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On This Day (October 15th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 15th?
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1. 1529 – The siege of which city ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion ?
Budapest ✓
Prague ✓
Vienna ✓
Graz ✓
2. 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent in a suburb of which French city ?
Paris ✓
Lyon ✓
Strasbourg ✓
Toulouse ✓
3. 1809 – The Viceroy the Río de la Plata, Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros, opens which port to trade with nations other than Spain ?
Montevideo ✓
Buenos Aires ✓
Maracaibo ✓
Lima ✓
4. 1815 – Napoleon begins his exile on which island in the Atlantic Ocean ?
Tristan da Cunha ✓
South Georgia ✓
Ascension Island ✓
St. Helena ✓
5. 1917 – World War I: Dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage. What was her nationality ?
Dutch ✓
Belgian ✓
German ✓
French ✓
6. 1928 – The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst in which of the United States ?
New York ✓
Maryland ✓
New Jersey ✓
Massachusetts ✓
7. 1932 – Tata Airlines makes its first flight. By what name was it later known ?
Royal Nepal Airlines ✓
Air India ✓
Drukair ✓
Biman Bangladesh Airlines ✓
8. 1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of which modern medicine ?
Viagra ✓
Ibuprofen ✓
Paracetomol ✓
Birth Control Pill ✓
9. 1956 – The first modern computer language is first shared with the coding community.What was it called ?
FLOW-MATIC ✓
FORTRAN ✓
UNICODE ✓
COMPOOL ✓
10. 1979 – A coup d'état in overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins a 12 year-long Civil War in which country ?
El Salvador ✓
Haiti ✓
Honduras ✓
Venezuela ✓
11. 1994 – The Clinton administration returns which country's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide ?
Dominican Republic ✓
Haiti ✓
Trinidad and Tobago ✓
Guatemala ✓
12. 1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to which planet ?
Neptune ✓
Jupiter ✓
Mars ✓
Saturn ✓
13. 2003 – China launches its first manned space mission. What was the craft called ?
Chang'e 1 ✓
Shuguang 1 ✓
Shenzhou 5 ✓
Tiangong 2 ✓
14. 2005 – A planned neo-Nazi protest against African-American street gangs sets off a riot in which city ?
Toledo, Ohio ✓
Wichita, Kansas ✓
Savannah, Georgia ✓
Ann Arbor, Michigan ✓
15. 2007 – Seventeen activists are arrested in which country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids ?
Australia ✓
New Zealand ✓
South Africa ✓
United Arab Emirates ✓
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