Misc: The national flag of _____ was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte?

Questions

In 1170 Thomas Beckett, archbishop, ---------- by 4 knights of King Henry II ?

In 1862 ---------- ball invented ?

In 1937 Mary ---------- Moore, Brooklyn, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People), born ?

In 1938 Jon---------- , Yonkers, NY, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy), born ?

In 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on ---------- (WW II) ?