On This Day (January 16th) Multiple Choice

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1. 1556 – Philip II becomes King of which European country ?

Denmark ✓

Sweden ✓

Spain ✓

Netherlands ✓

2. 1581 - English parliament passes laws against what religion ?

Catholicism ✓

Islam ✓

Judaism ✓

Buddhism ✓

3. 1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have what ?

First Aiders on site at all times ✓

At least two independent means of escape ✓

Rescue equipment on all levels underground ✓

Independant air supply pumped underground ✓

4. 1864 - Mary Ann Nichols weds printer's machinist William Nichols in London, England. Mary Ann would become famous as what ?

Mistress of a serving Prime Minister ✓

Owner of the largest brothel in London ✓

Possible first victim of Jack the Ripper ✓

Leader of many suffragettes protesting for the right to vote ✓

5. 1879 - January record of snow falls in New York City, (broken Jan 7, 1996), how deep was the snow ?

8 inches ✓

24 inches ✓

13 inches ✓

9 inches ✓

6. 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to what ?

The Samoan Islands ✓

Tahiti ✓

Puerto Rico ✓

Aleutian Islands ✓

7. 1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in which city ?

Lisbon, Portugal ✓

London, England ✓

Rome, Italy ✓

Paris, France ✓

8. 1936 - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in which US state ?

Georgia ✓

Florida ✓

Louisiana ✓

Alabama ✓

9. 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian, dies as a consequence of what type of tragedy ?

Plane Crash ✓

Sinking Ship ✓

Car Crash ✓

Train Crash ✓

10. 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens from Brownsville Texas, to which US city ?

Boston ✓

Chicago ✓

Detroit ✓

New York ✓

11. 1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer is born in which town in England ?

Croyden ✓

Leatherhead ✓

Barking ✓

Milton Keynes ✓

12. 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to which African country ?

Ethiopia ✓

Egypt ✓

Somalia ✓

Libya ✓

13. 1980 which "Beatle" is arrested at Tokyo International Airport for possession of marijuana; he is sent to jail for nine days before being deported ?

John Lennon ✓

Paul McCartney ✓

George Harrison ✓

Ringo Starr ✓

14. Today is National Religious Freedom Day in which country ?

UK ✓

Australia ✓

New Zealand ✓

USA ✓

15. 2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards a posthumous Medal of Honor to which former President?

Theodore Roosevelt ✓

Abraham Lincoln ✓

Grover Cleveland ✓

Calvin Coolidge ✓

16. 2010 - Glen Bell dies in California at the age of 86. Of which fast-food chain was he the founder?

In-N-Out Burger ✓

Papa John's ✓

Taco Bell ✓

Dunkin' Donuts ✓

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