On This Day (March 2nd) Multiple Choice

1. 1127 – Charles the Good is assassinated, He was known as the Count of where?

2. 1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of which Middle Age region ?

3. 1657 – Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; how long did it last?

4. 1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and what other denomination of banknote ?

5. 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean near to which Royal residence ?

6. 1903 – The Martha Washington Hotel opens, the first hotel exclusively for women, in which city ?

7. 1917 – The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants which people United States citizenship?

8. 1933 – Which well known movie opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall ?

9. 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes what name ?

10. 1941 – World War II: German military units enter which country for the first time after it joins the Axis Pact ?

11. 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight. What name was the plane given?

12. 1955 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of which of his relations ?

13. 1969 – The first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted from which city ?

14. 1970 – Which former nation declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown ?

15. 1978 - Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American person to go into space. What was his nationality?

16. 1983 - What is released for sale in the US and other markets after being available only in Japan?