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On This Day (July 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 12th?
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1. AD 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of which city after a six-month siege ?
Jerusalem ✓
Troy ✓
Babylon ✓
Rome ✓
2. 1527 – Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty in which country ?
China ✓
Vietnam ✓
Cambodia ✓
Japan ✓
3. 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at which Palace ?
Westminster Palace ✓
Buckingham Palace ✓
Kensington palace ✓
Hampton Court Palace ✓
4. 1576 – The Mughal Empire annexes which region after a victory at the Battle of Raj Mahal ?
Kashmir ✓
Punjab ✓
Bengal ✓
Tibet ✓
5. 1776 – Captain James Cook begins which of his voyages ?
Second ✓
Third ✓
First ✓
Fourth ✓
6. 1801 – British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of where ?
Tangier ✓
Majorca ✓
Marseille ✓
Algeciras ✓
7. 1913 – Serbian forces begin their siege of which Bulgarian city ?
Vidin ✓
Varna ✓
Sofia ✓
Plovdiv ✓
8. 1920 – A Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of whish nation ?
Estonia ✓
Latvia ✓
Lithuania ✓
Moldova ✓
9. 1961 – Which Indian city floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people ?
Nashik ✓
Pune ✓
Rajkot ✓
Hyderabad ✓
10. 1962 – Which famous band perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club ?
The Rolling Stones ✓
The Who ✓
The Beatles ✓
Led Zeppelin ✓
11. 1963 – Pauline Reade, 16, the first victim in the Moors murders, disappears from which area of Manchester, England ?
Denton ✓
Openshaw ✓
Gorton ✓
Levenshulme ✓
12. 1979 – Which island nation becomes independent from the United Kingdom ?
Vanuatu ✓
Nauru ✓
Solomon Islands ✓
Kiribati ✓
13. 2012 – A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, in which African country ?
Niger ✓
Nigeria ✓
Senegal ✓
Ghana ✓
14. 1950 – Eric Carr, American drummer and songwriter is born. He is best known as the drummer for which band ?
KISS ✓
Metallica ✓
Red Hot Chili Peppers ✓
Van Halen ✓
15. July 12 is also known as Orangemen's Day predominantly in which region ?
Wallonia, Belgium ✓
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa ✓
Northern Ireland, UK ✓
New England, USA ✓
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