On This Day (June 21st) Multiple Choice

1. 1749 – Which Canadian city is founded ?

2. 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at which battle ?

3. 1898 – The United States captures which island from Spain ?

4. 1900 – Boxer Rebellion. In an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi, China declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, and which other two nations ?

5. 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the general strike in which city ?

6. 1919 – Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in which body of water ?

7. 1942 – World War II: Which North African port falls to Italian and German forces ?

8. 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near which river, firing 17 shells in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland ?

9. 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female what ?

10. 1963 – Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as which Pope ?

11. 1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opened at which London theatre ?

12. 2004 – The first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight takes off. What was it called ?

13. 2006 – Which heavenly body's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra ?

14. 2009 – Which territory assumes self-rule ?

15. 1950 – Joey Kramer, American drummer and songwriter is born. He is the drummer of which band ?