On This Day (January 18th) Multiple Choice

1. 1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds which South American city ?

2. 1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st sighting of what ?

3. 1778 – James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, what does he name them ?

4. 1788 - Ships carrying what for the first time arrive in Botany Bay Australia ?

5. 1882 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, playwright and creator of Winnie the Pooh is born in which area of London, England ?

6. 1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of which ship, named after a US state, anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship ?

7. 1919 - Which luxury car maker is founded on this day ?

8. 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate dies in London at age 70. He was later to have a crater on which planet named after him ?

9. 1951 - A lie detector is used for the first time in which country?

10. 1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with which team ?

11. 1960 – Which airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, their third fatal crash in as many years ?

12. 1964 - The Beatles make their first appearance on the US Billboard Chart with which single ?

13. 1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on which TV network ?

14. 1990 – Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for what in an FBI sting operation ?

15. 2002 – Civil War is declared over in which African country ?

16. 2023 - A helicopter crash kills 14 including which country's Interior Minister ?