On This Day (November 18th) Multiple Choice

1. 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. On the same day in which year is the new St Peter's Basilica is consecrated ?

2. 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known by what name ?

3. 1760 – The rebuilt debtors' prison receives it's first prisoners at the Castellania in which city ?

4. 1865 – Which Mark Twain short story is published in the New York Saturday Press ?

5. 1903 – The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over what ?

6. 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of which country ?

7. 1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to which country ?

8. 1963 – The first of which type of telephone goes into service ?

9. 1971 – Oman declares its independence from which country ?

10. 1987 – In London, 31 people die in a fire at one of the city's busiest underground stations, but which one ?

11. 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing what punishment for drug traffickers ?

12. 1991 – Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite after how many days ?

13. 1991 – After an 87-day siege, which Croatian city capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army ?

14. 2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in which country ?

15. 2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to which planet ?