The Day After Christmas Quiz
The Day After Christmas
Can you name the historical events that occurred on the 26th of December?
By stormyclouds
| Events | Answers |
|---|---|
| This couple announce the discovery of radium in 1898 | |
| This British Prime Minister became the first to address US Congress in 1941 | |
| This natural disaster killed 250,000 people in South East Asia in 2004 | |
| This US President died in 2006 | |
| This country's parliament voted itself out of existence in 1991 | |
| In 1620 the Pilgrims reached land which would eventually become this state | |
| This large US city was buried under 25.8 inches of snow in 1947, causing 80 deaths | |
| The first of these annual African-American celebrations took place in 1966 | |
| This Beatles song (with a 6-word title) was released in 1963 and later became their first single to top the US Billboard charts | |
| The unofficial truce on this front ended in 1914 | |
| George Washington's army won this battle after he crossed the Delaware River | |
| This famous horror movie was released in 1973 | |
| This Chinese statesman was born in 1893 | |
| This band's first US tour began in Denver in 1968, where concert-goers got Dazed and Confused | |
| In 1946, this mobster opens the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Nevada to a $300,000 loss in the first week | |
| The US government took control of this system of transportation in 1917 | |
| This US President died in 1972 | |
| This former Indian Prime Minister was released from prison in 1978 | |
| The song Purple Haze was released by this artist in 1966 | |
| This Shakespeare tragedy about a fictional British monarch was performed for the first time in King James' court in 1606 |
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