On This Day (April 20th) Multiple Choice

1. 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins his first voyage to what is today the east coast of where ?

2. 1535 – The sun dog phenomenon is observed over which city, as later depicted in the famous painting Vädersolstavlan ?

3. 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at a battle off which island ?

4. 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to members of which religion in New Amsterdam (later New York) ?

5. 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of which state ?

6. 1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, what does the disc measure ?

7. 1908 – Opening day of competition in the which Rugby League ?

8. 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a coal-miners' strike in which state ?

9. 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his last two victims, his final victories before his death the following day. What numbers were they ?

10. 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to which section of the military ?

11. 1968 – Which English politician makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech ?

12. 1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes, killing all 53 people on board, after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in which city ?

13. 2008 – Danica Patrick becomes the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race. Which race ?

14. 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last for approximately how long ?

15. 2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in which Chinese province ?