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Quiz

1

In the phonetic alphabet what word is used to denote the letter K?

2 Which potter famous for his ‘jasperware' opened his first pottery business in Burslem in 1759

3 The world’s first jet airliner made its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg in 1952. What model was it?

4 Which city in South America was founded by the Portugese in March 1565?

5 The world's first national park was established in 1862 in which country?

History

1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the US.

1967 War erupted in the Middle East as Israel, anticipating a possible attack by its Arab neighbors, launched a series of pre-emptive airfield strikes that destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian air force; Syria, Jordan and Iraq immediately entered the conflict.

1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; assassin Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was arrested at the scene.

1981 The Centers for Disease Control reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognised cases of what later became known as AIDS.

2004 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th US president, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

2018 Fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment in New York in what the medical examiner determined was a suicide by hanging; she was 55.

Birthdays

● Actor Mark Wahlberg is 49

● Actress Sophie Lowe is 30

Quiz Answers

1 Kilo 2 Josiah Wedgewood 3 de Havilland Comet 4 Rio de Janeiro 5 The USA (Yellowstone)

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