On This Day (February 16th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1881 – Which company is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa ? Canadian Pacific Railway
67%
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin what feat ? First submerged circumnavigation of the Globe
67%
2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs for what reason ? Labour Dispute
67%
1986 – The Soviet cruise liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, in which country ? New Zealand
67%
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for which product ? Nylon
67%
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of which Pharaoh ? Tutankhamun
67%
2016 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations dies. What was his nationality? Egyptian
33%
1985 – Which political and militant extremist group is founded on this day ? Hezbollah
33%
2006 – The last of which type of unit is decommissioned by the United States Army ? M.A.S.H.
33%
Today is a celebration of which food in the USA ? National Almond Day
33%
1941 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, is born according to Russia in Khabarovsk, where was he born a year later according to his official biography ? Paektu Mountain
33%
1646 – The last major battle of the First English Civil War is fought in which town ? Torrington, Devon
33%
1804 – During the First Barbary War, Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn which frigate that was held by pirates ? USS Philadelphia
33%
1968 – The first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service in which city ? Haleyville, Alabama
0%
1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the head of which Empire ? Mongol
0%
1930 – Which Eastern European Football Federation joins FIFA ? Romania
0%
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