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1. 874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, in which city ?
2. 1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel takes place, traditionally regarded as the start of which war?
3. 1781 – William Herschel discovers which planet ?
4. 1845 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in which city ?
5. 1877 - American Chester Greenwood patents his invention that he designed at 15 years of age. What did he invent?
6. 1881 - Alexander II of Russia is assassinated in St.Petersburg by what means ?
7. 1900 - In France the length of the working day for women and children is limited by law to how many hours ?
8. 1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes it for what ?
9. 1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach what in schools ?
10. 1935 - What are introduced in Great Britain for the first time on this day ?
11. 1943 - Nazis liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków; Oskar Schindler with advance information, saves his workers by keeping them where ?
12. 1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of which country ?
13. 1996 - A gunman kills sixteen primary school children and their teacher in which Scottish town?
14. 2012 - 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with what near Dhaka, Bangladesh ?
15. 2013 - Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the parliamentary elections in which regional territory ?
16. 2018 - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired by President Donald Trump using what method ?