HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Stromboli is a villain in what Disney

film?

2 Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky to become World Champion of what in 1972?

3 Michael Jackson released what best-selling album on November 30, 1982?

4 The five tallest skyscrapers in Europe, all completed in the past decade, are in what country?

5 The Pelicans are an NBA team

based in what city?

History

1890 The Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

1916 James Joyce’s first novel, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” was first published in book form in New York after being serialized in London.

1939 “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’hara, was released by RKO Radio Pictures.

1940 Duringworld War II, Germany dropped incendiary bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as “The Second Great Fire of London.”

1975 A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York’s Laguardia Airport, killing 11 people (it’s never been determined who was responsible).

1989 Dissident and playwright Vaclav Havel assumed the presidency of Czechoslovakia.

1992 The United States and Russia announced agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.

2006 Word reached the United States of the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (because of the time difference, it was the morning of Dec. 30 in Iraq when the hanging took place). In a statement, President George W. Bush called Saddam’s execution an important milestone on Iraq’s road to democracy.

2007 The New England Patriots ended their regular season with a remarkable 16-0 record following a 38-35 comeback victory over the New York Giants. (New England became the first NFL team since the 1972 Dolphins to win every game on the schedule.)

2017 Puerto Rico authorities said nearly half of the power customers in the U.S. territory still lacked electricity, more than three months after Hurricane Maria.