1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France
a) 1916
b) 1920
c) 1924
01
01 C 1924
The first arcade game is patented
a) 1947
b) 1967
c) 1987
02
02 A 1947
The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand"
a) 1964
b) 1965
c) 1967
03
03 A 1964
King Edward III accedes to the English throne
a) 1227
b) 1327
c) 1437
04
04 B 1327
Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail & deported
a) 1970
b) 1975
c) 1980
05
05 C1980
Walt Disney's animated film "101 Dalmatians", based on the novel by Dodie Smith is released in the US
a) 1961
b) 1963
c) 1965
06
06 A 1961
Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264.
A bright radio source and x-ray source. It is the sixth brightest galaxy in a rich cluster of galaxies known as Abell 1367, located at a distance of about 260 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.
a) 1992
b) 2002
c) 2012
07
07 A 1992
Al Capone dies of pneumonia and heart failure after fearing all his life he would suffer a gangsters death
a) 1947
b) 1952
c) 1957
08
08 A 1947
Russia ends state of war with Germany
a) 1945
b) 1950
c) 1955
09
09 C 1955
"M*A*S*H", directed by Robert Altman, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, is released
a) 1970
b) 1974
c) 1978
10
10 A 1970
Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco
a) 1905
b) 1910
c) 1915
11
11 C 1915
Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants 1st heterotopic heart transplant (adding donor heart without removal of old)
a) 1964
b) 1974
c) 1984
12
12 B 1974
Robert Burns was born
a) 1659
b) 1759
c) 1859
13
13 B 1759
1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (LA to NY for $301)
a) 1949
b) 1954
c) 1959
14
14 C 1959
Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
a) 1955
b) 1950
c) 1965
15
15 A 1955
"Stikkan" Stig Anderson, Swedish actor, music entrepreneur and co-founder of Polar Music (ABBA), born in Hova, Sweden (d. 1997)
a) 1931
b) 1941
c) 1951
16
16 A 1931
Russia declared a republic of Soviets
a) 1908
b) 1918
c) 1928
17
17 B 1918
American naval expedition under Charles Wilkes is first to identify Antarctica as a new continent
a) 1840
b) 1890
c) 1940
18
18 A 1840
A new man-made star that was launched into space was noticed in the sky on this day. This 13-story unit known as Echo 2 was traveling about 800 miles above South Africa on this day. Echo 2 was the second busiest and the heaviest of all satellites created up until this time.
a) 1954
b) 1964
c) 1974
19
19 B 1964
1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi
a) 1929
b) 1934
c) 1939
20
20 C 1939
The second of two Nasa rovers sent to explore Mars has landed on the surface of the planet, where it will look for signs of water
a) 1996
b) 2000
c) 2004
21
21 C 2004