On This Day (February 24th) Multiple Choice

1. 1386 – King Charles III of Naples is assassinated in which city ?

2. 1525 – A Spanish-Austrian army defeats which country's army at the Battle of Pavia?f

3. 1809 – Which London Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute ?

4. 1831 – What is the name of the first removal treaty, forcing the Choctaws in Mississippi to cede land east of the river, in accordance with the Indian Removal Act ?

5. 1854 – The first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution is released on this day. What was it called ?

6. 1875 – The SS Gothenburg sinks off the Australian coast, killing approximately 100 people, after hitting what ?

7. 1916 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate patients with which complaint ?

8. 1920 – Nancy Astor became the first woman to do what in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom ?

9. 1934 - High-ranking member of British intelligence Kim Philby weds communist Litzi Friedmann in which city ?

10. 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting in which language ?

11. 1976 – The current constitution of which country is formally proclaimed ?

12. 1978 – A group of 5 people from which California city get lost in the Plumas National Forest of the Sierra Nevada ? (Four of their bodies are found in June of the same year, but one of them is still missing to this day)

13. 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of whom ?

14. 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section en route to New Zealand from which city ?

15. 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after how many years ?

16. 2022 - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, orders a full-scale invasion of which country?