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1. 1565 – Which modern day "megacity" is founded ?
Rio de Janiero
Chengdu
Chennai
Mexico City
2. 1628 – Charles I of England mandated that every county in England pay which tax by this date?
Window Tax
Bedroom Tax
Ship Tax
Tollgate Tax
3. 1692 – Sarah Good is brought before local magistrates in a village in Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as what ?
Slave Revolts
Salem Witch Trials
Cotton Theft Trial
First Serial Killers Trial
4. 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from which country ?
Mexico
United Kingdom
United States
Spain
5. 1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex which area ?
Puerto Rico
Alaska
Hawai'i
Republic of Texas
6. 1854 – German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg, Germany after how long?
Six Months
Three Weeks
Two Years
A Decade
7. 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; The city of Lincoln becomes the state capital after having its name changed from what ?
York
Lancaster
Chester
London
8. 1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of which war ?
Bolivian War
Uruguayan War
Venezuelan War
Paraguayan War
9. 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train, killing 96 people, in which state?
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
10. 1946 – Which UK institution is nationalised ?
Great Western Railway
Bank of England
British Road Services
British Broadcasting Corporation
11. 1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress, best known for playing Daisy Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard is born in which city ?
Lexington, Kentucky
Knoxville, Tennessee
Rock Hill, South Carolina
Warren, Ohio
12. 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on which heavenly body becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface ?
Venus
Mars
Moon
Mercury
13. 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in which British prison ?
HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow
HMP Strangeways, Manchester
HMP Maze, Antrim
HMP Frankland, Durham
14. 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article. What is it about ?
MoonJune Record Label
Jordanhill Railway Station, Scotland
Priscilla Wright (singer)
Arabi Malayalam Writing System
15. 2008 - Ten people are killed when Armenian police clash with a peaceful protest against what?
Fraudulent Presidential Elections
Police Brutality
High Inflation
National Minimum Wage
16. 2014 - 35 people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at which Chinese railway station?