On This Day (September 23rd) Multiple Choice

1. 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden, in which a French force defeats the English, is the first naval battle that which weaponry is used ?

2. 1459 – The Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses. In which English county is Blore Heath ?

3. 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a cargo of over 100,000 pounds of which commodity, is lost at sea off Land's End.

4. 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to which city after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States ?

5. 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in which city ?

6. 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of which planet ?

7. 1889 – Which Japanese company is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda ?

8. 1905 – Sweden and which nation sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries ?

9. 1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean. He took off from which French city ?

10. 1932 – The unification of which Asian country is completed ?

11. 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in which city ?

12. 1983 – Which island country joins the United Nations ?

13. 2002 – The first public version of which web browser is released ?

14. 2008 – Matti Saari kills ten people before committing suicide in which European country ?

15. 2019 – Which British travel company declares bankruptcy, leaving employees without jobs and 600,000 customers stranded abroad ?