On This Day (October 6th) Multiple Choice

1. 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: Forces of the Roman Republic subdue which kingdom ?

2. 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of which of her pregnancies ?

3. 1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of which people to America ?

4. 1762 – Seven Years' War: The British capture which city from Spain and occupy it ?

5. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on which river ?

6. 1854 – In England the Great Fire of Newcastle and which other town leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured ?

7. 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in which state ?

8. 1903 – The High Court of which country sits for the first time ?

9. 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of which nation for the first of seven times ?

10. 1943 – World War II: Thirteen civilians are burnt alive by a Nazi paramilitary group on which Greek island ?

11. 1973 – Which two countries launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War ?

12. 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit which famous landmark ?

13. 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm estate in which district of London ?

14. 1987 – Which Pacific nation becomes a republic ?

15. 1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun is discovered in which constellation ?