HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Who was named Sportswoman of the Decade at the recent Halberg Awards?

2 The warrior Geronimo was from

which Native American tribe?

3 Who played the characters John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop and Julius Benedict in Twins?

4 Vinson Massif is the highest

point of which continent?

5 Which member of the Bee Gees had the most children, a total of five?

History

1616 English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare dies in Stratford-upon-avon on what has traditionally been regarded as the 52nd anniversary of his birth in 1564.

1789 President-elect George Washington and his wife, Martha, move into the first executive mansion, the Franklin House, in New York.

1898 Spain declares war on the United States, which responds in kind two days later.

1940 About 200 people die in the Rhythm Night Club Fire in

Natchez, Mississippi.

1943 US Navy Lieutenant John F Kennedy assumes command of a motor torpedo boat in the Solomon Islands during World War II. (In August, the boat is rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, killing two crew but Kennedy and 10 others survive.)

1969 Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Senator Robert F Kennedy. (The sentence is later reduced to life imprisonment.)

2005 The recently created videosharing website Youtube uploads its first clip, Me at the Zoo, which shows Youtube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.

2016 Britain marks the 400th anniversary of the death of

William Shakespeare with parades, church services and stage performances; President Barack Obama takes a break from political talks in London to tour the Globe Theatre, a re-creation of the venue where many of the Bard’s plays were first performed.