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On This Day (February 17th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on February 17th ?
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1. 1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by which date as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar ?
February 26th
March 7th
March 1st
February 20th
2. 1854 – The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of which now defunct country ?
Orange Free State
Abyssinia
Mesopotamia
Zanzibar
3. 1859 – Cochinchina Campaign: The French Navy captured the Citadel of which city ?
Rangoon
Saigon
Constantinople
Peking
4. 1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which would later become known as what ?
Red Crescent
Medecin sans Frontieres
Red Cross
UNHCR
5. 1864 – American Civil War: The "H. L. Hunley" becomes the first what to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic ?
Submarine
Ironclad Battleship
Land based Field Gun
Hot Air Balloon
6. 1867 – The first ship passes through which Canal ?
Erie Canal
Kiel Canal
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
7. 1904 – Which opera receives its première at La Scala in Milan, Italy ?
La Boheme
Madama Butterfly
Carmen
The Marriage of Figaro
8. 1934 – Barry Humphries, Australian comedian, actor, and author, known for his character portrayal of Dame Edna Everage is born in which Australian city ?
Sydney
Melbourne
Perth
Darwin
9. 1972 – Cumulative sales of which car exceed those of the Ford Model T ?
Volkswagen Beetle
Austin Mini Cooper
Citroen 2CV
Hindustan Ambassador
10. 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes which building in a stolen helicopter ?
Pentagon
Empire State Building
Capitol Building
The White House
11. 1995 – The Cenepa War between which two countries ends with a ceasefire brokered by the UN ?
Venezuela and Colombia
Peru and Ecuador
Iran and Iraq
Haiti and Dominican Republic
12. 1996 – In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats which opponent in a chess match ?
Alexander Beliavsky
Anatoly Karpov
Deep Blue super-computer
Nigel Short
13. 2006 – A massive mudslide, with an official death toll of 1,126, occurs in the area of Southern Leyte, in which Asian country ?
Philippines
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
14. 2008 – Kosovo declares independence from which nation ?
Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Albania
Serbia
15. 2015 - Eighteen people die in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in which country?
Haiti
St. Lucia
Guyana
United States
16. 2016 - Military vehicles explode in an attack outside an Armed Forces barracks in which city?
Baghdad, Iraq
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Ankara, Turkey
Kandy, Sri Lanka
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