On This Day (September 6th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1885 – The autonomous territory of Eastern Rumelia declares its union with which European country ? Bulgaria
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1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Where is La Gomera ? Canary Islands
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1966 – Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting in which South African city ? Cape Town
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1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and taken to Dawson's Field airstrip in which country ? Jordan
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1620 – The Pilgrims sail from which English port on the Mayflower to settle in North America ? Plymouth
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1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in which country ? United States
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1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Approximately how many people watched on TV worldwide ? 2.5 billion
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1930 – Democratically elected president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup in which country ? Argentina
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1870 – Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to do what legally ? Cast a Vote
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1916 – The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in which US city ? Memphis, Tennessee
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1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to which century in the Blackfriars area of London ? Second Century AD
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1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in which state ? South Carolina
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1642 – England's Parliament bans what activity ? Stage Plays
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1944 – World War II: Which city in Belgium is liberated by Allied forces ? Ypres
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2013 – Forty one elephants are poisoned by poachers in Hwange National Park in which country ? Zimbabwe
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