On This Day (December 17th) Multiple Choice

1. 1538 – Which Pope excommunicates Henry VIII of England ?

2. 1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo in which modern day Mexican city ?

3. 1835 – The second Great Fire destroys 50 acres of which city's Financial District ?

4. 1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by which composer ?

5. 1892 – The first issue of which magazine is published ?

6. 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned the first King of which country ?

7. 1913 – A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual rapid transit system of which US city ?

8. 1918 – Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in which Australian city ?

9. 1933 – The first NFL Championship Game is played. The game was at Wrigley Field between the New York Giants and which other team ?

10. 1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of which element ?

11. 1941 – World War II: Japanese forces land in the North of which island ?

12. 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile from which state ?

13. 1967 – Harold Holt, disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria, Australia and is presumed drowned. Which official position did he hold ?

14. 1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of which phenomenon ?

15. 1983 – Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at which London department store ?