On This Day (September 19th) Multiple Choice

1. 1356 – Hundred Years War: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures King John II in a battle at which place ?

2. 1846 – Two French shepherd children experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop now known as Our Lady of La Salette in which mountain range ?

3. 1852 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the Observatory of Capodimonte. Massalia is approximately how many kilometers in diameter ?

4. 1863 – American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, in the Northwest of which state ?

5. 1868 – La Gloriosa begins in Spain. What is La Gloriosa ?

6. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for how long before surrendering ?

7. 1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Who becomes President upon Garfield's death ?

8. 1916 – World War I: Colonial forces of the Belgian Congo capture the town of Tabora. In which country was Tabora ?

9. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Hurtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the U.S. Army has ever fought. Where is Hurtgen Forest ?

10. 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by which world leader at the University of Zurich ?

11. 1970 – Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival. How much did a ticket cost ?

12. 1978 – Which island nation joins the United Nations ?

13. 1982 – Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. What were they ?

14. 1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria. He lived around which year ?

15. 2019 – A drone strike by the United States kills 30 civilian farmers in which country ?