On This Day (October 15th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1815 – Napoleon begins his exile on which island in the Atlantic Ocean ? St. Helena
100%
1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of which modern medicine ? Birth Control Pill
83%
1917 – World War I: Dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage. What was her nationality ? Dutch
83%
1994 – The Clinton administration returns which country's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide ? Haiti
83%
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent in a suburb of which French city ? Paris
83%
1809 – The Viceroy the Río de la Plata, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, opens which port to trade with nations other than Spain ? Buenos Aires
67%
1932 – Tata Airlines makes its first flight. By what name was it later known ? Air India
50%
1979 – A coup d'état in overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins a 12 year-long Civil War in which country ? El Salvador
50%
1956 – The first modern computer language is first shared with the coding community.What was it called ? FORTRAN
50%
1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst in which of the United States ? New Jersey
50%
1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to which planet ? Saturn
50%
1529 – The siege of which city ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion ? Vienna
50%
2003 – China launches its first manned space mission. What was the craft called ? Shenzhou 5
33%
2005 – A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in which city ? Toledo, Ohio
33%
2007 – Seventeen activists are arrested in which country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids ? New Zealand
17%
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