This Day in History

Question 1

In what year did Smith Dairy in Orrville, Ohio make the World's Largest Milkshake at 1,891.69 gallons.

Accepted Answer

1989

Question 2

In what year was Walt Disney's animated film Fantasia released?

Accepted Answer

1940

Question 3

In what year was the first comic strip of Charlie Brown published?

Accepted Answer

1950

Question 4

In what year did the Wright Brother make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight?

Accepted Answer

1903

Question 5

In what year did basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar score his 36,000th point.

Accepted Answer

1987

Question 6

In what year did Florence Chadwick become the 1st woman to swim the English Channel.

Accepted Answer

1951

Question 7

In what year was the first game in the Baseball National League history played?

Accepted Answer

1876

Question 8

In what year did Astronaut Kathy Sullivan become the 1st woman to walk in space?

Accepted Answer

1984

Question 9

In what year did Queen Elizabeth II become Great Britain's longest reigning monarch?

Accepted Answer

2015

Question 10

In what year George Washington inaugurated as the first president of the United States?

Accepted Answer

1789

Question 11

What year was Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" single released?

Accepted Answer

1957

Question 12

In what year did King Henry VIII order bowling lanes be build at Whitehall Palace?

Accepted Answer

1520

Question 13

In what year did McDonald's make its 50 billionth hamburger?

Accepted Answer

1984

Question 14

In what year was the Eiffel Tower officially opened?

Accepted Answer

1889

Question 15

In what year was the song "Happy Birthday to You" published?

Accepted Answer

1924

Question 16

In what year was Abraham Lincoln elected the 16th President of the United States?

Accepted Answer

1860

Question 17

In what year did Sandra Day O'Connor become the first woman to be on the US Supreme Court.

Accepted Answer

1981

Question 18

In what year was the book "Winnie-the-Pooh" published?

Accepted Answer

1926

Question 19

In what year did the Automobile Club of America organize its first automobile race?

Accepted Answer

1900

Question 20

In what year was the first railroad tunnel in the United States completed?

Accepted Answer

1835

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