ANSWERS

1. Juneteenth

2. Hoboken (at the Elysian Fields)

The game on 19 June 1846 was played under rules written by the New York Knickerbocker club. Other forms of baseball had been played before, so it is usually called the first officially recorded game rather than the first ever.

3. Maximilian I of Mexico. The execution was painted by Édouard Manet.

4. Washington (in Spokane)

5. Kuwait

6. The Civil Rights Act

7. Garfield, created by Jim Davis

8. Blaise Pascal

9. James VI of Scotland and James I of England

10. Wallis Simpson

11. Lou Gehrig

12. Aung San Suu Kyi

13. Salman Rushdie

14. Kathleen Turner

15. Boris Johnson

16. Great Ormond Street Hospital

17. James Gandolfini

18. William Golding, "Lord of the Flies"

19. The Metropolitan Police Act

20. Paula Abdul