On This Day (August 26th) Multiple Choice

1. 1444 – A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near which Swiss city ?

2. 1542 – Francisco de Orellana completed the first known navigation of which river ?

3. 1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America is founded in which city ?.

4. 1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board which ship ?.

5. 1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in which country ?

6. 1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for which invention ?

7. 1883 – The 1883 eruption of which volcano begins its final, paroxysmal, stage ?

8. 1914 – World War I: Which German colony surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign ?

9. 1940 – Which country becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor ?

10. 1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters which French city ?

11. 1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of which region ?

12. 1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as which Pope ?

13. 1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in which Nevada community ?

14. 2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for how many years ?

15. 1910 – Mother Teresa, nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate is born in which Eastern European city ?