On This Day (April 22nd) Multiple Choice

1. 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in what is now which country ?

2. 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over which river ?

3. 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates what ?

4. 1889 – Thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and what other city are formed with populations of at least 10,000 ?

5. 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in which battle ?

6. 1944 – World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack a German what ?

7. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Which port is captured from Arab forces ?

8. 1969 – British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world in which vessel ?

9. 1970 – What "Day" is celebrated for the first time ?

10. 1977 – What is used to carry live telephone traffic for the first time ?

11. 1983 – The German magazine "Stern" claims that what had been found in wreckage in East Germany ?

12. 1993 – Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall in which London district ?

13. 2004 – Two fuel trains collide in which Asian country, killing up to 150 people ?

14. 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for what ?

15. 2016 – The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight what ?