On This Day (June 10th) Multiple Choice

1. 1596 – Willem Barentsz and Jacob van Heemskerk discover which island ?

2. 1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the which other nation ?

3. 1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public what ?

4. 1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on which river ?

5. 1838 – Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight of which indigenous people are murdered ?

6. 1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in which city ?

7. 1935 – Dr. Robert Smith founds which organisation in Akron, Ohio, USA ?

8. 1940 – World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and which other country ?

9. 1947 – Which company produces its first automobile ?

10. 1963 – The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on what, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy ?

11. 1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in which state of the US ?

12. 1990 – British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at which airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit ?

13. 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until which year ?

14. 2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes which country's first female saint, Saint Rafqa ?

15. 2002 – John Gotti, American mobster, dies. What did the media call him ?