On This Day (September 13th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 13th ?
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1. 1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to which city to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism ?
Lyon
Geneva
Munich
Luxembourg
2. 1645 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh near which Scottish town ?
Montrose
Newtonmore
Stranraer
Selkirk
3. 1788 – The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, which city becomes the country's temporary capital ?
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Boston
4. 1814 – During the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes what ?
"The Star-Spangled Banner"
"Danny Boy"
"Land of Hope and Glory"
"D'ye ken John Peel"
5. 1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1 1⁄4 inches in diameter being driven through which internal part of his body ?
Heart
Liver
Brain
Lung
6. 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in which way ?
Electric Chair
Falling from a skyscraper under construction
Aspirin overdose
Automobile accident
7. 1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian, the highest peak of which mountain ?
Mount Kenya
Großglockner
Kaufmann Peaks
Mount Elbrus
8. 1923 – Following a military coup, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship in which country ?
Peru
Morocco
Spain
Guatemala
9. 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the Parliament of which country ?
Australia
New Zealand
United Kingdom
Canada
10. 1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use what ?
Disk storage
Mouse
Printed Circuit Boards
CRT Monitor
11. 1962 – An appeals court orders which university to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university ?
Harvard University
University of Alabama
University of Mississippi
Yale University
12. 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 in which European city ?
Berlin
Brussels
Birmingham
Barcelona
13. 1968 – Cold War: Which country leaves the Warsaw Pact ?
Bulgaria
Hungary
Poland
Albania
14. 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa is held. It is led by who ?
Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu
F.W. de Klerk
Walter Sisulu
15. 2018 – The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions in which US state ?
Maryland
Maine
Massachusetts
Minnesota
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