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1. What happened on March 28^th?

2. What year was the first electric streetlight installed?

3. Where was novelist James Joyce born?

4. What date was Louis (Daniel) Armstrong born?

5. Name three entertainment events that happened in on February 2^nd?

6. What year did IBM first put computers in public housing?

7. What date did Elvis Presley die?

8. What was the first organized baseball club in America? (Not necessarily professional)

9. Where was basketball originated, and by whom?

10. Who discovered the planet Pluto, and when?

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Answer Key

1. Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island

2. 1880

3. Dublin, Ireland

4. August 4^th, 1901

5. - 1979 Sid Vicious dies

- 1912 First movie stuntman performs

- 1933 MGM fires Buster Keaton

- 1982 “Late Night with David Letterman” premieres

6. 1998

7. August 16^th, 1977

8. 1845 Knickerbocker Baseball Club Manhattan

9. Springfield, Massachusetts and Dr. James Nai Smith

10. James Christy and Robert Herrington, 1978