On This Day (July 19th) Multiple Choice

1. AD 64 – The Great Fire of _____ causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of which city ?

2. 1545 – The Tudor warship "Mary Rose" sinks off Portsmouth; in which year is the wreck salvaged ?

3. 1553 – Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after how many days on the throne ?

4. 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of which US river to England ?

5. 1900 – The first line of which city's subway system opens for operation ?

6. 1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first of which sporting event ?

7. 1940 – World War II: Army Order 112 forms which section of the British Army ?

8. 1952 – Opening of the Summer Olympics in which city ?

9. 1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude on X-15 Flight 90. What height in kilometres did he achieve ?

10. 1964 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into which country ?

11. 1976 – Sagarmatha National Park is created in which country ?

12. 1977 – The world's first GPS signal was transmitted from Satellite NTS-2 and received at a facility in which city ?

13. 1979 – The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill. What was the name of the other ship ?

14. 1992 – A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort in which city ?

15. 1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor is born. He is best known as the inventor of which kitchen appliance ?