On This Day (April 25th) Multiple Choice

1. 799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, which Pope flees to the Frankish court of King Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection ?

2. 1134 – Which city was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the _____ Bishopric around 1094 ?

3. 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by what means ?

4. 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for which construction project ?

5. 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require what ?

6. 1940 – The flag of which island group is approved by the British occupation government ?

7. 1945 – Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in which city ?

8. 1954 – Bell Telephone Laboratories publicly demonstrates the first practical what ?

9. 1960 – Which United States Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe ?

10. 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about what ?

11. 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond the orbit of which heavenly body ?

12. 1990 – Violeta Chamorro becomes the first woman to take office as the President of which country ?

13. 2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing which car at the Lausitzring in Germany ?

14. 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by which army in 1937 ?

15. 2005 – Which two countries sign accession treaties to join the European Union ?