On This Day (April 6th) Multiple Choice

1. 1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes which city ?

2. 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first what ?

3. 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to establish Clemson Agricultural College in which state ?

4. 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, how many years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I ?

5. 1909 – Although disputed, Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach which point on Earth ?

6. 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, raises which nations flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro ?

7. 1930 – At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire" whilst raising a lump of salt and what other material ?

8. 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines and founds which company ?

9. 1974 – The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with which song ?

10. 2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near which Italian city killing 307 ?

11. 1722 - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends the tax on what ?

12. 1843 - Which person is appointed the British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria ?

13. 1912 - An electric starter is first fitted to which make of car ?

14. 1980 - What common item found in most offices is introduced ?

15. 1992 - Microsoft announces which version of Windows ?