On This Day (October 4th) Multiple Choice

1. AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese city of Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. Cnang'an is known by what name today ?

2. 1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by which Pope ?

3. 1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now which US state ?

4. 1824 – Which country adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic ?

5. 1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College opens as the first public college in which US state ?

6. 1883 – The first run of the Orient Express departs from Paris to Istanbul (then Constantinople). The last leg was by ferry from which city ?

7. 1883 – First meeting of which organisation in Glasgow, Scotland ?

8. 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting which monument ?

9. 1957 – What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth ?

10. 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed as which country ?

11. 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of over 633 miles per hour. But where ?

12. 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in which country ?

13. 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against which Leader rally outside ?

14. 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant missile from which country ?

15. 2006 – Which controversial website is launched ?