On This Day (September 12th) Multiple Choice

1. 1634 – A gunpowder factory explodes in which Mediterranean city ?

2. 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to which city in the War of 1812 ?

3. 1848 – A new constitution marks the establishment of which country as a federal state ?

4. 1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. She was carrying around 15 tons of what commodity ?

5. 1915 – French soldiers rescue over 4,000 genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh mountain. The survivors were of what nationality ?

6. 1940 – What are discovered in Lascaux, France ?

7. 1942 – World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of which land mass ?

8. 1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, in which state ?

9. 1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in which city ?

10. 1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in colour. It was shown on which US network ?

11. 1962 – President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University in which city ?

12. 1980 – A military coup takes place in which country ?

13. 1983 – A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed by Los Macheteros, an independance faction from where ?

14. 1994 – Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 in which place ?

15. 1913 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper is born. He famously won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in which city ?