HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 John Flamsteed and Edmond Halley were the first two holders of which scientific post?

2 How many sheets of paper make a

Ream? a) 100 b) 500 c) 1000

3 Which 'E' is the area where a large

river meets tidal waters?

4 Elizabeth Bennet is a character

created by which author?

5 Which South Asian country was

known as Ceylon until 1972?

History

1885 French scientist Louis Pasteur tested an anti-rabies vaccine on 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been bitten by an infected dog; the boy did not develop rabies.

1942 Anne Frank, her parents and sister entered a “secret annex” in an Amsterdam building where they were later joined by four other people; they hid from Nazi occupiers for two years before being discovered and arrested.

1944 An estimated 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Connecticut.

1945 President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order establishing the Medal of Freedom. 1957 Althea Gibson became the first Black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title as she defeated fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

1988 167 North Sea oil workers were killed when explosions and fires destroyed a drilling platform. Medical waste and other debris began washing up on New York Cityarea seashores, forcing the closing of several popular beaches.

1997 The rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting the soil and rocks of the red planet.