On This Day (July 16th) Multiple Choice - Statistics

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1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter is born. What was the name of his band ? The Aces
78%
1251 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order - but doubted by modern historians - as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of who ? Virgin Mary
78%
1965 – Which road tunnel in the European Alps opens on this day ? Mont Blanc Tunnel
67%
997 – Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in which country ? Greece
56%
1935 – The world's first example of which device is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ? Parking Meter
56%
1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves which port with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island ? San Francisco
56%
2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in which US city ?. Chattanooga, Tennessee
44%
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 ? Hijacking
33%
1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission. Over the following decades, it evolves into which city ? San Diego
33%
1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in which country ? Australia
22%
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from which launch pad ? Kennedy Space Centre, Florida
22%
2013 – Around 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized in eastern India after eating what ? School Lunch
22%
1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for how many consecutive games, a streak that still stands as an MLB record ? 56
11%
1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off which UK island group causing 20 fatalities ? Isles of Scilly
11%
1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by a bank in which country ? Sweden
11%
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