On This Day (December 18th) Multiple Choice

1. 1499 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of people of which religion in Spain ?

2. 1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in which present-day country ?

3. 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in which month ?

4. 1787 – Which state becomes the third to ratify the U.S. Constitution ?

5. 1793 – The French frigate "La Lutine" surrenders to Lord Samuel Hood. It is renamed as what, only to later become a famous treasure wreck ?

6. 1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of which nation ?

7. 1892 – The Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky takes place in which city ?

8. 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph in a Jeantaud car. By what was the car powered ?

9. 1944 – World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb a Japanese supply base in which city ?

10. 1966 – Which of Saturn's moons is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker ?

11. 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, is launched from Baikonur in what is now Kazakhstan. What was the former name of Baikonur ?

12. 2005 – The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups launch an attack in Adré.They are allegedly backed by which neighbouring nation ?

13. 2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes which country ? The death toll of all flooding is at least 118

14. 2006 – Which country holds its first-ever elections ?

15. 2018 – A meteor explodes over which body of water with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 ?