On This Day (April 26th) Multiple Choice

1. 1478 – The Pazzi family attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in which city's Cathedral ?

2. 1777 – Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces at what age ?

3. 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at which London landmark ?

4. 1933 – Which official secret police force is established ?

5. 1943 – The Easter Riots break out in which city ?

6. 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos on which occupied island ?

7. 1956 – The "SS Ideal X" leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas. She is the first of what type of vessel to be successful ?

8. 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's flagship service from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years. What was it known as ?

9. 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes where ?

10. 1966 – A new government, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye, is formed in which country ?

11. 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human surgery of what type ?

12. 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at which nuclear power plant ?

13. 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, which city would record the year's only F5 tornado ?

14. 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler was born this day. By what name was he known professionally ?

15. 1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor dies, for which film franchise was he best known ?