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Quiz

1 What Disney film featured the vultures Buzzie, Flaps, Ziggy, and Dizzy, whose voices were based on the Beatles?

2 Found in Boston, what is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium that is still active today?

3 Shoes were infamously thrown at George W. Bush during a 2008 press conference in what country?

4 What “line” marks the border of

North and South Korea?

5 Who was the only US President to

serve in World War I?

History

1842 Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.

1916 CBS newsman Walter Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri.

1922 The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt.

1956 Soviet troopsmoved in to crush the Hungarian Revolution.

1979 the Iran hostage crisis began as militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran, seizing its occupants; for some of them, it was the start of 444 days of captivity.

1980 Republican Ronald Reagan won the White House as he defeated President Jimmy Carter by a strong margin.

1985 To the shock and dismay of U-S officials, Soviet defector Vitaly Yurchenko announced he was returning to the Soviet Union, charging he had been kidnapped by the C-I-A.

1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a rightwing Israeli minutes after attending a festive peace rally.

2001 NBC’S Thewestwing took eight honors at the twice-delayed Emmy Awards, including best dramatic series; HBO’S Sexandthe City won best comedy series.

2008 Democrat Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States, defeating Republican John Mccain.

2010 Australian airline Qantas grounded all six of its Airbus A380 superjumbo jets after one of them blew out an engine over Indonesia; the plane made a safe emergency return to Singapore with 469 people aboard. An Aerocaribbean ATR 72 crashed in a mountainous area of Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.

2019 Iran broke further away from the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers by doubling the number of advanced centrifuges it operated.