March 30

Well my birthday is one day away and to commemorate I thought I would list some famous things that occurred on my birthday.  FYI I just wrote 3 papers clocking in at 15 pages over the past 2 and 1/2 days so this post may rely more on visual aids then the potent power of my persuasive pen. (haha still got it)  Oh and there will be a quiz.

First Use of Anesthesia in 1842

Question I: Who was the doctor who used anesthesia for the first time?


Treaty of Paris is signed in 1856, ending the Crimean War

The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava

Question II: Name two of the combatants in the Crimean War. (There are 5 total)


The Queensboro Bridge opens to public traffic in 1909

Question III: What New York Burroughs are linked by the bridge?


The Red Army Captures Vienna in 1945

Red Flag over the Reichstag

Question IV: Name a Russian General from WWII, Stalin does not count.

1972 The Commencement of the Easter Offensive in Vietnam, the first major invasion of the NVA into South

 Vietnam since 1968

Question V: What was the major NVA offensive of 1968 known as?

The attempted assassination of President Reagen in 1981

Question VI: What was the assassins name?


1990 Gordon Szymanski is Born

Question VII: Where was I born?  Japan doesn't count in this case, you have to get the island.  Hint: it was the final battlefield of WWII

Answers Below:

Just a picture to seperate the answers

Answers:

I- Crawford Long

II- (Possible Choices) Britain, France, Ottoman Empire, Sardinia, and Russia

III-Manhattan and Queens

IV-Zhukov, Timeshenko, Kovel, Chuikov, are some of the more famous ones

V-Tet Offensive

VI- John Hinkley Jr

VII- Okinawa