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On This Day (June 17th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on June 17th?
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1. 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested in the Lateran Palace before being taken to Constantinople and tried for what crime ?
Murder
Treason
Fraud
Theft
2. 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II forcing him to retreat from which region ?
Wallachia
Transylvania
Moldavia
Bessarabia
3. 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion for England. What is Nova Albion called today ?
British Columbia
Newfoundland
California
Florida
4. 1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights and is considered the first European to reach which island ?
Zanzibar
Tahiti
Easter Island
Pitcairn Island
5. 1795 – The burghers of which South African town expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic ?
Swellendam
Piketburg
Kruidfontein
Steinkopf
6. 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives which religion the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands ?
Roman Catholicism
Judaism
Islam
Buddhism
7. 1885 – Which future landmark arrives in New York Harbor ?
Liberty Bell
Gateway Arch
Charles W. Morgan trading vessel
Statue of Liberty
8. 1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. They flew from Lisbon to where ?
Recife
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Porto Alegre
9. 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed outside the Saint-Pierre prison in which city ?
Lyon
Versailles
Marseilles
Lille
10. 1944 – Iceland declares independence from which country and becomes a republic ?
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
United Kingdom
11. 1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into which city to quell a rebellion ?
East Berlin
Leipzig
Dresden
Cottbus
12. 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules against requiring what in public schools ?
Water Fountains
Reciting of the Lord's Prayer
Segregation
Compulsory Tests
13. 1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: Which country announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon ?
China
India
Pakistan
Israel
14. 1943 – Barry Alan Pincus , American singer-songwriter and producer is born in New York. By what name is he better known ?
Bruce Springsteen
Lou Reed
Barry Manilow
Billy Joel
15. 1957 – Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist is also born on this day. He is best known as the guitarist for which Irish band ?
U 2
The Pogues
Boom Town Rats
Thin Lizzy
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