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On This Day (September 2nd) Multiple Choice

Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on September 2nd ?
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1. 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings. It started at a bakery in which street ?
Baker Street ✓
Pudding Lane ✓
Drury Lane ✓
Malet Street ✓
2. 1752 – Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, starts using what ?
Greenwich Mean Time ✓
Union Flag ✓
Gregorian Calendar ✓
Paid Employees instead of Slaves ✓
3. 1806 – A massive landslide destroys which Swiss town ?
Goldau ✓
Brienz ✓
Zug ✓
Mollis ✓
4. 1807 – The British Royal Navy bombards which city with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent the nation from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon ?
The Hague ✓
Bremen ✓
Bergen ✓
Copenhagen ✓
5. 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the State Fair of which state ?
Kentucky ✓
Minnesota ✓
South Dakota ✓
Wisconsin ✓
6. 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first of which award of the Boy Scouts of America ?
Star Scout ✓
Life Scout ✓
Eagle Scout ✓
Tenderfoot ✓
7. 1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, which city is annexed by Nazi Germany ?
Danzig (Gdansk) ✓
Stettin (Szczecin) ✓
Breslau (Wrocław) ✓
Posen (Poznań) ✓
8. 1945 – World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed and accepted aboard which battleship in Tokyo Bay ?
USS Massachusetts ✓
USS Maryland ✓
USS Mississippi ✓
USS Missouri ✓
9. 1946 – The Interim Government of which country is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister ?
Pakistan ✓
India ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Bangladesh ✓
10. 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to which country ?
South Africa ✓
North Korea ✓
Australia ✓
East Timor ✓
11. 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Civil War of which African country ?
Nigeria ✓
Sierra Leone ✓
Senegal ✓
Angola ✓
12. 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in which city ?
Los Angeles, USA ✓
Sydney, Australia ✓
Monterrey, Mexico ✓
Rio de Janiero, Brazil ✓
13. 1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew what make of airplane into Red Square in May ?
Beechcraft Bonanza ✓
Diamond DA40 ✓
Piper Cherokee ✓
Cessna 172 ✓
14. 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near which Nova Scotia town ?
Port Dufferin ✓
Shubenacadie ✓
Peggy's Cove ✓
Pubnico ✓
15. 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates which island nation ?
Bahamas ✓
Barbados ✓
St. Kitts and Nevis ✓
St. Vincent and the Grenadines ✓
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