On This Day (April 9th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and which other state ? Kansas
70%
1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in which city ? Bogota
60%
1991 – Which country declares independence from the Soviet Union ? Georgia
60%
1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of which river, claiming it for France ? Mississippi
60%
1957 – Which canal is cleared of debris and opened to shipping ? Suez Canal
60%
1969 – Which British-built aircraft makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford ? BAC Concorde
50%
1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of which country ? Denmark
40%
2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in which town ? Windsor
30%
1388 – Forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels, despite being outnumbered by how many to 1 ? 16
20%
1992 – A US Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to how many years in prison ? 30
20%
1957 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer and architect, is born in which Spanish region ? Cantabria
20%
1959 – NASA announces the selection of the United States' first astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the what ? Mercury Seven
20%
1914 – One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of which country ? Mexico
20%
1937 – The first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe arrives at Croydon Airport in London. what was its name ? Kamikaze
10%
2017 – After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked flight, Dr. David Dao Duy Anh is forcibly dragged off the flight by aviation security officers on which airline ? United Airlines
10%
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