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Quiz

1 In which country of the UK would you find the town of Haverfordwest?

2 How many members does the

K-pop group BTS feature?

3 In what 1952 play is the character Giles Corey pressed to death, with his last words being “More weight”?

4 Which country had its first male Grand Slam finalist in 45 years at Wimbledon in 2021?

5 What English city has recently been stripped of its status as a Unesco World Heritage Site?

History

1608 John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1813 An American naval force commanded by Oliver H Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstitch sewing machine.

1914 An eruption on Whakaari White Island in the Bay of Plenty kills 10 sulphur miners when a crater wall collapses.

1960 Hurricane Donna, a dangerous Category 4 storm eventually blamed for 364 deaths, strikes the Florida Keys.

1962 The US Supreme Court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, an Africanamerican student.

1963 20 African-american students enter Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Governor George C Wallace.

1998 US President Bill Clinton meets members of his Cabinet to apologise, ask forgiveness and promise to improve as a person in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

2005 Cadaver dogs and boatloads of forensic workers fan out across New Orleans to collect the corpses left behind by Hurricane Katrina; cleanup crews tow away abandoned cars and even begin readying a hotel for reopening.

2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at nearly 200,000 hectares.