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On This Day (June 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on June 16th?
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1. 363 – Emperor Julian retreats back up which river burning his fleet of supply ships on the way ?
Tigris
Danube
Euphrates
Po
2. 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of which conflict ?
Hundred Years War
Glyndŵr Rising
Wars of the Roses
Cornish Rebellion
3. 1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of where begins ?
Catalonia
Gibraltar
Tenerife
Guernsey
4. 1819 – An earthquake strikes Western India, raising a 6 m high, 6 km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80 km, that was known as the what ?
Dam of God
Ridge of Shiva
Kali's Fence
Force of Vishnu
5. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his "House Divided" speech in which city ?
Dayton, Ohio
Boston, Massachusetts
Savannah, Georgia
Springfield, Illinois
6. 1903 – Which major motor manufacturer is incorporated on this day ?
Chevrolet
Ford
Rolls-Royce
Volvo
7. 1911 – What company is founded as the "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company" in Endicott, New York ?
Cisco
Dell
IBM
Packard Bell
8. 1940 – A Communist government is installed in which country ?
Lithuania
Cuba
Angola
Italy
9. 1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 uprising in which country are executed ?
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
10. 1963 – Soviet Space Program: The Vostok 6 mission carries the first what into space ?
Monkey
Plant
Dog
Woman
11. 1976 – A non-violent march by 15,000 students turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd in which city ?
Guangzhou, China
Soweto, South Africa
Bogota, Colombia
Sofia, Bulgaria
12. 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on what ?
Tobacco
Chewing Gum
Foreign Land Ownership
Alcohol Advertising
13. 2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified orbital mission lasting how long ?
235 days
469 days
45 days
796 days
14. 2016 – The first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public in which city ?
Hong Kong
Wuhan
Shanghai
Beijing
15. 1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian, one half of the "Laurel and Hardy" duo, is born in which English town ?
Morecambe
Cromer
Ilfracombe
Ulverston
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