On This Day (August 16th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1328 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until which year ?

1708 ✓

1652 ✓

1901 ✓

1864 ✓

2. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden in which state ?

North Carolina ✓

South Carolina ✓

Georgia ✓

Virginia ✓

3. 1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field in which English city ?

Birmingham ✓

York ✓

Norwich ✓

Manchester ✓

4. 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with who ?

Queen Victoria (UK monarch) ✓

The Earl of Derby (PM of UK) ✓

Pope Pius IX (Head of Papal States) ✓

Kōmei (Japanese Emporer) ✓

5. 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, is officially inaugurated and blessed. It is the first church in Asia to be made of what material ?

Granite ✓

Steel ✓

Sandstone ✓

Wood ✓

6. 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of which Canadian river ?

Yukon ✓

Mackenzie ✓

Liard ✓

Klondike ✓

7. 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit what type of student ?

Female ✓

Foreign ✓

Disadvantaged ✓

Disabled ✓

8. 1918 – The Battle of which lake was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army ?

Lake Balaton ✓

Aral Sea ✓

Lake Baikal ✓

Lake Balkhash ✓

9. 1923 – The United Kingdom gives what name to part of its claimed Antarctic territory ?

Enderby Land ✓

Ross Dependency ✓

Wilkes Land ✓

Princess Elizabeth Land ✓

10. 1930 – The first British Empire Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games, were opened in which city ?

Adelaide, Australia ✓

Birmingham, UK ✓

Cape Town, South Africa ✓

Hamilton, Canada ✓

11. 1942 – World War II: A naval L-class blimp drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in which city in California ?

Santa Rosa ✓

Daly City ✓

Petaluma ✓

Santa Cruz ✓

12. 1960 – Which country gains its independence from the United Kingdom and is doomed forever to be a source of arguments as to it's location ?

Cyprus ✓

Kenya ✓

Botswana ✓

Bahamas ✓

13. 1962 – Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by which member ?

George Harrison ✓

John Lennon ✓

Ringo Starr ✓

Paul McCartney ✓

14. 1989 – A solar particle event affects computers at the which Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading ?

Frankfurt ✓

Toronto ✓

London ✓

New York ✓

15. 2012 – Which country's police force fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute ?

Venezuela ✓

China ✓

Kazakhstan ✓

South Africa ✓

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