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Remember When…? by LaVena Kay Kidd [Reprinted from Sunflower Seeds, newsletter of Sunflower Mensa, February, 2004; Marlene Henkle, Editor]

History has a habit of getting lost. Do you remember when Friends debuted on TV? Our puzzle this month is all about dates. Your mission is to match the date with its historical or hysterical event.

1) VE Day A) June 24, 1947

2) San Francisco Earthquake B) October 21, 1805

3) Fall of the Berlin Wall C) July 18, 1815

4) Battle of Gettysburg D) May 8, 1945

5) Desi Arnaz’s Birth E) April 18, 1906

6) Princess Diana’s Death F) 1958

7) Premiere of Gone With The Wind G) July 29, 1588

8) Charlie Brown’s Christmas Debut H) August 1, 1981

9) Kenneth Arnold reports sighting of UFO’s I) October 1, 1961

10) Cuban Missile Crisis J) November 9, 1989

11) Battle of Trafalgar K) December, 1965

12) Superman’s debut in Action Comics #1 L) January 29, 1861

13) Defeat of the Spanish Armada M) July 20, 1969

14)Battle of Waterloo N) 1938

15) MTV goes on air O) December 15, 1939

16) Edison patents the light bulb P) July, 1863

17) Roger Maris breaks Ruth’s home run record Q) May 23, 1701

18) Neil Armstrong steps on the Moon R) 1880

19) Captain Kidd is executed S) October, 1962

20) Kansas admitted to the Union T) August 31, 1997

21) First Pizza Hut opens in Wichita U) January 19, 1953

Answers to Remember When…?

 

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