On This Day (May 18th) Multiple Choice

1. 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of what to the citizens in Constantinople ?

2. 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch. In which two modern day countries was Antioch ?

3. 1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now where ?

4. 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making what activity illegal ?

5. 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown, Canada, after leaving the United States. By what name is Parrtown known today ?

6. 1896 – A mass panic during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people on Khodynka Field in which city ?

7. 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to achieve what feat ?

8. 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in which Middle Eastern city ?

9. 1974 – India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so, in a project named what ?

10. 1980 – Which volcano erupts killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage ?

11. 1990 – A modified train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph) in which country ?

12. 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making which country secular ?

13. 2009 – The LTTE (Tamil Tigers) are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending how many years of fighting between the two sides ?

14. 1949 – Rick Wakeman, English keyboardist and songwriter, is born. With which "Prog Rock" band is he most known ?

15. Today is recognised as what day internationally ?