On This Day (October 18th) Multiple Choice

1. 1356 – The most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys which town ?

2. 1540 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy the fortified town of Mabila. Mabila is in which present-day US state ?

3. 1648 – In Boston, members of which occupation form the first American labor organization ?

4. 1851 – Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is first published in London, but titled by what name ?

5. 1867 – United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for how much ?

6. 1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. What was it's aim ?

7. 1944 – World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of which country from Nazi Germany ?

8. 1954 – Texas Instruments announces the first what ?

9. 1963 – Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat to be what ?

10. 1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet. But which one ?

11. 1991 – The Supreme Council of which country adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union ?

12. 2003 – Following a dispute about gas reserves President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave which country ?

13. 2011 – Spaceport America officially opens in which state as the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport ?

14. 2015 –Tens of thousands of junior doctors rally to protest against contract changes to their working week, in which city ?

15. 2019 – Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-women spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace what ?