On This Day (November 3rd) Multiple Choice

1. 1333 – The River Arno flooding caused massive damage in which Italian city as recorded by the chronicler Giovanni Villani ?

2. 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights which island in the Caribbean Sea ?

3. 1838 – The world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. What is it called nowadays ?

4. 1881 – The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in which country ?

5. 1911 – Which motor manufacturer officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T ?

6. 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in which city ?

7. 1943 – World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate which harbour in Germany ?

8. 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named what ?

9. 1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward which planet ?

10. 1978 – Dominica gains its independence from which nation ?

11. 1979 – Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen during a "Death to the Klan" rally in which city ?

12. 1986 – The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from which country ?

13. 1997 – The United States imposes economic sanctions against which country in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens ?

14. 2019 – McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook is fired for what reason ?

15. Today is celebrated as Mothers Day in which Asian country ?