On This Day (May 19th) Multiple Choice

1. 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Russian princess, Anne of where ?

2. 1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in which present-day country ?

3. 1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of which person ?

4. 1655 – The Invasion of which island begins during the Anglo-Spanish War ?

5. 1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed a scale for measuring what ?

6. 1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting manufacturers of what product in the United States ?

7. 1911 – The world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior in which country ?

8. 1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on what ?

9. 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to ships and commerce from which country ?

10. 1961 – Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing where ?

11. 1962 – A birthday salute to John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is what ?

12. 1991 – Which country votes for independence in a referendum ?

13. 2012 – Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in which Italian city ?

14. 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of how many ?

15. 1945 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter and guitarist, is born. He is known for his long association with which band ?