On This Day (April 28th) Multiple Choice

1. 1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the largest Catholic university in the world, in which country ?

2. 1789 – Mutiny on the Bounty: Lieutenant William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for which island ?

3. 1869 – Laborers working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay how many miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched ?

4. 1881 – Which outlaw escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico ?

5. 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins a "long distance" air race between which two cities ?

6. 1920 – Which country is added to the Soviet Union ?

7. 1923 – Wembley Stadium is opened, by what was it initially known ?

8. 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia. What was their vessel called ?

9. 1965 – US troops land in which country to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" ?

10. 1973 – Which album recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run ?

11. 1986 – The United States Navy aircraft carrier "USS Enterprise" becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit which canal ?

12. 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a videotaped testimony for the defense lasting how long ?

13. 1966 – Todd Anthony Shaw, American rapper, producer and actor is born. What is his stage name ?

14. 2001 - Dennis Tito becomes the world's first what ?

15. 2018 - The Indian government announces that what has now reached every Indian village ?