On This Day (April 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 16th ?
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1. 1346 – Stefan Dušan is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, How was he known ?
The Mighty
The Great
The Benevolent
The Invincible
2. 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, in which country ?
Mexico
Colombia
Argentina
Cuba
3. 1746 – Which battle is fought in Scotland between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by the Duke of Cumberland ?
Battle of Bannockburn
Battle of Culloden
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
Battle of Ancrum Moor
4. 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the which river ?
Danube
Volga
Rhine
Jordan
5. 1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, establishing what ?.
Border with Mexico
Rates of Taxes
Diplomatic Relations with Russia
Border with Canada
6. 1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane, now part of which city ?
Mumbai
Delhi
Kolkatta
Chennai
7. 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in which state ?
Colorado
Nevada
Wyoming
Utah
8. 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across which body of water ?
North Sea
English Channel
Lake Superior
Gulf of Mexico
9. 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in which country ?
Sweden
India
Switzerland
Japan
10. 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C better known as what ?
Monowitz
Colditz
Molsdorf
Königstein
11. 1992 – The "Katina P" runs aground spilling 60,000 tons of crude oil into the ocean of the coast of which African city ?
Maputo, Mozambique
Mombasa, Kenya
Luanda, Angola
Conakry, Guinea
12. 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting how many new member states into the European Union ?
Five
Seven
Ten
Three
13. 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of which mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida takes place on this day ?
Apollo 13
Apollo 15
Apollo 17
Apollo 16
14. 1963 – Which of the Osmond family was born this day ?
Jimmy
Donny
Marie
Merrill
15. 1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of where ?
Salzburg
Munster
Basel
Luxembourg
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