On This Day (February 23rd) Multiple Choice

1. 1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former what ?

2. 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in which Texan city ?

3. 1874 - Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called "Sphairistike" , nowadays known as what ?

4. 1886 - "The Times" of London publishes the world's first what ?

5. 1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of which metal from the electrolysis of it's oxide ?

6. 1887 – Which European holiday region is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000 ?

7. 1904 - The United States acquires control of which area for $10 million ?

8. 1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form which service club ?

9. 1923 - Great Britain lowers import duty from 26% to 5% on products from which country ?

10. 1934 – Leopold III becomes King of which European nation ?

11. 1940 - Which of Walt Disney's animated movies is released on this day ?

12. 1941 – Which element is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg ?

13. 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children with the Salk vaccine against which disease begins in Pittsburgh ?

14. 2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on which island, marking the first operational loss of a B-2 ?

15. 2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2​1⁄2 million litres of what, into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, creating an environmental disaster ?

16. 2021 - Four simultaneous prison riots leave 79 dead in which country?