Today's Puzzle
These 5 historical events share the same month and year. Can you piece together when they occurred?
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- artsThe former Gare d’Orsay railway station was converted into the Musée d’Orsay, dedicated to 19th- and early 20th-century art. Its inauguration marked a major expansion of France’s national museum network
- historyPalestinian students at Birzeit University staged sit-ins and demonstrations against an Israeli military roadblock. Four protesters—two 16-year-olds, a 12-year-old, and a university staff member—were killed, and the campus was shut down by Israeli authorities. These clashes foreshadowed the wider uprising that would erupt as the First Intifada one year later.
- technologyDesigned by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, the experimental aircraft Voyager took off from Edwards AFB, California, aiming to make the first nonstop, non-refueling circumnavigation of the globe.
- politicsA popular uprising broke out after Moscow replaced long-time Kazakh party chief Dinmukhamed Kunaev with an ethnic Russian. Soviet troops were sent in, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of arrests, and it became a flashpoint in early nationalist movements within the USSR.
- historyAn arson attack on the Dupont Plaza Hotel killed 97 people and injured over 140, making it one of the deadliest hotel fires in U.S. territory history.
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