On This Day (January 22nd) Multiple Choice

1. 1506 – The first contingent of how many Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican ?

2. 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in which city ?

3. 1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies on which British island ?

4. 1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on which Canadian Island, killing more than 130 people ?

5. 1915 – Over 600 people are killed in which Mexican city, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon ?

6. 1920 – Sir Alf Ramsey, English footballer and coach of the World Cup winning team in 1966 is born in which English town ?

7. 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from which political party ?

8. 1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and which other soccer team ?

9. 1941 – British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from forces of which country during Operation Compass ?

10. 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in which city ?

11. 1957 - Israeli forces withdraw from where ?

12. 1959 - USAF concludes that less than what percentage of UFOs are actually unknown objects ?

13. 1970 – The Boeing 747, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy Airport to which airport ?

14. 1999 - An Australian missionary and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car, in which country?

15. 2005 - Donald Trump weds former model Melania Knauss at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in which city ?

16. 2014 - Water vapour is detected on which dwarf planet ?