On This Day (September 16th) Multiple Choice

1. 1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on which ship ?

2. 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. He is sometimes called what ?

3. 1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert in which city ?

4. 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun, the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily, prints its first issue in which city in New York state ?

5. 1908 – Which major motor manufacturer is founded ?

6. 1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in which road in New York City ?

7. 1943 – World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around which city ?

8. 1955 – A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to do what ?

9. 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in which city ?

10. 1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of which Samuel Barber composition ?

11. 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from which country ?

12. 1976 – Champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a reservoir in which Asian capital city ?

13. 1979 – Eight people escaped from which country to the west in a homemade hot air balloon ?

14. 1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of which political organisation ?

15. 2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in which Italian city ?