On This Day (May 16th) Multiple Choice

1. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to where ?

2. 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from which state ?

3. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland on the first transatlantic flight, heading for where ?

4. 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes which historic person ?.

5. 1951 – The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now JFK) in New York City and Heathrow in London, is operated by which airline ?

6. 1959 – The Triton Fountain in which European Capital city is turned on for the first time ?

7. 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first what, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California ?

8. 1969 – Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on which heavenly body ?

9. 1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of which country ?

10. 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States states that the addictive properties of what are similar to those of heroin and cocaine ?

11. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is the first British monarch to address which organisation ?

12. 2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in terrorist attacks in which city ?

13. 2005 – Kuwait permits what in a 35–23 National Assembly vote ?

14. 1953 – Which actor that portrayed James Bond is born on this day ?

15. Today is marked in the US as National what day?