On This Day (May 20th) Multiple Choice

1. 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, looking for a route to the west. What is the name of his ship ?

2. 1570 – Abraham Ortelius issues "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern what ?

3. 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates what in the French colonies ?

4. 1840 – York Minster, in the UK, is badly damaged by what ?

5. 1861 – American Civil War: Which state proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state ?

6. 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with what feature ?

7. 1883 – Which volcano begins to erupt; it explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people ?

8. 1902 – Cuba gains independence from which nation ?

9. 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing where the next day ?

10. 1940 – The first prisoners arrive at a new German concentration camp called what ?

11. 1956 – The first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean under the codename of Operation what ?

12. 1969 – Which battle of the Vietnam War ends ?

13. 1980 – A referendum calling for independance is rejected by 60% of the voters in which region ?

14. 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in which European country ?

15. 1946 – Cherilyn Sarkisian, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress, is born. By what name is she better known ?