On This Day (September 1st) Multiple Choice

1. 1420 – An earthquake shakes which desert causing tsunamis thousands of miles away ?

2. 1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the 1st one built in which modern day country, is destroyed by natives ?

3. 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of where by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England ?

4. 1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in which US state ?

5. 1836 – Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at which place ?.

6. 1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Telephone Dispatch Company in which city ?

7. 1897 – The Tremont Street Subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America, in which city ?

8. 1914 – Which Russian city changes its name to Petrograd ?

9. 1914 – The last known passenger pigeon dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. What was its name ?

10. 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and which other country invade Poland ?

11. 1952 – Which novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published ?

12. 1958 – Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the conflict known as what ?

13. 1972 – American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion in which city ?

14. 1981 – A coup d'état in which African country overthrows President David Dacko ?

15. 1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of which ship ?