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On This Day (July 23rd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on July 23rd?
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1. 1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off the coast of which Greek island ?
Crete
Chios
Corfu
Mikanos
2. 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from which French port ?
Dieppe
Le Havre
Marseille
Caen
3. 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of which Portuguese overseas territory ?
Macau, China
Sao Tome and Principe
Goa, India
Portugese Timor
4. 1885 – President Ulysses S. Grant dies of cancer of which part of his body ?
Lung
Prostate
Brain
Throat
5. 1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University in which Balkan city ?
Zagreb
Ljubljana
Podgorica
Skopje
6. 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in which city ?
Bombay
Delhi
Madras
Calcutta
7. 1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, England. Rayleigh is in which English county ?
West Sussex
Essex
Cambridgeshire
Suffolk
8. 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in which central American country ?
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
9. 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into which Hall of Fame ?
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
International Tennis Hall of Fame
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame
National Baseball Hall of Fame
10. 1983 – Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. The flight was from Montreal to which city ?
Regina
Edmonton
Vancouver
Anchorage
11. 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from which nation ?
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Russia
12. 1999 – Which Space Shuttle launches, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander ?
Discovery
Atlantis
Columbia
Endeavour
13. 2005 – Three bombs explode, killing 88 people in which Egyptian city ?
Cairo
Sharm el-Sheikh
Luxor
Alexandria
14. 1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress is born. She is best known for her role in which Australian soap opera ?
Neighbours
Prisoner: Cell Block H
Sons and Daughters
Home and Away
15. Which food is celebrated on this day in the USA ?
National Hot Dog Day
National Fortune Cookie Day
National Lollipop Day
National Caesar Salad Day
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