On This Day (August 20th) Multiple Choice

1. 1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of what ?

2. 1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in which Dutch city ?

3. 1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin in the place that became which modern day city ?

4. 1866 – Which US President formally declares the American Civil War over ?

5. 1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in which city ?

6. 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in which US city ?

7. 1940 – Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader in which city ?

8. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of which country begins with a major Soviet Union offensive ?

9. 1977 – NASA launches which spacecraft ?

10. 1988 – "Black Saturday" of the fires in which US National Park ?

11. 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost how many years of war ?

12. 1989 – The pleasure boat "Marchioness" sinks after a collision on which British river ?

13. 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, by leaders of which two nations ?

14. 2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in which European city ?

15. 2012 – A prison riot kills at least 20 people in which South American city ?