Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1.
799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, which Pope flees to the Frankish court of King Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection ?
2.
1134 – Which city was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the _____ Bishopric around 1094 ?
3.
1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person to be executed by what means ?
4.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for which construction project ?
5.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require what ?
Automobile License Plates.
✓
6.
1940 – The flag of which island group is approved by the British occupation government ?
7.
1945 – Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in which city ?
8.
1954 – Bell Telephone Laboratories publicly demonstrates the first practical what ?
9.
1960 – Which United States Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe ?
10.
1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about what ?
11.
1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond the orbit of which heavenly body ?
12.
1990 – Violeta Chamorro becomes the first woman to take office as the President of which country ?
13.
2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing which car at the Lausitzring in Germany ?
14.
2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by which army in 1937 ?
15.
2005 – Which two countries sign accession treaties to join the European Union ?