On This Day (March 3rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on March 3rd ?
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1. 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in which Italian city ?
Vicenza
Venice
Verona
Viterbo
2. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins which Battle?
Battle of Valcour Island
Battle of the Chesapeake
Battle of Nassau
Battle of Sullivan's Island
3. 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on which country ?
Afghanistan
China
Nepal
Japan
4. 1873 – The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send what through the mail ?
Firearms and Ammunition
Live Animals
Poisonous Substances
Obscene Publications
5. 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in which French city ?
Paris
Nice
Lyon
Bordeaux
6. 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of which sport is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada ?
Curling
Tennis
Ice Hockey
Archery
7. 1923 – Which well known magazine is published for the first time ?
Cosmopolitan
Time
Harper's Bazaar
The Economist
8. 1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using what ?
File Baked in a Cake
Home Made Explosive
Wooden Pistol
Rope made from Sheets
9. 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper "Flamman" in which city ?
Luleå, Sweden.
Vaasa, Finland
Drammen, Norway
Jelgava, Latvia
10. 1943 – World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at which tube station ?
Chancery Lane
Elephant & Castle
Golders Green
Bethnal Green
11. 1975 - Linda McCartney is charged in the United States with what ?
Non Payment of Taxes
Assault
Drink Driving
Possession of Marijuana
12. 1985 - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis premieres on which US TV service ?
NBC
ABC
Fox
CBS
13. 1990 - Carole Gist (20) is the first African American to become what ?
Ambassador to Russia
State Senator
Miss USA
Captain of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleading Team
14. 1992 - US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for what ?
Raising Taxes
Gulf War
US Slave Trade
Homelessness
15. 2017 - Which gaming console is released worldwide?
Playstation 4
Wii U
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
16. 2018 – Sir Roger Bannister, English athlete, and the first man to run a sub four-minute mile dies of Parkinson's Disease in which British town ?
Cambridge
Oxford
Aberdeen
Aberystwyth
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