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On This Day (October 6th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on October 6th?
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1. 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: Forces of the Roman Republic subdue which kingdom ?
Kummuhu ✓
Macedonia ✓
Armenia ✓
Mesopotamia ✓
2. 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of which of her pregnancies ?
Seventh ✓
Eighth ✓
Fifth ✓
Second ✓
3. 1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of which people to America ?
Italian ✓
German ✓
Greek ✓
Dutch ✓
4. 1762 – Seven Years' War: The British capture which city from Spain and occupy it ?
Santander ✓
Singapore ✓
Kingston ✓
Manila ✓
5. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on which river ?
Tennessee ✓
Hudson ✓
St. Lawrence ✓
Missouri ✓
6. 1854 – In England the Great Fire of Newcastle and which other town leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured ?
Gateshead ✓
Durham ✓
Sunderland ✓
North Shields ✓
7. 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in which state ?
Maine ✓
New Jersey ✓
Connecticut ✓
Rhode Island ✓
8. 1903 – The High Court of which country sits for the first time ?
India ✓
Rhodesia ✓
Australia ✓
Argentina ✓
9. 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of which nation for the first of seven times ?
Cyprus ✓
Greece ✓
Albania ✓
Malta ✓
10. 1943 – World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a Nazi paramilitary group on which Greek island ?
Crete ✓
Corfu ✓
Mykonos ✓
Rhodes ✓
11. 1973 – Which two countries launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War ?
Syria and Jordan ✓
Jordan and Lebanon ✓
Egypt and Lebanon ✓
Egypt and Syria ✓
12. 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit which famous landmark ?
White House ✓
Buckingham Palace ✓
Machu Picchu ✓
Red Square ✓
13. 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm estate in which district of London ?
Enfield ✓
Tottenham ✓
Knightsbridge ✓
Tower Hamlets ✓
14. 1987 – Which Pacific nation becomes a republic ?
Samoa ✓
Tonga ✓
Vanuatu ✓
Fiji ✓
15. 1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun is discovered in which constellation ?
Andromeda ✓
Centaurus ✓
Pegasus ✓
Orion ✓
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