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On This Day (April 6th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on April 6th ?
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The thumbnail picture is a clue to the number of the day, Have a guess what the connection is in the comments !
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1. 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes which city ?
Cape Town ✓
Dar es Salaam ✓
Muscat ✓
Columbo ✓
2. 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first what ?
Exporter to Russia ✓
Military Supplier ✓
Millionaire ✓
Confirmed Victim of a Bear Attack ✓
3. 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to establish Clemson Agricultural College in which state ?
Tennessee ✓
South Carolina ✓
West Virginia ✓
Kentucky ✓
4. 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, how many years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I ?
1000 ✓
1750 ✓
1250 ✓
1500 ✓
5. 1909 – Although disputed, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach which point on Earth ?
North Pole ✓
South Pole ✓
Mount Everest Base Camp ✓
Source of the Amazon ✓
6. 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, raises which nations flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro ?
Serbia ✓
Bulgaria ✓
Albania ✓
Croatia ✓
7. 1930 – At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire" whilst raising a lump of salt and what other material ?
Tea ✓
Mud ✓
Sugar Cane ✓
Elephant Dung ✓
8. 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines and founds which company ?
Cyprus Airways ✓
Air Malta ✓
Olympic Airlines ✓
Aegean Airlines ✓
9. 1974 – The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with which song ?
Dancing Queen ✓
Waterloo ✓
S.O.S. ✓
Knowing Me, Knowing You ✓
10. 2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near which Italian city killing 307 ?
L'Aquila ✓
Bari ✓
Palermo ✓
Sassari ✓
11. 1722 - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends the tax on what ?
Windows ✓
Dogs ✓
Mead ✓
Men with Beards ✓
12. 1843 - Which person is appointed the British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria ?
Thomas Hardy ✓
William Wordsworth ✓
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ✓
John Keats ✓
13. 1912 - An electric starter is first fitted to which make of car ?
Cadillac ✓
Ford ✓
Rover ✓
Peugeot ✓
14. 1980 - What common item found in most offices is introduced ?
Water Cooler ✓
Staple Puller ✓
Post It Notes ✓
White Board ✓
15. 1992 - Microsoft announces which version of Windows ?
Windows 3.1 ✓
Windows 3.0 ✓
Windows 3.11 ✓
Windows 4 ✓
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