On This Day (February 4th) Multiple Choice

1. 960 – The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last for how many centuries ?

2. 1169 – A strong earthquake strikes the coast of which Mediterranean island, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths ?

3. 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), how many of the forty-seven Ronin commit "Seppuku" (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death ?

4. 1789 – Who is unanimously elected as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College ?

5. 1859 – The "Codex Sinaiticus", one of the oldest known copies of the Bible, is discovered in which African country ?

6. 1866 - Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science religious movement, reportedly cures her injuries by what means ?

7. 1908 - Star #46 was added to the US flag signifying the addition to the Union of which state on November 16, 1907 ?

8. 1913 – Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist is born in which city ?

9. 1945 – World War II: The Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in which city ?

10. 1948 - Which country declares independence from UK ?

11. 1974 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel on which motorway in England ?

12. 1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes police officers on an unrelated stake-out in which US city ?

13. Today is a worldwide "Day" of awareness, it is called what ?

14. 2004 – Which mainstream online social networking site is founded on this day ?

15. 2013 - The authorities of Paris, France annuls a 213 year old law banning women from doing what ?

16. 2020 - The Covid-19 pandemic causes all casinos to be shut down for 15 days in which city?