On This Day (July 2nd) Multiple Choice

1. 866 – Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint army from the Breton and which other people ?

2. 1504 – Bogdan III becomes Voivode of Moldavia. What was Bogdan known as ?

3. 1644 – Which battle of the English Civil War takes place ?

4. 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first what ?

5. 1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of what ?

6. 1839 – 53 kidnapped Africans, led by Joseph Cinqué, mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad twenty miles off the coast of which island ?

7. 1853 – The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that set off which conflict ?

8. 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on which lake ?

9. 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in which city ?

10. 1940 – The SS Arandora Star is sunk by submarine U-47 with the loss of over 800 lives in which body of water ?

11. 1962 – The first Walmart store opens for business in which city ?

12. 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial what is first implanted ?

13. 2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion kills at least 230 people in which country ?

14. 1941 – William Guest, American singer-songwriter and producer is born. He is best known for being a member of which group ?

15. Today, along with June 24th, is recognised as what ?