On This Day (May 13th) Multiple Choice

1. 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in which city after being convicted of treason ?

2. 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become which U.S. state ?

3. 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England for Australia, with eleven ships full of what ?

4. 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from who ?

5. 1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to which other city ?

6. 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his what ?

7. 1943 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in which country ?

8. 1950 – The very first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at which circuit ?

9. 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first person to circumnavigate the world by what means of transport ?

10. 1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the first Muslim President of which country ?

11. 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in what place ?

12. 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to achieve which feat ?

13. 2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on which road ?

14. 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer, is born. What was his nickname ?

15. 1950 – Stevland Hardaway Judkins, American singer-songwriter, and pianist, is also born on this day. By what name is he better known ?