On This Day (January 10th) Multiple Choice

1. 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses which river, signalling the start of civil war.

2. 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason in which famous former prison ?

3. 1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician is born on this day in London, he would eventually become the 1st Premier of which Australian state ?

4. 1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from which city ?

5. 1870 Deputy sheriff Wyatt Earp weds Urilla Sutherland in which small Texas town ?

6. 1943 - The 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime - Franklin D Roosevelt leaves for which city ?

7. 1945 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter, is born in which British city ?

8. 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off what ?

9. 1949 - RCA introduces what speed of record ?

10. 1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into which sea, killing 35 people ?

11. 1971 - Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in which Northern Irish city ?

12. 2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and a passenger coach near which Asian city kills at least 62 people ?

13. 2015 - 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in which African country ?

14. 2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, dies on this day in New York City. On which island were his ashes scattered ?

15. Where is the 10th of January known as "Margaret Thatcher Day" ?

16. 2023 - Legendary Rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies on this day. Apart from his own Jeff Beck Group, with which band is he most associated ?