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Bonus puzzle #7 answers
Starting event: Ian Fleming publishes From Russia, with Love (1957)
The full timeline
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569 BC
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1449Birth
Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian politician, literary man and humanist, is born
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1546Politics
The town of Ekenäs (Finnish: Tammisaari) is founded by King Gustav Vasa of Sweden
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1739
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1756
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1832
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1833War
The Spanish American wars of independence ended with the death of King Ferdinand VII, with what had once been the Spanish Empire disintegrating into independent Latin American states
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1876Landmarks
Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state
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1887War
A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé was released on the order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war
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1914Transport
The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft
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1943Politics
The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt
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1957
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1963
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1971
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1974Disaster
A man ignited tires in the crater of Mount Edgecumbe, prompting a false eruption scare later revealed as an April Fools' hoax
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1982Religion
A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured
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1987
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1995History
The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves
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2007
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2010
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2011