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Which cake shares a name with an English Queen?

1916, how did Lord Kitchener, British General and conqueror of Sudan die?

Totally useless - 1988, David Stern, New York, blew a record bubble, how big was it?

1793, who launched the worlds first hot air balloon?

June 1946, what was official launched in Paris?