On This Day (March 30th) Multiple Choice

1. 1296 – During armed conflict between Scotland and England, Edward I sacks which town ?

2. 1841 – What institution is founded in Athens, Greece ?

3. 1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, the equivalent of how much per acre ?

4. 1893 - Thomas F Bayard becomes the first what in the United Kingdom ?

5. 1912 – Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a protectorate of which country ?

6. 1945 – Eric Clapton, English guitarist and singer-songwriter is born in which English village ?

7. 1949 – A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins which organisation ?

8. 1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and is granted political asylum in which country ?

9. 1961 - The Single Convention on what is signed in New York City ?

10. 1964 - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from the senate race in which US state ?

11. 1979 - Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army car bomb as he exits which London building ?

12. 1984 - New York police detective Robert Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of a $1 lottery ticket, they win how much on the following day ?

13. 1987 - Which of Vincent van Gogh's paintings sells for a record £22.5 million ?

14. 1997 - Which TV channel begins broadcasting in the UK for the first time ?

15. 2013 - North Korea declares it is at a state of war with who ?

16. 2023 - Donald Trump becomes the first former US President to be what?