On This Day (April 8th) Multiple Choice

1. 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in which city, is dedicated ?

2. 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on which Aegean island ?

3. 1904 – Longacre Square in Manhattan is renamed what ?

4. 1906 – Auguste Deter dies, he was the first person to be diagnosed with which disease ?

5. 1911 – Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers what ?

6. 1918 – Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell what on the streets of New York City's financial district ?

7. 1924 – Sharia courts are abolished as part of reforms by the new leader in which country ?

8. 1950 – India and which other country sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact ?

9. 1952 – In an attempt to avert a workers strike, U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic what ?

10. 1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over which city ?

11. 1975 – In his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager Frank Robinson manages which team ?

12. 2006 – The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Ontario. The murders are linked to which motorcycle club ?

13. 2008 – The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in which country ?

14. 1953 - Jomo Kenyatta is convicted of involvement with the Mau Mau rebellion and sentenced to how many years in a Kenyan jail ?

15. 1983 - In front of a live audience of 20 tourists, David Copperfield makes which landmark disappear ?