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2018_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack

2018

Question 1 of 5

Which of the following best describes what happened on January 20?

AA group of four or five gunmen attack The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afgh

BA royal coronation ceremony

CA scientific moon landing

DA major peace treaty signing

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Syrian_civil_war

2018

Question 2 of 5

On January 20, a notable event occurred. Which description matches it?

AA volcanic eruption in Iceland

BSyrian civil war: The Government of Turkey announces the initiation of the Afrin

CThe founding of the United Nations

DA major earthquake in Japan

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2009

Question 3 of 5

Which event took place on January 20 in history?

ADiscovery of penicillin

BFall of the Berlin Wall

CA protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis

DFirst commercial flight

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President_of_the_Philippines

2001

Question 4 of 5

Historians remember January 20 for which of the following?

AFirst Moon walk by astronauts

BSigning of the Magna Carta

CLaunch of the first satellite

DPresident of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day r

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Air_Inter_Flight_148

1992

Question 5 of 5

What significant event is recorded on January 20?

AOpening of the Suez Canal

BAir Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111, crashes into a mountain near Strasbour

CEnd of World War I

DFirst transatlantic telegraph cable

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