On This Day (March 9th) Multiple Choice

1. 1009 – First known mention, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg, of which country ?

2. 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, cartographer and explorer is born in which Italian city ?

3. 1562 - Kissing in public is banned in Naples and is punishable to what degree ?

4. 1815 – Francis Ronalds describes the first what in the "Philosophical Magazine" ?

5. 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, how long before the California Gold Rush ?

6. 1935 - Adolf Hitler publically announces the creation of what ?

7. 1945 – World War II: Around 100,000 people are killed and over a million left homeless in the first nocturnal incendiary attack on which city ?

8. 1956 – Soviet forces, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy, suppress mass demonstrations in which former region of the USSR ?

9. 1959 – Which popular toy makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York ?

10. 1976 – Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date in which range of mountains ?

11. 1977 - Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in which city?

12. 1983 - Zimbabwean opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to which country ?

13. 1997 – Christopher George Latore Wallace, American rapper, songwriter, and actor is murdered on this day, by what name is he better known ?

14. 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after how many flights ?

15. 2012 - Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin's ex Judith Brown in which city ?

16. 2015 - Two helicopters collide killing all 10 occupants, including producers and guests from French TV survival series Dropped, in which country?