On This Day (January 23rd) Multiple Choice

1. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the death toll of which may have been as high as 830,000, hits which province in China ?

2. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by the first recorded instance of which method ?

3. 1719 – Which Principality still in existance today was created within the Holy Roman Empire ?

4. 1846 – Slavery is abolished in which African country ?

5. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the United States' first woman to practice which profession ?

6. 1951 – Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, American captain and pilot, famous for landing his airplane on the Hudson River, was born in which Texan city ?

7. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to what toy to the Wham-O toy company ?

8. 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves which South American country ?

9. 1960 - A Bathysphere, crewed by Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, reaches the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It was named after which Italian city ?

10. 1963 – Which African country's War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite ?

11. 1967 – Which English town is founded by an Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people ?

12. 1983 - A radioactive Russian satellite falls into which Ocean ?

13. January 23rd is "Bounty Day" on which remote island ?

14. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in which Chinese city, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China ?

15. 2005 – Johnny Carson, American talk show host, television personality, and producer dies in which U.S. city ?

16. 2018 - The China - United States Trade War begins when President Trump places tariffs on Chinese made solar panels and which other commodity?