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On This Day (July 16th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 16th?
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1. 997 – Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in which country ?
Turkey
Albania
Bulgaria
Greece
2. 1251 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order - but doubted by modern historians - as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of who ?
Jesus
Virgin Mary
Joseph
God
3. 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by a bank in which country ?
Sweden
United Kingdom
France
Switzerland
4. 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission. Over the following decades, it evolves into which city ?
San Francisco
San Jose
San Bernadino
San Diego
5. 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in which country ?
South Africa
Australia
New Zealand
Ireland
6. 1935 – The world's first example of which device is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ?
Traffic Lights
Speed Camera
Parking Meter
Movable Bollard
7. 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for how many consecutive games, a streak that still stands as an MLB record ?
56
48
72
66
8. 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves which port with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island ?
Seattle
San Francisco
Vancouver
Los Angeles
9. 1948 – The "Miss Macao" passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, is the first commercial aircraft to be subject to what event ?
Forced landing by military
Grounded due to bird strike
Hijacking
Damaged by volcanic ash
10. 1965 – Which road tunnel in the European Alps opens on this day ?
Frejus Tunnel
Mont Blanc Tunnel
Arlberg Road Tunnel
Karawanken Tunnel
11. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from which launch pad ?
Kennedy Space Centre, Florida
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii
12. 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off which UK island group causing 20 fatalities ?
Outer Hebrides
Shetland Isles
Orkney Isles
Isles of Scilly
13. 2013 – Around 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized in eastern India after eating what ?
Mushrooms
School Lunch
Contaminated Ice Cream
Street Food
14. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in which US city ?.
Huntsville, Alabama
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Lexington, Kentucky
Tulsa, Oklahoma
15. 1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter is born. What was the name of his band ?
The Jacks
The Kings
The Aces
The Queens
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