On This Day (February 6th) Multiple Choice

1. 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of which other king?

2. 1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants depart New York to start a settlement in the area that is now known as which country ?

3. 1836 - HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Van Diemen's Land, now known as what ?

4. 1854 - Composer Robert Schumann is saved from a suicide attempt into which European river ?

5. 1895 – George Herman Ruth Jr. a.k.a. Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach is born in which city ?

6. 1935 - Which board game goes on sale for the first time ?

7. 1952 – Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom, at the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in which country ?

8. 1956 - French Prime Minister Guy Mollet is pelted with what on a visit to Algiers ?

9. 1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in an air disaster in which city ?

10. 1971 - Which astronaut is the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon?

11. 1976 – Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits paying out $3 million in bribes to the Prime Minister's office of which country ?

12. 1987 - What new rule takes effect in all US federal buildings ?

13. 1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (3 Grand Slam singles titles), dies at 49 of which condition?

14. 1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving which aircraft ?

15. 1997 - English woman Diane Blood won the right to use her dead husband's what ?

16. 2023 - Two earthquakes occur killing almost 58,000 people occur on the border of which two countries?