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1. 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first what of England ?
Astronomer Royal
Poet Laureate
Witchfinder General
Lord Protector
2. 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become what ?
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Maryland
Pennsylvania
3. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of which city ?
Savannah
Boston
Charleston
Pensacola
4. 1790 – France is divided into how many départements?
83
65
97
104
5. 1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons which envisages the separation of which country into Upper and Lower regions ?
India
Pakistan
Canada
Australia
6. 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in which colony ?
Ceylon
Ireland
New Zealand
New South Wales
7. 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in the east of which city ?
London
Manchester
Birmingham
Leeds
8. 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, killing around 300 people with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to how far inland ?
2 km (1.24 mi)
1 km (0.62 mi)
5 km (3.10 mi)
7 km (4.34 mi)
9. 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American comedy actress, known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" is born in Bay Village on the shores of which lake ?
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Lake Superior
10. 1960 – The French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in which city, killing 100 ?
Marseille, France
Havana, Cuba
Durban, South Africa
Perth, Australia
11. 1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is more popular than who ?
Jesus
Elvis
God
The Queen
12. 1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500 people, mostly in which city ?
Tirana, Albania
Varna, Bulgaria
Bucharest, Romania
Patras, Greece
13. 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of which heavenly body ?
Ganymede
Mercury
Halley's Comet
Kuiper Belt
14. 2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump, killing at least 250 people in which African city ?
Khartoum
Dar es Salaam
Abuja
Brazzaville
15. 2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in which English city ?
Salisbury
Lincoln
York
Exeter
16. 2020 - Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to tightrope walk over the Masaya Volcano in which country?