On This Day (April 7th) Multiple Choice

1. 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's "St John Passion", at St. Nicholas Church, in which city ?

2. 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and which other country ?

3. 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the which river ?

4. 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells for the first time an item he had invented the previous year, what was it ?

5. 1906 – Which volcano erupts and devastates the nearby city ?

6. 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be have which honour ?

7. 1946 – Which country's independence from France is officially recognised ?

8. 1949 – Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards, was opened on Broadway ?

9. 1964 – What kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio ?

10. 1968 – Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at which circuit ?

11. 1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party in the UK after being arrested on what charge ?

12. 1989 – Soviet submarine "Komsomolets" sinks, killing 42 sailors, in which sea?

13. 1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over what product ?

14. 2009 – Mass protests begin across which country under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent ?

15. 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor is born in which city ?