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On This Day (September 12th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 12th ?
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1. 1634 – A gunpowder factory explodes in which Mediterranean city ?
Valletta ✓
Marseille ✓
Naples ✓
Tripoli ✓
2. 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to which city in the War of 1812 ?
Boston ✓
Baltimore ✓
Charlotte ✓
Columbus ✓
3. 1848 – A new constitution marks the establishment of which country as a federal state ?
Germany ✓
France ✓
Switzerland ✓
Italy ✓
4. 1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was carrying around 15 tons of what commodity ?
Coal ✓
Pineapples ✓
Cotton ✓
Gold ✓
5. 1915 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh mountain. The survivors were of what nationality ?
Turkish ✓
Armenian ✓
Russian ✓
Persian ✓
6. 1940 – What are discovered in Lascaux, France ?
Cave Paintings ✓
Mammoth Bones ✓
Dinosaur Fossils ✓
Gold Deposits ✓
7. 1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of which land mass ?
Horn of Africa ✓
Iberian Peninsula ✓
West Africa ✓
Scandinavia ✓
8. 1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, in which state ?
Kentucky ✓
California ✓
Maine ✓
West Virginia ✓
9. 1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in which city ?
Newport, Rhode Island ✓
Baltimore, Maryland ✓
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ✓
Dallas, Texas ✓
10. 1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in colour. It was shown on which US network ?
PBS ✓
ABC ✓
NBC ✓
CBS ✓
11. 1962 – President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University in which city ?
Chicago ✓
Houston ✓
Los Angeles ✓
New York ✓
12. 1980 – A military coup takes place in which country ?
Turkey ✓
Sudan ✓
Haiti ✓
Chile ✓
13. 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed by Los Macheteros, an independance faction from where ?
Florida ✓
Puerto Rico ✓
Baja California ✓
Yucatan Peninsula ✓
14. 1994 – Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 in which place ?
Central Park ✓
Niagara Falls ✓
Grand Canyon ✓
White House Lawn ✓
15. 1913 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper is born. He famously won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in which city ?
Barcelona ✓
London ✓
Berlin ✓
Rome ✓
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