On This Day (October 12th) Multiple Choice

1. 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. Where was Hatfield Chase ?

2. 1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, but where ?

3. 1773 – America's first of what type of building opens ?

4. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to do what ?

5. 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the White House. What was it known as before ?

6. 1915 – World War I: Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium. What was her occupation ?

7. 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at a children's hospital in which city ?

8. 1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of which city comes to an end ?

9. 1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev does what at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion ?

10. 1968 – Which African country becomes independent from Spain ?

11. 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from which company ?

12. 1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in a bomb in a hotel in which UK city ?

13. 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of which planet ?

14. 2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO and is immediately followed by which country ?

15. 2019 – The Hard Rock Hotel, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20 in which city ?