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1. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to where ?
England
Wales
France
Ireland
2. 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from which state ?
Iowa
Kansas
Illinois
Missouri
3. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland on the first transatlantic flight, heading for where ?
Dublin, Ireland
Lisbon, Portugal
Glasgow, UK
Casablanca, Morocco
4. 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes which historic person ?.
Marie Antoinette
Cleopatra
Joan of Arc
William Shakespeare
5. 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in New York City and Heathrow in London, is operated by which airline ?
El Al Israel
British Overseas (BOAC)
Pan Am
TWA
6. 1959 – The Triton Fountain in which European Capital city is turned on for the first time ?
Budapest, Hungary
Valletta, Malta
Paris, France
Oslo, Norway
7. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first what, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California ?
Optical Laser
Electron Microscope
MRI Scanner
Digital Thermometer
8. 1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on which heavenly body ?
The Moon
Mars
Mercury
Venus
9. 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of which country ?
Romania
Yugoslavia
Albania
Ukraine
10. 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States states that the addictive properties of what are similar to those of heroin and cocaine ?
Alcohol
Gambling
Sugar
Nicotine
11. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first British monarch to address which organisation ?
Red Crescent
US Congress
World Health Organisation
Oxford University
12. 2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in terrorist attacks in which city ?
Marrakesh
Rabat
Casablanca
Tangier
13. 2005 – Kuwait permits what in a 35–23 National Assembly vote ?
Voting for Women
Allowing Women to Drive
Homosexuality
Immigrant Workers
14. 1953 – Which actor that portrayed James Bond is born on this day ?
Daniel Craig
Pierce Brosnan
Roger Moore
Sean Connery
15. Today is marked in the US as National what day?