On This Day (November 30th) Multiple Choice

1. 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish what ?

2. 1803 – The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against which disease in Spanish America and the Philippines ?

3. 1853 – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in which modern day country ?

4. 1868 – A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the Kungsträdgården, a park in which Swedish city ?

5. 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and which other nation ?

6. 1886 – Which Parisian cabaret music hall stages its first revue ?

7. 1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. By what name is it better known ?

8. 1954 – The Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in which city in Alabama ?

9. 1966 – Which Caribbean nation becomes independent from the United Kingdom ?

10. 1979 – Which of Pink Floyd's albums is released on this day ?

11. 1994 – The cruise ship MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of which country ?

12. 1999 – Which two oil companies sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating the world's largest company ?

13. 2001 – Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders in the USA. By what nickname was he notoriously known ?

14. 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of where ?

15. 2018 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake with its epicenter only 15 miles from which US city causes significant property damage but no deaths ?