There are so many significant world events that there's bound to be some crossover. Taking a pair of events, can you name the year the events occurred? Take our quiz to find out!
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Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech; The Assassination of JFK
1960
1965
1963
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Attack on Pearl Harbor; Siege of Tobruk in North Africa leads to Hitler's first major defeat on land
1941
1942
1939
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Woodstock; the Apollo moon landing
1969
1975
1961
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The signing of the Magna Carta; The siege of Beijing by the Mongols and Genghis Khan
1301
1215
1461
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The opening of the first McDonalds; the arrival of the first wave of Auschwitz prisoners
1940
1955
1945
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The trial for the Watergate scandal; the release of Pink Floyd's iconic "Dark Side of the Moon"
1965
1981
1973
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The sinking of the RMS Titanic; Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the U.S.
1912
1920
1918
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The death of Princess Diana; The death of Mother Teresa
1997
1991
1988
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The assassination of Abe Lincoln; the formation of the Secret Service
1874
1865
1880
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Tiananmen Square Massacre; Fall of the Berlin Wall
1971
1993
1989
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Construction of the Empire State Building; the Independence of South Africa
1931
1945
1923
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Crash of the Hindenburg; release of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, the first Disney animated feature-length film
1948
1937
1942
You're not the best when it comes to remembering dates or time periods that major events occurred during - but that's no big deal! Some of these were pretty tricky, and maybe you'd fare better with different events thrown in the mix!
C+, Hazy Historian
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You may not have achieved a perfect score here, but you clearly know your stuff about the most famous dates in history. And hey, maybe with a few changes, and a few events changed out for other events, you'd have fared even better!
B+, Hip Historian
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You're a true historian - you know the years that all the events happened! All of them! From large to small, none of them escape your deductive reasoning when it comes to eventful time periods. Great work!
A+, Master Historian
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Right!
1
Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech; The Assassination of JFK
1960
1965
1963
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Siege of Tobruk in North Africa leads to Hitler's first major defeat on land
1941
1942
1939
3
Woodstock; the Apollo moon landing
1969
1975
1961
4
The signing of the Magna Carta; The siege of Beijing by the Mongols and Genghis Khan
1301
1215
1461
5
The opening of the first McDonalds; the arrival of the first wave of Auschwitz prisoners
1940
1955
1945
6
The trial for the Watergate scandal; the release of Pink Floyd's iconic "Dark Side of the Moon"
1965
1981
1973
7
The sinking of the RMS Titanic; Woodrow Wilson is elected 28th president of the U.S.
1912
1920
1918
8
The death of Princess Diana; The death of Mother Teresa
1997
1991
1988
9
The assassination of Abe Lincoln; the formation of the Secret Service
1874
1865
1880
10
Tiananmen Square Massacre; Fall of the Berlin Wall
1971
1993
1989
11
Construction of the Empire State Building; the Independence of South Africa
1931
1945
1923
12
Crash of the Hindenburg; release of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, the first Disney animated feature-length film
1948
1937
1942
