Famous Dates

Question 1

Oct 31, 1517

Answer 1

Start of Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther posts 95 Theses

Question 2

Nov 11, 1620

Answer 2

Signing of the Mayflower Compact establishing Plymouth Colony

Question 3

Oct 1, 1949

Answer 3

People’s Rep of China founded

Question 4

June 6, 1944

Answer 4

D Day

Question 5

Aug 13, 1521

Answer 5

Spain conquers the Aztec Empire

Question 6

May 10, 1865

Answer 6

Civil War ends

Question 7

May 4, 1607

Answer 7

Establishment of Jamestown Colony in Virginia, 1st permanent British settlement

Question 8

Oct 4, 1957

Answer 8

Sputnik 1 launched

Question 9

Dec 26, 1991

Answer 9

USSR dissolved. Lasted 69 years.

Question 10

July 20, 1969

Answer 10

Apollo 11 moon landing

Question 11

Dec 7, 1903

Answer 11

First flight by Wright Bros at Kitty Hawk

Question 12

Aug 15, 1947

Answer 12

Indian independence

Question 13

May 20, 1927

Answer 13

Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris

Question 14

April 12, 1861

Answer 14

Civil War starts

Question 15

June 28, 1914

Answer 15

Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 16

Nov 22, 1963

Answer 16

Kennedy assassination

Question 17

Dec 30, 1922

Answer 17

USSR founded

Question 18

Oct 22, 1454

Answer 18

Approximate date of first printed Gutenberg Bible

Question 19

Oct 24, 1929

Answer 19

Great Depression stock market crash - Black Tuesday

Question 20

April 12, 1961

Answer 20

Yuri Gagarin first space flight on Vostok 1

Question 21

May 10, 1869

Answer 21

First Transcontinental Railroad (aka the Pacific Railroad) completed at Promontory Summit, UT - Built by Union Pacific y Central Pacific Railroad Companies

Question 22

Dec 7, 1941

Answer 22

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 23

July 14, 1789

Answer 23

Storming of the Bastille

Question 24

May 1, 1948

Answer 24

Israel founded

Question 25

Nov 9, 1989

Answer 25

Fall of Berlin Wall