On This Day (October 27th) Multiple Choice

1. 1275 – Traditional founding of which European city ?

2. 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside which city ?

3. 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all persons of which religious group to leave the state or be killed ?

4. 1904 – The first underground subway line opens in which US city ?

5. 1914 – First World War: The British battleship ''HMS Audacious'' is sunk by a minefield laid by the German merchant-cruiser ''Berlin'' off the coast of which country ?

6. 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in which United States military service ?

7. 1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring what on Selective Service records ?

8. 1979 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from which country ?

9. 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a restructuring of the way in which they operate, in an event now referred to as what ?

10. 1988 – Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in which city due to listening devices in the building structure ?

11. 1991 – Which "stan" achieves independence from the Soviet Union ?

12. 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for what "reason" ?

13. 1995 – Former Prime Minister, Bettino Craxi, is convicted in absentia of corruption, in which country ?

14. 2004 – The Boston Red Sox defeat which team to win their first World Series in 86 years ?

15. 2019 – The uncrewed Boeing X-37B spacecraft returns to Earth after spending a record number of days in orbit. How many days ?