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On This Day (September 28th) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 28th ?
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1. 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled, along with Hippolytus of Rome, to which island ?
Elba ✓
Sardinia ✓
Lampedusa ✓
Stromboli ✓
2. 1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives in the place that is now as which Californian city ?
San Diego ✓
San Francisco ✓
Los Angeles ✓
Sacramento ✓
3. 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on which date ?
30th September ✓
15th November ✓
13th October ✓
25th December ✓
4. 1868 – The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to which country ?
France ✓
Portugal ✓
Morocco ✓
United Kingdom ✓
5. 1893 – Foundation of which Portuguese football club ?
Benfica ✓
Chaves ✓
Boavista ✓
Porto ✓
6. 1919 – Race riots begin in which city ?
Birmingham, Alabama ✓
Omaha, Nebraska ✓
Jacksonville, Florida ✓
Savannah, Georgia ✓
7. 1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from which military service ?
United States Army ✓
Royal Air Force ✓
Canadian Flying Corps ✓
Royal Dutch Navy ✓
8. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of which country ?
Finland ✓
Hungary ✓
Poland ✓
Czechoslovakia ✓
9. 1961 – A military coup in which city effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria ?
Cairo ✓
Damascus ✓
Aleppo ✓
Alexandria ✓
10. 1971 – The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of which drug ?
Cannabis ✓
Heroine ✓
Morphine ✓
Opium ✓
11. 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in which city ?
Johannesburg ✓
Montreal ✓
Brisbane ✓
London ✓
12. 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in which sea ?
North ✓
Celtic ✓
Baltic ✓
Mediterranean ✓
13. 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take control of which islands in a coup ?
Comoros ✓
Cape Verde ✓
Andaman Islands ✓
Cayman Islands ✓
14. 2008 – The first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle puts a payload into orbit. What was it called ?
Condor 1 ✓
Falcon 1 ✓
Eagle 1 ✓
Hawk 1 ✓
15. 2016 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. What caused it ?
Terrorism ✓
Sabotage by an ex-employee ✓
Computer Error ✓
Storm Damage ✓
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ducklingpanda1245
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Level 52
Sep 28, 2020
How are you still doing this! Congratulations for yet another nice quiz!
toowise
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Level 78
Sep 28, 2020
Now that I'm down to less than 100 days to the end of the year, I may as well finish it off..It would be wrong to give up now, so close to the end !
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