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On This Day (April 3rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 3rd ?
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1. 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of which country ?
France
Scotland
Denmark
England
2. 1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for what crime ?
Murder
Treason
War Crimes
Profiteering
3. 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run begins from St. Joseph, Missouri, to which other city ?
Sacramento, California
New Orleans, Louisiana
Miami, Florida
New York, New York
4. 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills which outlaw ?
Billy the Kid
Butch Cassidy
Jesse James
Buffalo Bill
5. 1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women occurs in or near which district in the East End of London ?
Hackney
Whitechapel
Forest Gate
Wapping
6. 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of what ?
Homosexuality
Fraud
Misrepresentation
Libel
7. 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. What happened to him the following day ?
He won a Peace Prize
He was arrested
He was assassinated
Taken ill and died
8. 1973 – Martin Cooper of which company makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs ?
Nokia
Motorola
NEC
Bell Labs
9. 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at a Computer Fair in which US city ?
San Francisco
New York
Dallas
Chicago
10. 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his cabin in which of the United States ?
Wyoming
Maine
North Dakota
Montana
11. 2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 what ?
Politicians
Ship Owners
Offshore Companies
Drug Barons
12. 1922 - Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff is born in Cincinatti on this day. By what name is she better known ?
Rosemary Clooney
Shirley Temple
Cyd Charisse
Doris Day
13. 1953 - American magazine "TV Guide" publishes its first issue, What is featured on the cover ?
Lucille Ball's Baby
Ed Sullivan's Home
"This is Your Life" Red Book
"Dragnet" Police Badge
14. 1964 - The Beatles hold all of the top 6 spots on the record charts in which city ?
London, England
Sydney, Australia
Hamburg, Germany
Cape Town, South Africa
15. 2007 - During an interview Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards denies saying he smoked what ?
Marijuana
100 Cigarettes per Day
His Fathers Ashes
Salmon from his own river
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