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Which ill-fated ship began its sea trials in April 1912?
RMS Titanic

 

Which group held the first five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964?
Beatles

 

Who was assassinated by James Earl Ray in April 1968?
Martin Luther King

 

In Virginia in 1614, English colonist John Rolfe married which Native American?
Pocahontas

 

Why were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg sentenced to death in the USA in 1951?
Spying for the Soviet Union

 

In 1957, Olympic Airlines was founded by which Greek shipping tycoon?
Aristotle Onassis

 

The Swedish pop band ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo" in April of which year?
1974

 

Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be depicted on what?
A United States postage stamp