On This Day (August 13th) Multiple Choice

1. 29 BC – Octavian holds the first of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the tribes from which region ?

2. 523 – Who becomes the new Pope after the death of Pope Hormisdas ?

3. 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested as a heretic by John Calvin in which European city ?

4. 1645 – Sweden and which other nation sign Peace of Brömsebro ?

5. 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become which regiment ?

6. 1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared to be what ?

7. 1889 – William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408709 for what invention ?

8. 1913 – The first production in the UK of which product ?

9. 1918 – Which motor car manufacturer is established as a public company in Germany ?

10. 1942 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as what ?

11. 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts what for the first time ?

12. 1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from which nation ?

13. 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people to be executed in which country ?

14. 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are honoured in what way in New York City ?

15. 2008 – Russian units occupy part of which country ?