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1. 1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in which Italian city ?
Naples
Verona
Milan
Venice
2. 1783 – Which composer's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria ?
George Frideric Handel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Antonio Vivaldi
3. 1839 – The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain takes place when Chartist sympathisers march on which city ?
Manchester
Newport
London
Ripon
4. 1890 – London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and which other station ?
Bank
Bayswater
Sloane Square
Stockwell
5. 1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in which Japanese city ?
Tokyo
Kyoto
Osaka
Sapporo
6. 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to which pharoah's tomb in the Valley of the Kings ?
Ramesses IV
Nefertiti
Tutankhamun
Darius II
7. 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States. She was elected in which state ?
North Dakota
Idaho
Louisiana
Wyoming
8. 1944 – World War II: The 7th Macedonian Liberation Brigade liberates Bitola for the Allies. In which modern day country is Bitola ?
Kosovo
North Macedonia
Greece
Serbia
9. 1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees doing what, the first-ever observation in non-human animals ?
Communicating by a form of sign language
Creating tools
Imitating other species
Self awareness in mirrors
10. 1970 – Salvador Allende takes office, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections. In which country ?
Chile
Bolivia
Peru
Paraguay
11. 1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first of what restrictions caused by the 1973 oil crisis ?
Severe Power Cuts
No Public Transport
Car-Free Sunday
No TV broadcasts
12. 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns which country's embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages ?
United Kingdom
United States
Iraq
France
13. 1993 – China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400, overruns the runway at Kai Tak Airport in which city ?
Taipei
Phnom Penh
Pyongyang
Hong Kong
14. 2015 – A building collapses in which city in Pakistan resulting in at least 45 deaths ?
Lahore
Karachi
Islamabad
Multan
15. 2015 – NASA declares it has received the first message from interstellar space from which spacecraft ?