On This Day (September 15th) Multiple Choice

1. 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in Syracuse, Italy. What was he doing at the time ?

2. 1816 – HMS Whiting runs aground on the Doom Bar. The Doom Bar is at the mouth of which British river ?

3. 1830 – British MP William Huskisson becomes the first widely reported railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive known as what ?

4. 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches which island group ?

5. 1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in which US city ?

6. 1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, in which state ?

7. 1916 – World War I: What are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme ?

8. 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in which Canadian province as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy ?

9. 1945 – A hurricane strikes which part of the US, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps ?

10. 1948 – The F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at what speed ?

11. 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit which nation ?

12. 1971 – The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against what ?

13. 1975 – Which French department is divided into two ?

14. 2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in which city ?

15. 1941 – Signe Toly Anderson, American rock singer is born. She was a founding member of which band ?