On This Day (January 8th) Multiple Choice

1. 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture a fortress, thereby establishing the independance of which European microstate ?

2. 1790 – In which city does George Washington deliver the first State of the Union address ?

3. 1816 - Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on which subject?

4. 1835 – Which country's national debt is zero for the only time ?

5. 1940 - Britain's World War II food rationing begins with which three items?

6. 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement dies in which African country ?

7. 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on _____" , what ?

8. 1967 - R. Kelly, American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former semi-professional basketball player is born in which city ?

9. 1973 - Actor Michael Caine marries model Shakira Baksh in which US city ?

10. 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Soviet Union, killing seven people. The bombings are attributed to a separatist group from which present day country ?

11. 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into which British motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board ?

12. 1992 - George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits in the lap of which country's Prime Minister?

13. 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for the Mir space station. He would stay on the space station for a record of how many days in space ?

14. 2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by which member of the British Royal family ?

15. 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of which island ?

16. 2020 - Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down with the loss of all souls on board shortly after take-off at which airport?