On This Day (August 3rd) Multiple Choice

1. 435 – Deposed Archbishop of Constantinople, Nestorius, is exiled by Roman Emperor, Theodosius II, to a monastery in which country ?

2. 1057 – Frederik van Lotharingen elected as Pope Stephen IX. He is the first Pope from which country ?

3. 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while he was in which modern day place ?

4. 1601 – Long War: Austria captures which European region in the Battle of Goroszló ?

5. 1811 – First ascent of which mountain by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer ?

6. 1829 – The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by which two peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River ?

7. 1900 – Which well known tyre company is founded ?

8. 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France, while which country declares its neutrality ?

9. 1946 – Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in which US city ?

10. 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers killing over 50 people in which city ?

11. 1977 – Which corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers ?

12. 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, in which city ?

13. 2005 – The president of which country is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia ?

14. 2019 – Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in which city ?

15. 2019 – Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas. It occured in a store belonging to which company ?