On This Day (May 4th) Multiple Choice

1. 1471 – Wars of the Roses: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales at which battle ?

2. 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland aboard the See Meeuw. What is New Netherland called today ?

3. 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to which King ?

4. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on which island ?

5. 1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England and spanning which river ?

6. 1904 – The United States begins construction of what ?

7. 1932 – Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion in which prison ?

8. 1949 – The entire football team of which Italian city is killed in a plane crash ?

9. 1959 – Which annual awards ceremony is held for the first time ?

10. 1972 – The "Don't Make A Wave Committee", a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to what ?

11. 1982 – Twenty sailors from which British ship are killed when it is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War ?

12. 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of which city ?

13. 1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress, is born. Which character did she mostly voice ?

14. 2012 – Adam Yauch, American rapper and director, dies. What band was he a founding member of ?

15. Today is a commemorative day observed by fans of which film franchise ?