On This Day (January 31st) Multiple Choice

1. 1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot is executed by what means ?

2. 1747 – The first clinic for the treatment of what condition opens at London Lock Hospital ?

3. 1863 - The first black Civil War regiment, known as what are mustered into the US army ?

4. 1874 - Whose gang robs a train at Gads Hill, Missouri ?

5. 1915 – In World War I, Germany is the first to make large-scale use of what in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia ?

6. 1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in which Scottish city during a campaign for shorter working hours ?

7. 1928 – Leon Trotsky is exiled to which Asian city ?.

8. 1950 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop what ?

9. 1956 - Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of which South American country ?

10. 1968 – Which Pacific nation gains independence from Australia ?

11. 1971 – Which Apollo mission with Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, lifts off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon ?

12. 1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor is born in which city ?

13. 1990 - What opens in Moscow, Soviet Union for the first time ?

14. 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in the capital of which Asian country, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400 ?

15. 2020 – The United Kingdom's membership of the European Union ceases in accordance with Article 50 after how many years of being a member state ?

16. 2023 - The last ever Boeing 747 is delivered to Atlas Air. How many 747s were built including the prototype?