On This Day (December 12th) Multiple Choice

1. 884 – King Carloman II, King of West Francia, dies after an accident whilst doing what activity ?

2. 1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to which Republic ?

3. 1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on which river ?

4. 1866 – Oaks Colliery explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers near to which town ?

5. 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of which state becomes the second black U.S. congressman ?

6. 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. It was the Morse Code for which letter ?

7. 1915 – Frank Sinatra, American singer, actor, and producer is born in which city in the New York Metropolitan area ?

8. 1935 – The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by which Nazi Holocaust perpetrator ?

9. 1939 – HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of which part of the United Kingdom with the loss of 124 men ?

10. 1979 – The Tumaco earthquake shakes which two countries killing between 300–600, and generating a large tsunami ?

11. 1988 – A rail crash kills thirty-five after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom near which station ?

12. 2006 – Peter Boyle, American actor dies on this day. He is known for playing the character of Frank Barone in which TV sitcom ?

13. 2012 – Which country successfully launches its first satellite, "Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2" ?

14. 2019 – Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, catches fire while docked in which port ?

15. The World Health Organisation designates this day as what ?