On This Day (August 6th) Multiple Choice

1. 1538 – Which South American capital city is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ?

2. 1819 – Norwich University is founded as the first private military school in the United States in which state ?

3. 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from which nation ?

4. 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by what means ?

5. 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany and Austria declares war on which country ?

6. 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to do what ?

7. 1926 – In New York City, the Warner Bros.' Vitaphone system premieres with which movie starring John Barrymore ?

8. 1940 – Which country is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union ?

9. 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 named what ?

10. 1962 – Which island nation becomes independent from the United Kingdom ?

11. 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the Australian coast dumps a record 13 inches of rain in a day on which city ?

12. 1996 – The Ramones played their farewell concert at The Palace in which US city ?

13. 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains what ?

14. 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in which African country ?

15. 2012 – NASA's rover lands on the surface of Mars. What was it's name ?