HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Epinephrine is another name for

what hormone?

2 What character did John Krasinski play in the US version of The Office?

3 The current pope hails from

which continent?

4 Which Stanley Kubrick film ends with a scene of American soldiers singing the Mickey Mouse Club Song?

5 Dhaka is the capital city of what

country?

History

1452 Artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci is born in or near the Tuscan town of Vinci.

1850 The city of San Francisco is incorporated.

1865 US President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.

1912 The British luxury liner RMS Titanic founders in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland more than 21⁄2 hours after hitting an iceberg; 1514 people die, while fewer than half as many survive.

1945 During World War II, British and Canadian troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp Bergenbelsen.

1989 96 people die in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.

1989 Students in Beijing launch a series of pro-democracy protests; the demonstrations culminate in a government crackdown at Tiananmen Square.

1990 Legendary film star Greta Garbo dies in New York at age 84.

1998 Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge, dies at age 72, evading prosecution for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians.

2013 Two bombs made from pressure cookers explode at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260.

2019 Fire sweeps across the top of the Notre Dame Cathedral as the soaring Paris landmark undergoes renovations.

Birthdays

● Author and politician Jeffrey Archer is 81

Rock singerguitarist Dave Edmunds is 78.

Actorscreenwriter Emma Thompson is 62

Singer Samantha Fox is 55

Rock musician Ed O’brien (Radiohead) is 53

● Rock musician Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) is 41

● Actor-writer Seth Rogen is 39

● Actor Emma Watson is 31

● Actor Maisie Williams is 24

Quiz Answers

1. Adrenaline 2. Jim 3. South America 4. Full Metal Jacket 5. Bangladesh

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