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QUIZ
Remembering the date
   
Instructions:  See if you can match each of the seventeen events below to the date it occurred by checking the corresponding boxes. Just to make it a little bit tougher, three of the dates listed will not be used. When you're finished, click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the page to check your answers.   

Date
1. The stock market crashes, ushering in the Great Depression.
2. Fifteen die in shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.
3. Martin Luther King Jr. is slain.
4. President Lincoln is assassinated.
5. Robert E. Lee surrenders.
6. President Nixon resigns.
7. Russia puts Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit.
8. Man lands on the moon. 		 
9. Paul Revere's ride.
10. World War II ends.
11. Republican operatives break into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.
12. World War I ends.
13. East Germany allows travel through the Berlin Wall, the beginning of its end.
14. Terrorists blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 169.
15. Orville Wright becomes the first person to fly.
16. The space shuttle Challenger explodes.
17. US explodes an atom bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. 		 
April 4, 1968 April 4, 1968 April 4, 1968
Aug. 15, 1957 Aug. 15, 1957 Aug. 15, 1957
April 9, 1865 April 9, 1865 April 9, 1865
April 18, 1775 April 18, 1775 April 18, 1775
June 18, 1933 June 18, 1933 June 18, 1933
June 17, 1972 June 17, 1972 June 17, 1972
April 20, 1999 April 20, 1999 April 20, 1999
April 14, 1865 April 14, 1865 April 14, 1865
Jan. 28, 1986 Jan. 28, 1986 Jan. 28, 1986
Sept. 2, 1945 Sept. 2, 1945 Sept. 2, 1945
July 20, 1969 July 20, 1969 July 20, 1969
Nov. 20, 1955 Nov. 20, 1955 Nov. 20, 1955
April 19, 1995 April 19, 1995 April 19, 1995
Dec. 17, 1903 Dec. 17, 1903 Dec. 17, 1903
Aug. 9, 1974 Aug. 9, 1974 Aug. 9, 1974
Oct. 4, 1957 Oct. 4, 1957 Oct. 4, 1957
Nov. 9, 1989 Nov. 9, 1989 Nov. 9, 1989
Oct. 29, 1929 Oct. 29, 1929 Oct. 29, 1929
Nov. 11, 1918 Nov. 11, 1918 Nov. 11, 1918
Aug. 6, 1945 Aug. 6, 1945 Aug. 6, 1945
  1. The stock market crashes. 2. Fifteen die in shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. 3. Martin Luther King Jr. is slain. 4. President Lincoln is assassinated. 5. Robert E. Lee surrenders. 6. President Nixon resigns. 7. Russia puts Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit. 8. Man lands on the moon.   9. Paul Revere's ride. 10. World War II ends. 11. Republican operatives break into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. 12. World War I ends. 13. East Germany allows travel through the Berlin Wall, the beginning of its end. 14. Terrorists blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 169. 15. Orville Wright becomes the first person to fly. 16. The space shuttle Challenger explodes. 17. US explodes an atom bomb over Hiroshima, Japan.  
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