On This Day (November 8th) Multiple Choice

1. 1291 – The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to which island ?

2. 1602 – The Bodleian Library at which University is opened to the public ?

3. 1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours, near which European city ?

4. 1889 – Which state is admitted as the 41st U.S. state ?

5. 1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray whilst experimenting with what ?

6. 1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in which city ?

7. 1946 – Roy Wood, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer is born. He was a co-founder of which band ?

8. 1957 – Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and and which other city ?

9. 1957 – The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over which island in the Pacific ?

10. 1965 – The Murder Act 1965 is passed, abolishing the death penalty in the UK, except in certain cases. In what year was the death penalty completely abolished ?

11. 1973 – Which body part of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million ?

12. 1987 – A Provisional IRA bomb explodes during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces in which Northern Irish town ?

13. 2004 – Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold in which city ?

14. 2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of which country ?

15. The USA celebrates which drink on this day ?