On This Day (December 13th) Multiple Choice

1. 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from which English port on his round-the-world voyage ?

2. 1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight which land ?

3. 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in which English county ?

4. 1758 – The English transport ship Duke William sinks in which body of water killing over 360 people ?

5. 1928 – Which of George Gershwin's compositions is performed for the first time ?

6. 1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of which German city ?

7. 1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to which city ?

8. 1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of which island nation ?

9. 1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions of what ?

10. 1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in which city ?

11. 1989 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near which Northern Irish village ?

12. 2001 – Sansad Bhavan is attacked by terrorists killing twelve people, including the terrorists. It is the Parliament building of which country?

13. 2002 – The EU announces that Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on which date ?

14. 2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near which Iraqi town ?

15. 2018 – A high-speed train crashes killing at least nine people and injuring 84 in which capital city ?