On This Day (May 14th) Multiple Choice

1. 1264 – Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign a settlement, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England, at which battle ?

2. 1509 – Battle of Agnadello takes place in Northern Italy, forces from which country defeat the Republic of Venice ?

3. 1643 – Following the death of his father,Louis XIII, Louis XIV becomes King of France at what age ?

4. 1800 – The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of moving the U.S. Government to Washington, D.C. from which city begins the following day ?

5. 1870 – The first game of which sport in New Zealand is played in Nelson ?

6. 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives aboard the "Leonidas" at which island ?

7. 1925 – Which of Virginia Woolf's novels is published ?

8. 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at what age ?

9. 1940 – World War II: Which city is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire being in place ?

10. 1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be what ?

11. 1973 – The United States' first space station, is launched. What was it called ?

12. 1977 – A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to which International Airport ?

13. 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on which road near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group

14. 1969 – Danny Wood, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and choreographer is born today. He is a member of which boy band ?

15. 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor dies in Los Angeles. Amongst other items he was buried with a packet of which brand of cigarettes ?