On This Day (August 24th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1482 – The town and castle of which town is captured from Scotland by an English army ? Berwick upon Tweed
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1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for what ? Bubonic Plague
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1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of which city ? Cadiz
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1914 – World War I: German troops capture which Belgian city ? Namur
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1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop from Los Angeles to where ? Newark, New Jersey
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1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for which construction project ? Panama Canal
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2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines which heavenly body ? Pluto
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1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in which country ? Poland
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410 – The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage which city ? Rome
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1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to which organisation ? United Nations
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1995 – Which Microsoft product was released to the public in North America ? Windows 95
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1967 – The Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing what from the viewing gallery ? Dollar Bills
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1891 – Thomas Edison patents which of his inventions ? Movie Camera
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1911 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of which country ? Portugal
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1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept what ? The Book of Common Prayer
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