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2001: The U.S. Congress certified George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 presidential election following a legal battle. [Take our quiz about U.S. presidential elections.]

1966: Indian composer A.R. Rahman, known as “the Mozart of Madras,” was born in Madras (now Chennai), India. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about composers.]

1950: Great Britain announced its recognition of the People's Republic of China. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about China.]

1941: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his Four Freedoms in his State of the Union message to Congress. [Take our U.S. presidents quiz.]

1878: American poet, historian, and folklorist Carl Sandburg, whose Abraham Lincoln: The War Years won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1940, was born. [Test your knowledge of authors and poets.]