On This Day (December 29th) Multiple Choice

1. 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside which cathedral by followers of King Henry II ?

2. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture which city ?.

3. 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands east of the Mississippi River belonging to which native American tribe to the United States ?

4. 1851 – The first American YMCA opens in which city ?

5. 1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead in which US state ?

6. 1916 – Which novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house ?

7. 1940 – World War II: The Luftwaffe fire-bombs which English city killing almost 200 civilians ?

8. 1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in which US national park ?

9. 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. He was the president of which South American country ?

10. 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a civil war that had lasted for how long ?

11. 1997 – Hong Kong begins a cull of which animal in an effort to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain ?

12. 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. Where was the language spoken ?

13. 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, that was negotiated in which year ?

14. 2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway in Moscow. The M3 highway runs to the border with which country ?

15. 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at a railway station in which Russian city kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others ?