On This Day (July 16th) Multiple Choice

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1. 997 – Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in which country ?

Turkey ✓

Albania ✓

Bulgaria ✓

Greece ✓

2. 1251 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order - but doubted by modern historians - as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of who ?

Jesus ✓

Virgin Mary ✓

Joseph ✓

God ✓

3. 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by a bank in which country ?

Sweden ✓

United Kingdom ✓

France ✓

Switzerland ✓

4. 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission. Over the following decades, it evolves into which city ?

San Francisco ✓

San Jose ✓

San Bernadino ✓

San Diego ✓

5. 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in which country ?

South Africa ✓

Australia ✓

New Zealand ✓

Ireland ✓

6. 1935 – The world's first example of which device is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ?

Traffic Lights ✓

Speed Camera ✓

Parking Meter ✓

Movable Bollard ✓

7. 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for how many consecutive games, a streak that still stands as an MLB record ?

56 ✓

48 ✓

72 ✓

66 ✓

8. 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves which port with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island ?

Seattle ✓

San Francisco ✓

Vancouver ✓

Los Angeles ✓

9. 1948 – The "Miss Macao" passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, is the first commercial aircraft to be subject to what event ?

Forced landing by military ✓

Grounded due to bird strike ✓

Hijacking ✓

Damaged by volcanic ash ✓

10. 1965 – Which road tunnel in the European Alps opens on this day ?

Frejus Tunnel ✓

Mont Blanc Tunnel ✓

Arlberg Road Tunnel ✓

Karawanken Tunnel ✓

11. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from which launch pad ?

Kennedy Space Centre, Florida ✓

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida ✓

Vandenberg Air Force Base, California ✓

Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii ✓

12. 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off which UK island group causing 20 fatalities ?

Outer Hebrides ✓

Shetland Isles ✓

Orkney Isles ✓

Isles of Scilly ✓

13. 2013 – Around 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized in eastern India after eating what ?

Mushrooms ✓

School Lunch ✓

Contaminated Ice Cream ✓

Street Food ✓

14. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in which US city ?.

Huntsville, Alabama ✓

Chattanooga, Tennessee ✓

Lexington, Kentucky ✓

Tulsa, Oklahoma ✓

15. 1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter is born. What was the name of his band ?

The Jacks ✓

The Kings ✓

The Aces ✓

The Queens ✓

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