On This Day (October 8th) Multiple Choice

1. 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of where ?

2. 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England after becoming the second wife of which king ?

3. 1480 – The Great stand on the Ugra river puts an end to Tartar rule over which city ?

4. 1821 – Which nations Navy is established during the War of Independence ?

5. 1829 – Which locomotive wins the Rainhill Trials ?

6. 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by infiltrators from which country ?

7. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a game of which sport ?

8. 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach which body of water ?

9. 1956 – Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series. Which team was he playing for ?

10. 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in which country ?

11. 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in which field ?

12. 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of which country ?

13. 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60 mph at which venue ?

14. 2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan dies, he was the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with what disease ?

15. 2019 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of parliament in which city ?