On This Day (August 8th) Multiple Choice

1. 1220 – Sweden is defeated by tribes from which country in the Battle of Lihula ?

2. 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in which city ?

3. 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on which Scandinavian island ?

4. 1786 – Which European mountain is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard ?

5. 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage starting near which city ?

6. 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is reaffirmed as the leading body of which church ?

7. 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. What does it do ?

8. 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first public flight at a racecourse in which city ?

9. 1929 – A German airship going by which name begins a round-the-world flight ?

10. 1945 – The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for what ?

11. 1963 – Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes from a train heading to London from where ?

12. 1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of which Beatles' album ?

13. 1988 – The first night baseball game in the history of which park ?

14. 1991 – A radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses in which European city ?

15. 2000 – Confederate submarine "H.L. Hunley" is raised to the surface after how many years on the ocean floor ?