HOT TOPIC History

Quiz

1 Bluff Hill and Hospital Hill are

features of what city?

2 Who did Muhammad Ali defeat

in the “Thrilla in Manila”?

3 What country uses the Hangul

alphabet?

4 Special Agent Seeley Booth and forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan featured in what TV series?

5 Donald Trump's team called a press conference at the Four Seasons in the last days of his presidency. What type of business was it? 1783 The British evacuated New York during the Revolutionary War.

1915 A new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, was founded by William Joseph Simmons.

1961 The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, was commissioned.

1963 The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery; his widow, Jacqueline, lighted an “eternal flame” at the gravesite.

1999 Elian Gonzalez, a 5-year-old Cuban boy, was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle.

2014 Attorneys for Michael Brown’s family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the Black 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.) President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters for racially charged violence in Ferguson, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property.

2016 Fidel Castro, who led his rebels to victorious revolution in 1959, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half-century of rule in Cuba, died at age 90.

2018 US border agents fired tear gas on hundreds ofmigrants protesting near the border with Mexico after some of them tried to get through the fencing and wire separating the two countries; US authorities temporarily shut down the border crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, where thousands were waiting to apply for asylum.