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On This Day (August 30th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 30th?
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1. 1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as which pope ?
211th
197th
302nd
256th
2. 1594 – The christening of Prince Henry of Scotland is celebrated with the Masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at which castle ?
Edinburgh Castle
Stirling Castle
Glamis Castle
Eilean Donan Castle
3. 1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground the previous day in which place ?
Dogger Bank
Bosphurus Strait
Galapagos Islands
Great Barrier Reef
4. 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion, but is arrested before he can make it happen in which US city ?
Savannah, Georgia
Richmond, Virginia
Charlotte, North Carolina
Baltimore, Maryland
5. 1835 – Which Australian city is founded ?
Cairns
Perth
Melbourne
Darwin
6. 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover which archipelago ?
Galapagos Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
South Sandwich Islands
Franz Josef Land
7. 1916 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on which island in Antarctica ?
Elephant Island
South Georgia
Coronation Island
Deception Island
8. 1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures which world leader ?
Louis Botha
Vladimir Lenin
Georges Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
9. 1941 – The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues is signed between Germany and which other country ?
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Albania
10. 1945 – The Japanese occupation of which city comes to an end ?
Shanghai
Taipei
Manila
Hong Kong
11. 1963 – The hotline between the leaders of which two nations goes into operation ?
United States and Soviet Union
United Kingdom and United States
China and Japan
Soviet Union and China
12. 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American to hold which position ?
Mayor of New Orleans
Surgeon General
Justice of the Supreme Court
White House Chief of Staff
13. 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in which city ?
Budapest
Zagreb
Vienna
Munich
14. 1984 – Which Space Shuttle takes off on its maiden voyage ?
Discovery
Challenger
Enterprise
Endeavour
15. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Which country declares independence on this day ?
Georgia
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Azerbaijan
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