On This Day (January 24th) Multiple Choice

1. 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor who was known by what name ?

2. 1644 - Parliamentary army wins the battle of which Cheshire town during the English Civil War ?

3. 1848 – James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near which Californian town, starting the California Gold Rush ?

4. 1857 – The University of where is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia ?

5. 1899 - What is patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan ?

6. 1900 - The worlds first Badminton Club, forms in which English city ?

7. 1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist is born in which New York borough ?

8. 1966 - 117 passengers are killed after a Boeing-707 plane of which airline crashes into Mont Blanc, France ?

9. 1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a jungle on which Pacific island, where he had been since the end of World War II ?

10. 1978 – Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over which area ?

11. 1981 - English Singer Davy Jones marries his second wife Anita Pollinger, what famous band was he a member of ?

12. 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader, author, and founder of the Church of Scientology dies. He spent the last two years of his life living in what ?

13. 1989 – Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the State Prison in which state of the US ?

14. 2011 – At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at which airport ?

15. 2018 - Former US Olympic team doctor Larry Nassar found guilty of molesting over 150 girls, and is sentenced to how many years in prison ?

16. 2012 - Princess Athena is born into which Royal Family ?