A. Reading comprehension

Read our article about Numbers on pages 16-17 of English Now No 108. Then write the dates in full letters.
  1. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 ( -)
  2. Queen Victoria became queen in 1837 ( -)
  3. The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 (UK) (the of -).
  4. The general strike started on 3 May 1926 (UK) (the of --).
  5. The Salem Witch Trials took place in 1692 ( -).
  6. Slavery was declared illegal in the USA (in the Northern states) in 1804 ( o ).
  7. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 14, 1968 (US) ( the -).
  8. The Persian Gulf War began in 1990 ( )
  9. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 (US) ( the ).


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