On This Day (November 10th) Multiple Choice

1. 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of which empire ?

2. 1202 – Despite letters from the Pope forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara. Zara is now known by what name ?

3. 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at the Tun Tavern in which city ?

4. 1847 – The passenger ship "Stephen Whitney" is wrecked in thick fog off the coast of Ireland. The disaster results in the construction of which lighthouse ?

5. 1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone near which African lake ?

6. 1898 – Beginning of the insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history. In which city ?

7. 1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes which country killing an estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 ?

8. 1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in which country ?

9. 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts which childrens TV program ?

10. 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked. Where did it eventually land ?

11. 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior. Which singer songwriter wrote a song about the event ?

12. 1983 – Bill Gates introduces which version of Windows ?

13. 2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in which city ?

14. 2008 – NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost over five months after landing on which planet?

15. 2009 – Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in which body of water ?