On This Day (August 16th) Multiple Choice

1. 1328 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until which year ?

2. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden: The British defeat the Americans near Camden in which state ?

3. 1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field in which English city ?

4. 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with who ?

5. 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, is officially inaugurated and blessed. It is the first church in Asia to be made of what material ?

6. 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of which Canadian river ?

7. 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit what type of student ?

8. 1918 – The Battle of which lake was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army ?

9. 1923 – The United Kingdom gives what name to part of its claimed Antarctic territory ?

10. 1930 – The first British Empire Games, now known as the Commonwealth Games, were opened in which city ?

11. 1942 – World War II: A naval L-class blimp drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in which city in California ?

12. 1960 – Which country gains its independence from the United Kingdom and is doomed forever to be a source of arguments as to it's location ?

13. 1962 – Pete Best is discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by which member ?

14. 1989 – A solar particle event affects computers at the which Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading ?

15. 2012 – Which country's police force fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute ?