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Quiz

1 Mount Vesuvius overlooks what

Italian city?

2 Lily Allen married what Stranger Things cast member in a Vegas wedding recently?

3 The Lightning are an NHL

franchise based in what city?

4 What was the name of Russell Crowe's character in the 2000 film Gladiator?

5 Who is the youngest daughter of King Lear in the Shakespeare play of the same name?

History

63 B.C. Caesar Augustus, the first Roman emperor, was born.

1846 Neptune was identified as a planet by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

1932 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded.

1939 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, died in London at age 83.

1949 President Harry S. Truman announced there was evidence the Soviet Union had recently conducted a nuclear test explosion. (The test had been carried out on Aug. 29, 1949.)

1955 A jury in Sumner, Mississippi, acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, of murdering Black teenager Emmett Till. (The two men later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.)

1957 Nine Black students who’d entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

1999 The Mars Climate Orbiter apparently burned up as it attempted to go into orbit around the Red Planet.

2001 President George W. Bush returned the American flag to full staff at Camp David, symbolically ending a period of national mourning following the 9/11 attacks.

2015 Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned, days after admitting that the world’s topselling carmaker had rigged diesel emissions to pass U.S. tests during his tenure; Winterkorn denied any personal wrongdoing.

2019 Hundreds of thousands of travellers were left stranded across the world after the British tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed, immediately halting almost all of its flights and hotel services and laying off employees; the 178-year-old company had helped create the package tour industry.

Birthdays

● Singer Julio Iglesias is 77

● Rock star Bruce Springsteen is 71

● Actor Jason Alexander is 61

Quiz Answers

1. Naples 2. David Harbour 3. Tampa 4. Maximus 5. Cordelia. Yesterday’s answers: 1.Bingo 2. Rum 3. Yeltsin 4 Frankie Valli 5. Inland taipan. Questions set by Believe it or Not

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