On This Day (August 24th) Multiple Choice

1. 410 – The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage which city ?

2. 1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for what ?

3. 1482 – The town and castle of which town is captured from Scotland by an English army ?

4. 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept what ?

5. 1812 – Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of which city ?

6. 1891 – Thomas Edison patents which of his inventions ?

7. 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for which construction project ?

8. 1911 – Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of which country ?

9. 1914 – World War I: German troops capture which Belgian city ?

10. 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop from Los Angeles to where ?

11. 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to which organisation ?

12. 1967 – The Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing what from the viewing gallery ?

13. 1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in which country ?

14. 1995 – Which Microsoft product was released to the public in North America ?

15. 2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines which heavenly body ?