On This Day (September 2nd) Multiple Choice

1. 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings. It started at a bakery in which street ?

2. 1752 – Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, starts using what ?

3. 1806 – A massive landslide destroys which Swiss town ?

4. 1807 – The British Royal Navy bombards which city with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent the nation from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon ?

5. 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the State Fair of which state ?

6. 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first of which award of the Boy Scouts of America ?

7. 1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, which city is annexed by Nazi Germany ?

8. 1945 – World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed and accepted aboard which battleship in Tokyo Bay ?

9. 1946 – The Interim Government of which country is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister ?

10. 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to which country ?

11. 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Civil War of which African country ?

12. 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in which city ?

13. 1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew what make of airplane into Red Square in May ?

14. 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near which Nova Scotia town ?

15. 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates which island nation ?