On This Day (September 8th) Multiple Choice

1. 1504 – Which of Michelangelo's creations is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence ?

2. 1727 – A barn fire during a puppet show in which village in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people ?

3. 1775 – The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests occurs in which European country ?

4. 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of which country ?

5. 1860 – The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on which of the Great Lakes ?

6. 1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, in which state ?

7. 1888 – In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found in which area of the city ?

8. 1916 – In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in which city, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles ?

9. 1921 – Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her what ?

10. 1926 – Which country is admitted to the League of Nations ?

11. 1946 – A referendum abolishes what in Bulgaria ?

12. 1966 – Which American science fiction television series premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap" ?

13. 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to what ?

14. 1991 – Which European nation becomes independent ?

15. 2004 – NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open on which planet ?