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1. 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is exhibited to the public for the first time. It was painted by which artist ?
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael
Donatello
2. 1604 – Which of William Shakespeare's plays is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London ?
The Tempest
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. 1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte invades which country during the War of the Third Coalition ?
Russia
Poland
Germany
Austria
4. 1884 – The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in which Irish town ?
Letterkenny, County Donegal
Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan
Thurles, County Tipperary
Blackwater, County Wexford
5. 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in which magazine for the first time ?
Vogue
National Geographic
Playboy
Time
6. 1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the coast of which country ?
Chile
Morocco
India
Norway
7. 1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of which country's Lutheran community ?
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Kyrgyzstan
8. 1951 – Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to what "experimental training" in Nevada ?
Chemical weapons
Atomic explosions
Infectious diseases
Dehydration experiments
9. 1954 – The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of which country's War of Independence ?
Tunisia
Cameroon
Suriname
Algeria
10. 1955 – Which war begins on this day ?
Korean War
Cameroonian Independence War
Vietnam War
North Yemen Civil War
11. 1968 – The Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system is officially introduced, originating with ratings identified with which letters ?
U, A, AA, and X
G, M, R, and X
U, 12, 18, and XXX
G, A, and X
12. 1979 – Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara in which country ?
Bolivia
Chile
Ecuador
Panama
13. 1979 – Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico. Which state ?
Durango
Baja California Sur
Jalisco
Colima
14. 1982 – Which company becomes the first Asian automobile manufacturer to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Ohio ?
Kia
Toyota
Honda
Nissan
15. 2012 – A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in which Asian capital, killing 26 people and injuring 135 ?