On This Day (October 25th) Multiple Choice

1. 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, they are now the patron saints of which professions ?

2. 1147 – Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer which city ?

3. 1760 – King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of which monarch ?

4. 1854 – Which battle, memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade, takes place during the Crimean War ?

5. 1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain is born. He was known by what nickname ?

6. 1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies in which English prison ?

7. 1927 – The Italian luxury liner "SS Principessa Mafalda" sinks off the coast of which country ?

8. 1944 – Second World War: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by what ?

9. 1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade which country, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop is executed in a coup d'état ?

10. 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor dies. He is best known for which genre of film ?

11. 1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of which country ?

12. 2010 – More than 700 species of ancient insects are discovered preserved in amber in an ancient rainforest in which country ?

13. 2015 – More than 200 black bears are killed in a single day in which U.S. state after officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years ?

14. 2019 – Hundreds of tourists flock to which natural landmark to climb it for the last time before a ban on climbing goes into effect ?

15. Today is commemorated globally as what ?