On This Day (April 13th) Multiple Choice

1. 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" makes its world-premiere in which city ?

2. 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and do what else ?

3. 1870 – Which New York City museum is founded on this day ?

4. 1873 – The Colfax massacre takes place, in which more than 60 men of what ethnicity are murdered ?

5. 1941 – A Pact of neutrality is signed between the USSR and which other country ?

6. 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches Project MKUltra, it is designed with what objective ?

7. 1958 – American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in which city ?

8. 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for which1963 film ?

9. 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first what ?

10. 1976 – Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in which country ?

11. 1987 – Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in which year ?

12. 1997 – Which golfer becomes the youngest to win the Masters Tournament ?

13. 2017 – The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on which of Afghanistan's provinces ?

14. Today is a memorial day in Slovakia, What is it called ?

15. 1992 - Which World Leader announces he will seek divorce from his wife ?