On This Day (March 12th) Multiple Choice

1. 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to which Italian city ?

2. 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of which religious order are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church ?

3. 1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable founds a settlement now known as what ?

4. 1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in which city ?

5. 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg had held this status for how many years ?

6. 1928 – The St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people in which State ?

7. 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins a 200-mile march to the sea to protest against what ?

8. 1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of what ?

9. 1950 – The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when their aircraft crashes in South Wales. At the time the world's deadliest air disaster. What type of airplane crashed ?

10. 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of which Asian country ?

11. 1968 – Which island nation achieves independence from the United Kingdom ?

12. 1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, founder member of Britpop band Blur, is born in which country ?

13. 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join which organisation ?

14. 2003 – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of which virus ?

15. 2009 – Which financier pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history ?

16. 2020 - Due to Covid-19 the United States suspends travel from which continent?