HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 What term is used to describe when a player uses all their letters in one round in a game of Scrabble?

2 A brand of what type of alcohol is named after the Welsh pirate Captain Morgan?

3 Who was the first democratically

elected president of Russia?

4 Who sang the title track of the

1978 film Grease?

5 What Australian snake boasts by far the most toxic venom of any species? 1761 Britain’s King George III and his wife, Charlotte, were crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1776 During the Revolutionarywar, Capt. Nathan Hale, 21, was hanged as a spy by the British in New York.

1862 President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863.

1949 The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.

1961 The Interstate Commerce Commission issued rules prohibiting racial discrimination on interstate buses.

1964 The musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” starring Zero Mostel, opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3242 performances. The secret agent series “The Man from U.N.C.L. E.,” starring Robert Vaughn and David Mccallum, premiered on NBCTV.

1975 Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed.

1980 The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.

1989 The Irish Republican Army bombed the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, Kent, England, killing 11 band members. Songwriter Irving Berlin died in New York City at age 101.

2014 The United States and five Arab nations launched airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, sending waves of planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles against an array of targets.

2015 Volkswagen AG acknowledged putting emissionscheating software inmillions of vehicles worldwide.

2019 “Game of Thrones” won the best drama series Emmy Award for its final season, tying its record of 12 years in a single year for the third time