On This Day (May 5th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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Today is also commemorated internationally as what ? International Midwives Day
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1936 – Italian troops occupy which city ? Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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1961 – Which astronaut becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight ? Alan Shepard
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Today is commemorated as "Martyrs' Day" in which European country ? Albania
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1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between which two cities ? Brussels and Mechelen
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1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, is born. He is best known as the frontman for which band ? Echo and the Bunnymen
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1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that what type of evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder ? Fingerprint
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1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter takes place, the only battle in which American and what other troops fought cooperatively ? German
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1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms which country's embassy in London after a six-day siege ? Iran
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1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on and claims which island for Spain ? Jamaica
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1992 – Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): 18 people are killed when one of the terraces collapses at a football match between SC Bastia and what other team ? Olympique de Marseille
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1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near which city, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. ? Palermo
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1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay receives what punishment in Singapore for theft and vandalism ? Six Strokes of the Cane
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1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with which composer as the guest conductor ? Tchaikovsky
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1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for inventing a technique of doing what ? Weaving Straw
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