HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 What singer is the star of the new

documentary All I Know So Far?

2 What pair of German brothers collected such stories as Hansel & Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White?

3 What PC game was created by Swedish programmer Markus Persson in 2009?

4 The Bardigiano, Haflinger, and Lusitano are all breeds of what animal?

5 Credited with naming the Impressionist movement, the artwork Impression, Sunrise is by what artist?

History

1775 The Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, is created.

1777 The Second Continental Congress approves the design of the original American flag.

1846 A group of US settlers in Sonoma proclaims the Republic of California.

1911 The British ocean liner RMS Olympic sets out on its maiden voyage for New York, arriving one week later. (The ship’s captain was Edward John Smith, who went on to command the ill-fated RMS Titanic the following year.)

1922 Warren G. Harding becomes the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcasts his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort Mchenry.

1940 German troops enter Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis begin transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz v concentration camp in Germanoccupied Poland.

1954 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.

1972 The Environmental Protection Agency orders a ban on domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year’s end.

1982 Argentine forces surrender to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands.

2016 President Barack Obama angrily denounces Donald Trump’s anti-muslim rhetoric in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security; Trump responds by suggesting Obama seems angrier at him than at the gunman.