On This Day (January 30th) Multiple Choice

1. 1661 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for how long ?

2. 1804 - Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking the source of which river ?

3. 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connects which island to the rest of mainland UK ?

4. 1847 – Yerba Buena is renamed as which city in California ?

5. 1858 - Charles Hallé founds the Hallé Orchestra in which English city ?

6. 1883 - The England cricket team is presented with The Ashes after the Sydney Test Match, but the ashes of what?

7. 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane passenger rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from where ?

8. 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author is born in which US city ?

9. 1934 - Actor and comedian Lou Costello marries burlesque dancer Anne Battler, how many children did they eventually have ?

10. 1965 - The State funeral of Winston Churchill takes place at which London Landmark ?

11. 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance takes place on the roof of Apple Records in which city ?

12. 1973 - Which rock band play their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens, NY ?

13. 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called what ?

14. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes what ?

15. 2013 - Naro-1, the first carrier rocket, is launched by which country?

16. 2019 - Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for how much at auction in New York ?