On This Day (July 16th) Multiple Choice

1. 997 – Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in which country ?

2. 1251 – Celebrated by the Carmelite Order - but doubted by modern historians - as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of who ?

3. 1661 – The first banknotes in Europe are issued by a bank in which country ?

4. 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission. Over the following decades, it evolves into which city ?

5. 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in which country ?

6. 1935 – The world's first example of which device is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ?

7. 1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits safely for how many consecutive games, a streak that still stands as an MLB record ?

8. 1945 – World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves which port with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island ?

9. 1948 – The "Miss Macao" passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, is the first commercial aircraft to be subject to what event ?

10. 1965 – Which road tunnel in the European Alps opens on this day ?

11. 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from which launch pad ?

12. 1983 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off which UK island group causing 20 fatalities ?

13. 2013 – Around 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized in eastern India after eating what ?

14. 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in which US city ?.

15. 1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter is born. What was the name of his band ?