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On This Day (March 9th) Multiple Choice
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1.
1009 – First known mention, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg, of which country ?
Lithuania
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Liechtenstein
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Latvia
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Luxembourg
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2.
1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, cartographer and explorer is born in which Italian city ?
Rome
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Naples
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Venice
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Florence
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3.
1562 - Kissing in public is banned in Naples and is punishable to what degree ?
Six Months Imprisonment
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Banishment from the city
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Death
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Fifty Lashes
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4.
1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first what in the "Philosophical Magazine" ?
Steam Locomotive
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Mechanical Typewriter
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Battery-operated Clock
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Gas Lamps
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5.
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, how long before the California Gold Rush ?
Seven Months
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Six Years
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Twelve Years
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Eighteen Months
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6.
1935 - Adolf Hitler publically announces the creation of what ?
Luftwaffe
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U - Boats
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Nazi Party
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Concentration Camps
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7.
1945 – World War II: Around 100,000 people are killed and over a million left homeless in the first nocturnal incendiary attack on which city ?
Dresden
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London
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Berlin
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Tokyo
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8.
1956 – Soviet forces, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy, suppress mass demonstrations in which former region of the USSR ?
Georgia
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Kyrgyzstan
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Ukraine
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Azerbaijan
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9.
1959 – Which popular toy makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York ?
G.I.Joe
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Scalextric
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Barbie Doll
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Lego
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10.
1976 – Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date in which range of mountains ?
Caucasus
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Dolomites
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Apennines
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Pyrenees
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11.
1977 - Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in which city?
London
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Brisbane
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Riyadh
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Washington D.C.
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12.
1983 - Zimbabwean opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to which country ?
South Africa
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Mozambique
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Botswana
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Kenya
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13.
1997 – Christopher George Latore Wallace, American rapper, songwriter, and actor is murdered on this day, by what name is he better known ?
Jam Master Jay
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The Notorious B.I.G
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Soulja Slim
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Freaky Tah
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14.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after how many flights ?
39
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43
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27
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19
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15.
2012 - Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin's ex Judith Brown in which city ?
Monroe, Louisiana
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Natchez, Mississippi
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Conway, Arkansas
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Ocala, Florida
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16.
2015 - Two helicopters collide killing all 10 occupants, including producers and guests from French TV survival series Dropped, in which country?
Argentina
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Australia
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France
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Algeria
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