On This Day (February 26th) Multiple Choice

1. 1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of which island ?

2. 1616 - The Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in what ?

3. 1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs an Act, establishing a single national what ?

4. 1881 - P&O's SS Ceylon sails from Liverpool to begins the world's first pleasure cruise to do what ?

5. 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at which London Theatre ?

6. 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing which US National Park.?

7. 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry, UK, which leads directly to the development of what ?

8. 1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer was born in Essex on this day, apart from her music, how was her act memorable ?

9. 1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own what ?

10. 1975 - What type of transplant operation is televised for the first time ?

11. 1980 – Egypt and which other country establish full diplomatic relations ?

12. 1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses how much ?

13. 1997 – David Doyle, American actor dies of a heart attack at 67. For which role is he most famous ?

14. 2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in which Asian city for the first time ?

15. 2013 – A hot air balloon crashes, killing 19 people, near which African city ?

16. 2021 - 279 female students are kidnapped by bandits in which African country?