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On This Day (June 16th) Multiple Choice
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1.
363 – Emperor Julian retreats back up which river burning his fleet of supply ships on the way ?
Tigris
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Danube
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Euphrates
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Po
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1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of which conflict ?
Hundred Years War
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Glyndŵr Rising
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Wars of the Roses
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Cornish Rebellion
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3.
1779 – Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of where begins ?
Catalonia
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Gibraltar
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Tenerife
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Guernsey
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4.
1819 – An earthquake strikes Western India, raising a 6 m high, 6 km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80 km, that was known as the what ?
Dam of God
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Ridge of Shiva
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Kali's Fence
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Force of Vishnu
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5.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his "House Divided" speech in which city ?
Dayton, Ohio
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Boston, Massachusetts
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Savannah, Georgia
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Springfield, Illinois
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6.
1903 – Which major motor manufacturer is incorporated on this day ?
Chevrolet
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Ford
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Rolls-Royce
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Volvo
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7.
1911 – What company is founded as the "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company" in Endicott, New York ?
Cisco
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Dell
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IBM
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Packard Bell
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8.
1940 – A Communist government is installed in which country ?
Lithuania
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Cuba
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Angola
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Italy
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9.
1958 – Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 uprising in which country are executed ?
Romania
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Czechoslovakia
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Hungary
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Yugoslavia
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10.
1963 – Soviet Space Program: The Vostok 6 mission carries the first what into space ?
Monkey
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Plant
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Dog
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Woman
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11.
1976 – A non-violent march by 15,000 students turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd in which city ?
Guangzhou, China
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Soweto, South Africa
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Bogota, Colombia
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Sofia, Bulgaria
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12.
2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on what ?
Tobacco
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Chewing Gum
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Foreign Land Ownership
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Alcohol Advertising
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13.
2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified orbital mission lasting how long ?
235 days
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469 days
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45 days
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796 days
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2016 – The first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public in which city ?
Hong Kong
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Wuhan
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Shanghai
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Beijing
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15.
1890 – Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian, one half of the "Laurel and Hardy" duo, is born in which English town ?
Morecambe
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Cromer
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Ilfracombe
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Ulverston
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