On This Day (March 14th) Multiple Choice

1. 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is convicted of war crimes and executed by firing squad aboard which ship?

2. 1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for what invention ?

3. 1885 – Which opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London ?

4. 1903 - The first national bird reservation is established in which city ?

5. 1923 - US President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to do what ?

6. 1926 – A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibas, killing 248 people in which country?

7. 1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using what?

8. 1966 - The British film "Born Free" is released, it is based on the book "Born Free" by which author?

9. 1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France for what reason ?

10. 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Irelands Sinn Féin party, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in which city ?

11. 1997 - President Clinton trips & injures what part of his body that then requires surgery ?

12. 2013 - 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in which city ?

13. 2017 - European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing what ?

14. 2017 - World's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for the first time in how many years ?

15. 2019 - Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao, using Google Cloud, has broken the world record for calculating pi, to how many digits ?

16. 2019 - Cyclone Idai causes over 1,000 deaths after making landfall in which country?