On This Day (January 7th) Multiple Choice

1. 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of which European country ?

2. 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in what way ?

3. 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established between which two cities ?

4. 1928 – A disastrous flood of which English river kills 14 people and causes extensive damage ?

5. 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in which battle ?

6. 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of what ?

7. 1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, is born in which city ?

8. 1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in which Southern US city ?

9. 1975 - Fans of which band riot before a Boston concert causing $30,000 damage ?

10. January 7th is "Victory Over Genocide Day" in which country ?

11. 1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out which company ?

12. 1983 - President Reagan ends US arms embargo against which Central American country ?

13. 2007 – Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and host of BBC's Mastermind dies at 77 of which illness ?

14. 2015 – Twelve people are killed when terrorists open fire at the offices of which Parisian magazine?

15. 2018 -15 inches of snow falls in which unlikely place ?

16. 2020 - Several earthquakes kill four people on which Caribbean island?