HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 Who is the eldest daughter of

Bob Geldof and Paula Yates?

2 What explorer was the first European to visit the Hawaiian Islands?

3 Rough and Rowdy Ways is the name of what legendary artist’s 2020 album?

4 Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan, and Daniel Day-lewis have each won how many Oscars, the most acting Oscars by amale?

5 What character sings The Room

Where It Happens in Hamilton? 1783 George Washington resigned as commander in chief of the Continental Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored the civil rights of about 1500 people who had been jailed for opposing the (First) World War.

1941 During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.

1948 Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo.

1954 The first successful human kidney transplant took place at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston as a surgical team removed a kidney from 23-yearold Ronald Herrick and implanted it in Herrick’s twin brother,

Richard.

1962 Cuba began releasing prisoners from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion under an agreement in which Cuba received more than $50 million worth of food and medical supplies.

1972 A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua; the disaster claimed some 5,000 lives.

1997 A federal jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, declining to find him guilty of murder. (Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)

2001 Time magazine named New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani its Person of the Year for his steadfast response to the 9/11 terrorist attack.