On This Day (April 19th) Multiple Choice

1. 1608 – In Ireland: O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of which town ?

2. 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai that is held by which nations troops ?

3. 1770 – Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia, although he is still holding the which rank ?

4. 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries which king of France in a proxy wedding ?

5. 1782 – John Adams secures a Dutch recognition of the US government. The first American embassy is the house he had purchased in which city ?

6. 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity in which of her plays ?

7. 1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with what substance for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16 ?

8. 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco. Where did they honeymoon ?

9. 1971 – Which African country becomes a republic with Siaka Stevens as the president ?

10. 1971 – The Launch of Salyut 1, the first what ?

11. 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and what other colour as the national colours ?

12. 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on which TV show ?

13. 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin from which city ?

14. 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and is known by what name ?

15. 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since when ?