HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 What kind of creature is Sam in

The Muppets?

2 People under what age cannot

work in a factory in New Zealand?

3 What does white smoke coming from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel signal?

4 What type of animal is a

barramundi?

5 Who wrote the Broadway

standard Send in the Clowns?

History

1904 The US and Panama proclaim a treaty under which America agrees to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus.

1942 How Green Was My Valley won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1941, beating out nine other films, including The Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane.

1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has developed its own atomic bomb.

1966 South Korean troops sent to fight in the Vietnam War massacre at least 380 civilians in Go Dai hamlet.

1993 A truck bomb built by Islamic extremists explodes in the parking garage of the North Tower of New York’s World Trade Centre, killing six and injuring more than 1000.

1994 A jury in San Antonio acquits 11 followers of David Koresh of murder, rejecting claims they ambushed federal agents; five are convicted of voluntary manslaughter.

1998 A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejects an $US11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blame Oprah Winfrey’s talkshow for a price fall after a segment on food safety that includes a discussion about mad cow disease.

2011 Space shuttle Discovery arrives at the International Space Station, making its final visit before being parked at a museum.

2017 Moonlight, an LGBT comingof-age drama, wins three Oscars, including best picture of 2016 (in a startling gaffe, the musical La La Land is mistakenly announced as the best picture winner before the error is corrected).

2020 Maria Sharapova retired from professional tennis at the age of 32, after a career that included five Grand Slam titles.