Also a Famous Date in History by LuskT

While the ink was drying on excommunication decrees in Rome and Constantinople in 1054, astronomers in China observed the first recorded sighting of what phenomenon?

In the year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland - starving and outnumbered - charged the fields of Bannockburn. Three months earlier, Jacques de Molay was executed as the last leader of what medieval organization?

Topping the Billboard Hot 100 on September 11, 2001 was the song "I'm Real." Name the main singer AND featured artist on that song.

What extant honor society was founded at William & Mary in December 1776? Its Greek letters are an abbreviation for a phrase that roughly translates "Love of learning is the guide of life."

In 1618, as Prague was throwing people out of windows (again), Sir Walter Raleigh had his head thrown off his body due to treason against what English monarch?

Between Woodstock and the "Miracle Mets," 1969 was a banner year for New York. Who was the manager of that Mets team, his first of four seasons in the role?

Five months after the first shots of the American Civil War are fired in 1861, the first complete remains of what animal were discovered in Germany? It is still occasionally referred to by its German name Urvogel.

In August 1492, Alexander VI is elected pope as white smoke billows from the chimney of what building for the first time?

In 1814, while the British army was setting fire to buildings in Washington, DC, what Romantic poet published The Corsair back in the UK? It was believed to be based on the life of Jean Lafitte and would later serve as inspiration for both an opera by Verdi and an overture by Berlioz.

In February 1914, before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand puts the world at war, what famous comedic actor debuted his first two films - Making a Living and Kid Auto Races at Venice? (edited at 10:53 am, February 13, 2016 (PST))

Which future Secretary-General of the United Nations was born in the village of Haengchi one week after the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944?

On December 31, 1999, the United States handed over administration of the Panama Canal - that way if the Millennium Bug hit, it would be the Panamanians' problem. Name either signatory of the treaties that handed control of the canal back to Panama on this date.