On This Day (June 9th) Multiple Choice

1. AD 53 – Which Roman emperor marries Claudia Octavia ?

2. 1311 – Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in which Italian cathedral ?

3. 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map which river ?

4. 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of which future U.S. state ?

5. 1900 – Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of what disease ?

6. 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane. What was it named ?

7. 1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station, allegedly for what reason ?

8. 1934 – Which Disney character makes it's debut in The Wise Little Hen ?

9. 1944 – World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in which French town ?

10. 1959 – The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first of what type of vessel ?

11. 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures which area ?

12. 1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam to burst in which US mountain range ?

13. 1979 – A fire on the "Ghost Train" ride at which amusement park, kills seven people ?

14. 1963 – Johnny Depp, American actor is born in which city ?

15. What food is celebrated on this day, primarily in the USA ?