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On This Day (August 20th) Multiple Choice
Can you answer these questions relating to events that happened on August 20th?
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1.
1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of what ?
Treason
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Heresy
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Witchcraft
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Murder
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2.
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in which Dutch city ?
The Hague
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Apeldoorn
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Voorburg
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Haarlem
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3.
1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin in the place that became which modern day city ?
El Paso
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Tuscon
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San Antonio
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Las Vegas
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4.
1866 – Which US President formally declares the American Civil War over ?
Abraham Lincoln
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James Buchanan
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Andrew Johnson
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5.
1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in which city ?
Vienna
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Budapest
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Moscow
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Paris
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6.
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in which US city ?
Cincinatti
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Detroit
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New York
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Los Angeles
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7.
1940 – Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader in which city ?
Mexico City
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San Salvador
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Havana
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Caracas
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8.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of which country begins with a major Soviet Union offensive ?
Moldova
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Bulgaria
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Romania
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Czechoslovakia
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9.
1977 – NASA launches which spacecraft ?
Viking 1
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Voyager 2
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Pioneer 11
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Voyager 1
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10.
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the fires in which US National Park ?
Yosemite
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Kings Canyon
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Shenandoah
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Yellowstone
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11.
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost how many years of war ?
Eight
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Six
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Four
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Twelve
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12.
1989 – The pleasure boat "Marchioness" sinks after a collision on which British river ?
Severn
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Mersey
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Thames
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Tyne
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13.
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, by leaders of which two nations ?
Morocco and Western Sahara
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Israel and Palestine
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Georgia and Armenia
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India and Pakistan
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14.
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in which European city ?
Berlin, Germany
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London, UK
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Rome, Italy
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Budapest, Hungary
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2012 – A prison riot kills at least 20 people in which South American city ?
Sao Paolo
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Buenos Aires
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Caracas
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Lima
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