On This Day (September 5th) Multiple Choice

1. 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral, are destroyed, how many people are known to have died ?

2. 1698 – In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on what ?

3. 1798 – Conscription is made mandatory in which country by the Jourdan law ?

4. 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from where ?

5. 1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of which republic ?

6. 1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in which city ?

7. 1915 – The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins in which country ?

8. 1932 – The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and which other country ?

9. 1941 – Whole territory of which country is occupied by Nazi Germany ?

10. 1943 – World War II: The 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Lae Nadzab Airport in which country ?

11. 1960 – Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of which African country ?

12. 1960 – Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome, at which weight ?

13. 1970 – Jochen Rindt becomes the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, after being killed in practice for which Grand Prix ?

14. 1980 – Which road tunnel opens in Switzerland ?

15. 1984 – Which state becomes the last in Australia to abolish capital punishment ?