On This Day (August 2nd) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as what ? Hudson Bay
79%
1990 – Iraq invades which country ? Kuwait
57%
1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in which city ? London
57%
1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in which Italian city ? Bologna
50%
1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. The wreckage would not be found until which year ? 1998
43%
1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot. The Southampton Plot was a plan to do what ? Depose the King
43%
1343 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to take revenge by attacking shipping in which area ? English Channel
43%
1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in which city ? Vancouver
43%
1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre on which European island ? Isle of Man
36%
1989 – Which country is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972. Pakistan
36%
2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at which airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries but no fatalities ? Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada
29%
1922 – What kills more than 50.000 people in Shantou, Republic of China ? Typhoon
29%
1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of which President ? Warren G. Harding
21%
1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches to Britain. How many ships were in the convoy ? 166
14%
1914 – World War I: The German occupation of country begins ? Luxembourg
14%
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