On This Day (September 17th) Multiple Choice

1. 1630 – Which US city is founded ?

2. 1683 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules". What did he mean by animalcules ?

3. 1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and who ?

4. 1809 – Peace between which country and Russia in the Finnish War ?

5. 1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of where" ?

6. 1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for which time ?

7. 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near which French town ?

8. 1925 – Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up what ?

9. 1935 – The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations for what reason ?

10. 1940 – World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones which military operation ?

11. 1961 – The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in which city ?

12. 1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and which other country ?

13. 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black what ?

14. 2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least how many years ?

15. 2013 – Which computer game earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release ?