On This Day (July 23rd) Multiple Choice

1. 1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off the coast of which Greek island ?

2. 1632 – Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from which French port ?

3. 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of which Portuguese overseas territory ?

4. 1885 – President Ulysses S. Grant dies of cancer of which part of his body ?

5. 1919 – Prince Regent Aleksander Karađorđević signs the decree establishing the University in which Balkan city ?

6. 1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in which city ?

7. 1943 – The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, England. Rayleigh is in which English county ?

8. 1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in which central American country ?

9. 1962 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into which Hall of Fame ?

10. 1983 – Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. The flight was from Montreal to which city ?

11. 1992 – Abkhazia declares independence from which nation ?

12. 1999 – Which Space Shuttle launches, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander ?

13. 2005 – Three bombs explode, killing 88 people in which Egyptian city ?

14. 1983 – Bec Hewitt, Australian actress is born. She is best known for her role in which Australian soap opera ?

15. Which food is celebrated on this day in the USA ?