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August 1963

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  1. 1st August 1963In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
  2. 2nd August 1963Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  3. 3rd August 1963Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
  4. 4th August 1963Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  5. 5th August 1963Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  6. 6th August 1963In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
  7. 7th August 1963What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
  8. 8th August 1963How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  9. 9th August 1963Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  10. 10th August 1963What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  11. 11th August 1963When did Germany formally reunify?
  12. 12th August 1963What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
  13. 13th August 1963Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  14. 14th August 1963What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  15. 15th August 1963In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  16. 16th August 1963Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  17. 17th August 1963In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  18. 18th August 1963Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  19. 19th August 1963In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  20. 20th August 1963Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  21. 21st August 1963What was a Gauleiter?
  22. 22nd August 1963What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  23. 23rd August 1963Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  24. 24th August 1963In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  25. 25th August 1963Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  26. 26th August 1963On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  27. 27th August 1963What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  28. 28th August 1963Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  29. 29th August 1963Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  30. 30th August 1963Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  31. 31st August 1963What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?