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Quiz

1 By what group name are sisters Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale known in Greek mythology?

2 Macaulay Culkin has recently had

a child with what actress?

3 What author is behind the Captain Underpants series as well as the graphic novel Dog Man?

4 Prince William famously played with what toy at Government House in Auckland, when he visited in 1983?

5 Which Stockholm-born actress starred in the 1930s films Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Anna Karenina?

History

1812 British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London.

1943 During World War II, US forces land on the Aleutian island of Attu, which is held by the Japanese; the Americans take the island 19 days later.

1946 The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrive at Le Havre, France.

1950 In the Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die.

1953 A tornado devastates Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.

1960 Israeli agents capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1981 Legendary reggae artist

Bob Marley dies in a Miami hospital at age 36.

1985 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history.

1997 IBM’S ‘Deep Blue’ computer demolishes an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov, winning the six-game chess rematch between man and machine in New York.

1998 India sets off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years.

1998 A French mint produces the first coins of Europe’s single currency, the euro.

2009 An American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counselling centre at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving five other US soldiers dead and three wounded

2010 Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, becomes Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years after Gordon Brown steps down and ends 13 years of Labour government.

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