HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 What natural phenomenon do

seismologists study?

2 The characters Doctor Zoidberg and Bender feature on what comedic cartoon series?

3 Prince Edward served in what branch of the British armed forces?

4 What ancient Greek philosopher

founded the Academy in Athens?

5 Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova set what athletic discipline's female world record in 1987, a feat which still stands today? 1782 The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris for ending the Revolutionary War; the Treaty of Paris was signed in September 1783.

1803 Spain completed the process of ceding Louisiana to France, which had sold it to the United States.

1835 Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — was born in Florida, Missouri.

1874 British statesman Sir Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace.

1900 Irish writer Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.

1936 London’s famed Crystal

Palace, constructed for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was destroyed in a fire.

1940 Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. (The marriage ended in divorce in 1960.)

1960 The last Desoto was built by Chrysler, which had decided to retire the brand after 32 years.

1981 The United States and the Soviet Union opened negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.

1987 American author James Baldwin died in Saint Paul de Vence, France, at age 63.

2010 The Obama administration announced that all 197 airlines that flew to the U.S. had begun collecting names, genders and birth dates of passengers so the government could check them against terror watch lists before they boarded flights.

2019 Amid mounting pressure from mass anti-government protests,

Iraqi Primeminister Adel AbdulMahdi submitted his resignation to parliament.