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Sikhio_train_disaster

2026

Question 1 of 5

Which of the following best describes what happened on January 14?

AThirty-two people are killed when a crane falls onto a passenger train in Sikhio

BA royal coronation ceremony

CA scientific moon landing

DA major peace treaty signing

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Abdication_of_Margrethe_II

2024

Question 2 of 5

On January 14, a notable event occurred. Which description matches it?

AA volcanic eruption in Iceland

BQueen Margrethe II abdicates as Queen of Denmark and is succeeded by her son, Fr

CThe founding of the United Nations

DA major earthquake in Japan

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2019

Question 3 of 5

Which event took place on January 14 in history?

ADiscovery of penicillin

BFall of the Berlin Wall

CA Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Provinc

DFirst commercial flight

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Al-Qaeda_insurgency_in_Yemen

2010

Question 4 of 5

Historians remember January 14 for which of the following?

AFirst Moon walk by astronauts

BSigning of the Magna Carta

CLaunch of the first satellite

DYemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda

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Sinking_of_the_MS_Jan_Heweliusz

1993

Question 5 of 5

What significant event is recorded on January 14?

AOpening of the Suez Canal

BSinking of the MS Jan Heweliusz: In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster,

CEnd of World War I

DFirst transatlantic telegraph cable

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