On This Day (March 6th) Multiple Choice

1. 1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over which King who loses control of Normandy ?

2. 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan is known to arrive at which island ?

3. 1646 - Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America from the General Court of Massachusetts for what invention ?

4. 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found what ?

5. 1834 – York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as which modern day city ?

6. 1836 - After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, how many Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are killed ?

7. 1899 – The Bayer company registers which product as a trademark ?

8. 1921 - Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear what ?

9. 1945 – World War II: Which German city is captured by American troops ?

10. 1957 – Which nation becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the UK ?

11. 1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the US Embassy and asks for political asylum in which city ?

12. 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193 after leaving which port ?

13. 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in which British Overseas Territory ?

14. 1992 - One of the earliest computer viruses begins to affect computers. It is named after which artist?

15. 1997 - Which of Picasso's paintings is stolen from a London gallery, and then recovered a week later ?

16. 2018 - World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia, thrown from German ship Paula how many years previously ?