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On This Day (September 28th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 28th ?
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1. 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled, along with Hippolytus of Rome, to which island ?
Elba
Sardinia
Lampedusa
Stromboli
2. 1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives in the place that is now as which Californian city ?
San Diego
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Sacramento
3. 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on which date ?
30th September
15th November
13th October
25th December
4. 1868 – The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to which country ?
France
Portugal
Morocco
United Kingdom
5. 1893 – Foundation of which Portuguese football club ?
Benfica
Chaves
Boavista
Porto
6. 1919 – Race riots begin in which city ?
Birmingham, Alabama
Omaha, Nebraska
Jacksonville, Florida
Savannah, Georgia
7. 1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from which military service ?
United States Army
Royal Air Force
Canadian Flying Corps
Royal Dutch Navy
8. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of which country ?
Finland
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
9. 1961 – A military coup in which city effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria ?
Cairo
Damascus
Aleppo
Alexandria
10. 1971 – The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of which drug ?
Cannabis
Heroine
Morphine
Opium
11. 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in which city ?
Johannesburg
Montreal
Brisbane
London
12. 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in which sea ?
North
Celtic
Baltic
Mediterranean
13. 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take control of which islands in a coup ?
Comoros
Cape Verde
Andaman Islands
Cayman Islands
14. 2008 – The first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle puts a payload into orbit. What was it called ?
Condor 1
Falcon 1
Eagle 1
Hawk 1
15. 2016 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. What caused it ?
Terrorism
Sabotage by an ex-employee
Computer Error
Storm Damage
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2 Comments
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Level 55
Sep 28, 2020
How are you still doing this! Congratulations for yet another nice quiz!
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Level 81
Sep 28, 2020
Now that I'm down to less than 100 days to the end of the year, I may as well finish it off..It would be wrong to give up now, so close to the end !