On This Day (August 2nd) Multiple Choice

1. 1343 – After the execution of her husband, Jeanne de Clisson sells her estates and raises a force of men with which to take revenge by attacking shipping in which area ?

2. 1415 – Thomas Grey is executed for participating in the Southampton Plot. The Southampton Plot was a plan to do what ?

3. 1610 – During Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage, he sails into what is now known as what ?

4. 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in which city ?

5. 1914 – World War I: The German occupation of country begins ?

6. 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in which city ?

7. 1922 – What kills more than 50.000 people in Shantou, Republic of China ?

8. 1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of which President ?

9. 1944 – World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches to Britain. How many ships were in the convoy ?

10. 1947 – A British South American Airways airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. The wreckage would not be found until which year ?

11. 1973 – A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre on which European island ?

12. 1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in which Italian city ?

13. 1989 – Which country is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.

14. 1990 – Iraq invades which country ?

15. 2005 – Air France Flight 358 lands at which airport and runs off the runway, causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries but no fatalities ?