On This Day (April 20th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1968 – Which English politician makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech ? Enoch Powell
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1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to members of which religion in New Amsterdam (later New York) ? Jews
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1908 – Opening day of competition in the which Rugby League ? New South Wales
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1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a coal-miners' strike in which state ? Colorado
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1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to which section of the military ? Hitler Youth
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2008 – Danica Patrick becomes the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. Which race ? Indy Japan 300
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2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in which Chinese province ? Sichuan
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1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, what does the disc measure ? Water Clarity
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1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his last two victims, his final victories before his death the following day. What numbers were they ? 79th and 80th
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1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes, killing all 53 people on board, after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in which city ? Bogota, Colombia
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1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of where ? Canada
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2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last for approximately how long ? Six Months
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1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over which city, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan ? Stockholm
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1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at a battle off which island ? Tenerife
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1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of which state ? Virginia
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