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1. 1137 – Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in which French city ?
Bordeaux
Reims
Perpignan
Toulouse
2. 1554 – Mary I marries Philip II of Spain in which English cathedral ?
Salisbury
York
Winchester
Lincoln
3. 1609 – The English ship "Sea Venture", en route to Virginia, is driven ashore during a storm to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there. But where ?
Nova Scotia
Bermuda
Virgin Islands
Maine
4. 1792 – The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of which city promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed ?
Brussels
Madrid
London
Paris
5. 1797 – Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of which island ?
Madeira
Tenerife
Majorca
Sardinia
6. 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across which body of water in a heavier-than-air machine ?
English Channel
Strait of Gibraltar
Irish Sea
Kattegat
7. 1917 – Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax as a "temporary" measure in which country ?
United Kingdom
New Zealand
India
Canada
8. 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the army of which country to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal ?
Andorra
Switzerland
Sweden
Algeria
9. 1961 – Cold War: In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on which city is an attack on NATO ?
Washington
London
Berlin
Stockholm
10. 1965 – Which artist goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music ?
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Gordon Lightfoot
Donovan
11. 1978 – Police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders in which overseas territory ?
French Guiana
Puerto Rico
Cayman Islands
Aruba
12. 1996 – Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya in a military coup in which African country ?
Cameroon
Togo
Burundi
Sierra Leone
13. 2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at which airport ?
Amsterdam Schipol
Paris Charles de Gaulle
London Heathrow
Paris Orly
14. 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium and which other country during the July 2019 European heat wave ?
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
15. 1978 – Louise Joy Brown is born in Oldham, UK. What is her claim to fame ?
First winner of "Britains Got Talent"
First National Lottery Jackpot winner
First female to be head of the National Union of Miners