MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2005: Amid low voter turnout and allegations of irregularities, Hosni Mubarak won Egypt's first multicandidate presidential election to remain in office. [Test your knowledge of Egyptian history.]

1996: American rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, one of the leading names in 1990s gangsta rap, was shot by an unknown assailant and died six days later. [Take our hip-hop quiz.]

1979: ESPN, a cable network dedicated to sports, debuted on American television. [Sort fact from fiction in our sports quiz.]

1921: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant(then known as the Inter-City Beauty Contest) began; 16-year-old Margaret Gorman was crowned the winner the following day. [Take our pop culture quiz.]

1860: American folk painter Grandma Moses, who was internationally popular for her naïve documentation of rural life in the United States, was born. [Name that artist in our quiz.]

1876: The Younger Brothers, a group of American outlaws who were often allied with Jesse James, were captured following an unsuccessful bank robbery. [ Test your knowledge of criminality and famous outlaws.]