January 3
1848
Joseph Jenkins Roberts, born a free man in Norfolk, Virginia, is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
FREEDOM!
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- To the nearest minute, how long is Lynyrd Skynyrd's song Free Bird?
- Who played a prisoner in Attica, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Invictus, and The Shawshank Redemption?
- Leopold II, who gave Africa the horror that was the Congo Free State, was king of what country?
- Which former slave state is ironically nicknamed "The Free State?"
- What do you eat to stop free radicals from harming you?
- The song Pressure Point by Duncan Lamont was used as an example of free-form jazz in an episode of what cartoon?
9 minutes (9:07, to be exact)
Morgan Freeman
Belgium
Maryland
Antioxidants
SpongeBob SquarePants
1977
Apple is founded in Cupertino, California.
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Remember, just because a word starts with a long I sound doesn't mean it's an Apple product!
- What country is the folk group Of Monsters and Men from?
- What element is added to salt to prevent thyroid disease?
- What is the only US state whose eastern and western borders are both rivers?
- What Biblical prophet had a burning coal touched to his lips by an angel?
- If a triangle has sides of length 7, 7, and 9, what kind of triangle is it?
- What peninsula do Portugal and Spain lie on?
- What animal product is the traditional gift for a 14th wedding anniversary?
- What scientist did Weird Al Yankovic portray in Epic Rap Battles of History?
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iOwa
iSaiah
iSosceles
iBerian
iVory
iSaacNewton
2009
The first Bitcoin is mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the cryptocurrency.
If That Is Your Real Name
I hope you know how these people are better known.
- Norma Jeane Mortensen
- Malcolm Little
- Ramon Estevez
- Richard Starkey
- Reginald Kenneth Dwight
- Marion Morrison
- Karol Wojtyla
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- Maurice Micklewhite
- Caryn Johnson
Marilyn Monroe
Malcolm X
Martin Sheen
Ringo Starr
Elton John
John Wayne
Pope John Paul II
Lewis Carroll
Michael Caine
Whoopi Goldberg
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