On This Day (September 9th) Multiple Choice

1. 1087 – William Rufus becomes King of England, taking the title William II, he reigned until which year ?

2. 1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in which Scottish town ?

3. 1845 – Possible start of the Great Potato Famine in which country ?

4. 1850 – Which state is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state ?

5. 1892 – The third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. What is it called ?

6. 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. By what nickname was it also known ?

7. 1924 – The Hanapepe massacre occurs on which Hawaiian island ?

8. 1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on which state ?

9. 1943 – World War II: The Allies land near Salerno and which other Italian city ?

10. 1956 – Who appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time ?

11. 1965 – Which hurricane makes its second landfall near New Orleans and becomes the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage ?

12. 1972 – In the Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration team discovers a link between the Mammoth and which other cave system ?

13. 1991 – Which "stan" declares independence from the Soviet Union ?

14. 2009 – The first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated in which city ?

15. 2016 – The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it what ?