Statistics for On This Day (January 16th) Multiple Choice

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1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have what ?At least two independent means of escape
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1581 - English parliament passes laws against what religion ?Catholicism
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1936 - 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in which US state ?Florida
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1920 – The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in which city ?Paris, France
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1556 – Philip II becomes King of which European country ?Spain
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2010 - Glen Bell dies in California at the age of 86. Of which fast-food chain was he the founder?Taco Bell
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1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to which African country ?Egypt
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1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian, dies as a consequence of what type of tragedy ?Plane Crash
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1864 - Mary Ann Nichols weds printer's machinist William Nichols in London, England. Mary Ann would become famous as what ?Possible first victim of Jack the Ripper
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2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards a posthumous Medal of Honor to which former President?Theodore Roosevelt
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1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to what ?The Samoan Islands
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1879 - January record of snow falls in New York City, (broken Jan 7, 1996), how deep was the snow ?13 inches
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1974 – Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer is born in which town in England ?Croyden
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1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens from Brownsville Texas, to which US city ?New York
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1980 which "Beatle" is arrested at Tokyo International Airport for possession of marijuana; he is sent to jail for nine days before being deported ?Paul McCartney
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Today is National Religious Freedom Day in which country ?USA
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