On This Day (February 13th) Multiple Choice

1. 1542 – Which wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery ?

2. 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in which city for his trial before the Inquisition ?

3. 1692 – Massacre of Glencoe: Around 80 people from which clan are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange ?

4. 1867 – Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying the primary river and creating the modern central boulevards in which city ?

5. 1931 – Which institution completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi ?

6. 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor known for his upper-middle class, macho image and "hellraiser" lifestyle was born in which part of London ?

7. 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to which German city to conduct a massive aerial bombardment ?

8. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", which country becomes the fourth nation to possess nuclear weapons ?

9. 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, that appears to encase what item ?

10. 1978 – A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman, in which Australian city ?

11. 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in which US city ?

12. 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale kills at least 944 people in which country ?

13. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest which animal ?

14. 2012 - The European Space Agency conducts the first launch of the Vega Rocket from a spaceport in which region?

15. 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is assassinated at which airport ?

16. 2021 - A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in which US state?