In 1996, Marxist rebels took hostages at a party in Lima honoring the birthday of which Japanese emperor?

At a 1944 auction, a handwritten copy of which scientist's paper on special relativity brought a $6.5 million pledge in… At a 1947 meeting of the Optical Society of America, which inventor took an instant photo of himself? In 1984, which longtime UPI White House reporter, sharing a name with a "doubting" apostle, became the first woman to w… In 1989, "Shot Red Marilyn" by which Pop artist sold at auction for about $4 million? At a congress in which city in 1754 did Benjamin Franklin propose a plan to unite the colonies? At a February 1956 Communist Party congress, Nikita Khrushchev denounced which former Soviet leader as a tyrant? Mount Narodnaya, at about 6,200 feet, is the tallest peak in which Russian mountain range? At a June 1995 auction, the white suit John Travolta wore in which film sold for $145,500?