On This Day (August 14th) Multiple Choice

1. 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of where ?

2. 1288 – Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to which village on the banks of the Düssel river ?

3. 1370 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to the European town of Carlsbad which is now known by what name ?

4. 1592 – The first sighting of which island group by Queen Elizabeth I chief navigator John Davis ?

5. 1598 – Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces defeat an English expeditionary force. In which county was the battle fought ?

6. 1814 – A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended which war ?

7. 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of what product ?

8. 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce what ?

9. 1912 – U.S. Marines invade which country to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier ?

10. 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in the last known public execution in the United States in which state ?

11. 1967 – UK Offences Act declares participation in what illegal ?

12. 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in which city ?

13. 1980 – Lech Wałęsa leads strikes in which Polish city ?

14. 2003 – What event affects the northeast United States and Canada ?

15. 2015 – The US Embassy in which city re-opens after 54 years of being closed ?