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1.1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. Cuzco is in which modern day country ?
Chile
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Bolivia
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Paraguay
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Peru
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2.1760 – The secondly-built Castellania in which European capital city is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows ?
Andorra la Vella
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Vaduz
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Valletta
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Madrid
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3.1889 – Which country is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup ?
Mexico
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Brazil
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Sierra Leone
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Italy
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4.1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in which European city ?
Geneva
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Barcelona
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Manchester
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Milan
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5.1926 – The NBC radio network opens with how many stations ?
24
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39
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12
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18
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6.1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of which memorial ?
Washington Monument
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Lincoln Memorial
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FDR memorial
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Jefferson Memorial
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7.1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that which people are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps" ?
Homosexuals
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Gypsies
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African origin
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Homeless
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8.1955 – The first part of which city's Metro is opened ?
Montreal
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Shanghai
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St. Petersburg
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Barcelona
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9.1962 – Jetpunk user "toowise" is born in which town in the UK ?
Nantwich, Cheshire
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Maryport, Cumbria
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Totnes, Devon
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Caistor, Norfolk
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10.1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in which body of water ?
Gulf of Mexico
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Barents Sea
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Bay of Biscay
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Indian Ocean
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11.1971 – Which company releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004 ?
IBM
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Fujitsu
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Hewlett-Packard
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Intel
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12.1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a plane forcing it to make an emergency landing. On what route was the flight ?
New York to Dallas
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Chicago to Washington D.C.
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Los Angeles to Nashville
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Boston to Miami
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13.1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in which country ?
Netherlands
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Germany
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Sweden
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United Kingdom
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14.2006 – An English language service of which news channel launches worldwide ?
France 24
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NHK World Japan
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Al Jazeera
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Russia Today
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15.2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits which country, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest ?