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8 SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | AUGUST 2020 By Clare Mendez, Resident This quiz will stretch your long-term memory muscles. 1. 1859 Petroleum was discovered in this eastern state, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well. 2. 1888 A prostitute named Mary Ann Nichols was found murdered in London's East End. She is generally regarded as the first victim of this serial killer. 3. 1902 This pioneering cookbook author opened the first cooking school in the United States. She advocated the use of standardized measurements in recipes. 4. 1947 When India gained independence after nearly two hundred years of British rule, several Muslim-majority regions were separated off, forming this new country. 5. 1954 Time, Inc. published the first edition of this magazine with a cover photograph of a Milwaukee Brewers batter swinging at a New York Giants pitch. 6. 1956 This influential American abstract painter, famous for pouring and dripping paint on canvas, died in a car crash while driving drunk. 7. 1963 Which Washington, DC, landmark was Martin Luther King Jr. standing in front of when he gave his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech? 8. 1968 Anti-Vietnam War candidate Eugene McCarthy lost the Democratic presidential nomination to this war supporting Minnesotan. 9. 1977 Elvis Presley was found dead at the age of forty-two on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion in this city. 10. 1977 After less than two weeks in office, President Gerald Ford nominated this former governor to serve as vice president of the United States. 11. 1981 More than eleven thousand members of this government union went on strike. Forty-eight hours later, President Ronald Reagan fired them all. 12. 1984 This diminutive author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood died at age fifty-nine in the home of his friend Joanne Carson (ex-wife of Johnny Carson). 13. 1997 Britain's Princess Diana left this hotel and was killed minutes later in a tragic car accident. 14. 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Who was the mayor of New Orleans at the time? AUGUST IN HISTORY Answers on the following page

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