On This Day (January 27th) Multiple Choice

1. 1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from which Italian city ?

2. 1785 – Which university is founded, the first public university in the United States ?

3. 1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers what ?

4. 1832 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English novelist, poet, and mathematician is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, UK. By what name is he better known ?

5. 1916 – World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced what to the United Kingdom ?

6. 1918 – The first fighting signalled the beginning of which Civil War ?

7. 1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of which city is lifted ?

8. 1956 - Which single is released by Elvis Presley, that would become his first million-selling single ?

9. 1967 - A Treaty is initially signed by USA, USSR, and UK banning military use of what ?

10. 1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming of a commercial for which soft drink ?

11. 1992 - Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on which part of her body ?

12. 1996 – In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of which African nation ?

13. 1997 - "Wall Street" actor Charlie Sheen divorces model Donna Peele after how long ?

14. 2018 – Ingvar Kamprad, dies in Älmhult, Sweden at age 91, he is known as the founder of which global retail company ?

15. 2019 - A landslide kills 15 people at a wedding party in a hotel in which Peruvian city ?

16. 2023 - Protests across the US are staged following the release of a video of Tyre Nichols being attacked by police officers in which city?