 5 0 04.08.2000 6.739 66278 hist: In 1972, Atari released the first ...: Pong arcade game 995 2 1 05.06.2001 2.348 40418 hist: Are there many examples of pioneers being taken over by the "fast second" in the history of invention? hundreds 1433 7 0 30.03.2000 5.252 57220 hist: How did Claudius die (54 AD)? he was poisoned (probably by his wife Agrippina) 839 9 0 31.10.2001 5.298 40442 hist: What was the speed of the first car (built by Karl Benz in 1886)? 13 km/h 804 10 0 11.04.2002 1.522 40642 hist: Who was first to develop immunization against smallpox (long before E.Jenner)? ancient Chinese (3rd century BC) 1079 7 0 19.03.2001 4.145 128830 hist: On [...](day), 1939, Germany invaded Poland, forcing Britain and France to declare war Sept. 1 767 2 0 22.01.2002 6.267 75755 hist: Kosovo is held by many Serbs to be the religious heart of Eastern ... Orthodox (Christian) Serbia 1017 4 1 14.05.2001 5.291 63725 hist: What happened to the first wife of Mao Tse-tung? she was executed (by Chinese Nationalists in 1930; 10 years after marriage with Mao) 1134 9 0 30.01.2001 2.346 85177 hist: In 476 Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the barbarian leader [...]. The Roman Empire was at an end Odoacer 444 4 0 09.08.2003 5.805 211788 hist: On July 23, 1914 Austria presented an ultimatum to Serbia. On July 28, [...] it declared war on Serbia 1914 124 2 0 11.10.2003 1.470 40437 hist: What were the two main factors of scientific revival in Renaissance? - inventing print (15-th century)]]> 991 7 0 08.06.2001 4.124 73501 hist: Two countries in Africa never were colonies. The first is the ancient country of Ethiopia. The second is ... Liberia 1057 7 0 03.04.2001 4.501 40423 hist: Who proposed a computer with a program kept in memory? John von Neumann 1650 10 0 04.08.2001 5.829 63713 hist: What sentence did the Vichy Government court pass on Charles de Gaulle for his call to resist German occupation (1940)? death (in absentia)(de Gaulle fled to London) 1178 6 0 06.12.2000 5.021 66188 hist: The Vikings founded the short-lived North American colony of Vinland in the early ... century. 11th 1376 6 0 20.05.2000 4.074 64635 hist: By May 1941, the Germans and their Axis allies dominated almost all of the non-Soviet ... continent European 1353 5 0 07.06.2000 6.739 74753 hist: Magna Carta (1215) established the rights of subjects to their own property, protecting them from the threat of arbitrary ... by the crown confiscation 1244 5 0 24.09.2000 5.443 40578 hist: Did Mendel ever realize the importance of his findings? no (he died 14 years before Hugo De Vries rediscovered his writings in 1900) 1623 7 0 22.09.1999 1.961 40481 hist: Which school of psychology did Pavlov criticize severely: French, German, or American? all of them 1179 11 0 31.03.2001 5.982 73812 hist: In 1918 Croatia was proclaimed independent from Hungary and Austria, and it entered into a union: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The new state was renamed ... in 1929, with King Alexander Yugoslavia 1337 5 0 16.07.2000 5.896 40559 hist: Who discovered the structure of protein alpha-helix? Linus Pauling (early 1950s) 1176 9 0 14.12.2000 3.690 110982 hist: Factors of the Great Depression: An [...] distribution of incomes limited the consumer goods market unequal 952 2 0 21.07.2001 6.212 74279 hist: In 1914, the rulers of Europe, after a ...(period) of huge economic progress and a decade of rising tensions, started WW1 century 741 2 3 30.01.2002 3.487 113901 hist: Treaty of Versailles: Poland, [...] and Finland were formed from land lost by Russia the Baltics (i.e. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) 676 2 3 07.04.2002 2.212 110278 hist: Responding to growing anti-Semitism in [...](area) in the 19th century, Jews founded Zionism to re-create their homeland in Palestine Europe 799 3 1 06.12.2001 4.701 40587 hist: Who developed the idea of a stored program computer? John von Neumann (1945) 2799 7 0 27.07.2003 5.911 64631 hist: During WW2, by May ..., the Germans and their Axis allies dominated almost all of the non-Soviet European continent 1941 804 2 4 23.12.2001 2.937 74233 hist: China was printing by the 8th century, and using a form of movable type by the ...th 11 (four centuries before J. Gutenberg invented the cast-metal version) 915 9 3 27.08.2001 2.632 82548 hist: Great [...]: On Oct. 24, 1929, the complete collapse of the stock market began. October 29 extended the damage Depression 817 2 1 28.11.2001 4.106 65767 hist: Who got a Nobel Prize for sending radio signals over the Atlantic in 1901? Marconi (in 1909)(even though it was Tesla who invented the radio) 926 7 1 23.07.2001 1.779 190903 hist: In 1099 the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Muslims. In [...] Saladin took it back 1187 118 2 1 12.10.2003 1.962