On This Day (September 7th) Multiple Choice

1. 878 – Louis II is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII. By what name was Louis II otherwise known ?

2. 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate who ?

3. 1776 – According to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in a vessel named what ?

4. 1822 – Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in which city ?

5. 1876 – Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob a bank but are driven off by armed citizens in which city ?

6. 1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage between which two cities ?

7. 1936 – The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at a zoo in which Australian city ?

8. 1942 – World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay. Milne Bay is in which modern day country ?

9. 1965 – Vietnam War: United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate an Operation known as what on the Batangan Peninsula ?

10. 1978 – While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police by means of a ricin pellet fired from what ?

11. 1979 – Which vehicle manufacturer asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy ?

12. 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of which city ?

13. 1996 – Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in which city ?

14. 2005 – Which country holds its first-ever multi-party presidential election ?

15. 2012 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with which country by closing its embassy and ordering the expulsion of diplomats from Ottawa ?