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Quiz

1 Which name is rapper Sean Combs

better known by?

2 What was the name of the group Justin Timberlake used to be part of?

3 Which musical legend is Jay-Z

married to?

4 What was the name of the rock

band formed by Jimmy Page?

5 How many Grammys does John

Legend have?

History

1199 King John of England was crowned in Westminster Abbey nearly two months after the death of his brother, Richard I ("The LionHearted").

1861 Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, ruled that President Abraham Lincoln lacked the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (Lincoln disregarded the ruling).

1941 the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1400 lives.

1994 Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.

1995 actor Christopher Reeve was left paralyzed when he was thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Virginia. 1998 Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot. (Fortier was freed in January 2006.)