On This Day (June 20th) Multiple Choice

1. 1631 – The Sack of Baltimore: The Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by pirates of which nationality ?

2. 1685 – James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England in which town ?

3. 1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of which country, is assassinated ?

4. 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in which Canadian city ?

5. 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs on the explorer ship "Zarya", from which Russian port never to return ?

6. 1942 – The Holocaust: Four prisoners dressed as SS guards, steal an SS staff car and escape from which concentration camp ?

7. 1945 – The U.S. Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under which operation ?

8. 1948 – The Deutsche Mark is introduced in Western Allied-occupied Germany. The Communists respond by doing what four days later ?

9. 1960 – The Mali Federation gains independence from France. It later splits into Mali and which other country ?

10. 1963 – The Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish a permanent link between Washington and Moscow. It becomes known as what ?

11. 1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in which city, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre ?

12. 1975 – Which film is released in the US, starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters" ?

13. 2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in which US city ?

14. 1940 – John Mahoney, English actor, best known for playing Martin Crane in "Frasier" is born in which British seaside town ?

15. Today is a national food day in the US. What is it called ?