small history quiz

[jims69camaro]

can you identify the significance of these dates in history?

1. december 7, 1941
2. february 26, 1993
3. september 11, 2001
4. july 4, 1776
5. october 4, 1957
6. august 6, 1945
7. november 22, 1963
8. june 12, 1963
9. september 6, 1972
10. april 15, 1998

it is my considered opinion that you should know these dates. i wonder what they teach kids in school these days if these are not covered? sometimes it's retention, i know, but some of these dates altered the course of history, incontrovertibly.

feel free to discuss, but please no google or wikipedia definitions.

[Knipps]

Jim, sad to say most of the focus of today's schools isn't to memorize dates but to observe that these events have occurred. That, and i know my school didn't really cover much since WWII

[Squirrel]

yeah...i do...but im above average in intelligence

[WayFast84]

1. december 7, 1941, pearl harbor?
2. february 26, 1993 desert storm?
3. september 11, 2001 duh
4. july 4, 1776, duh
5. october 4, 1957 no clue
6. august 6, 1945 end of ww2?
7. november 22, 1963 no clue
8. june 12, 1963 no clue
9. september 6, 1972 no clue
10. april 15, 1998 no clue

[Squirrel]

Originally Posted by WayFast84

1. december 7, 1941, pearl harbor?
2. february 26, 1993 desert storm?
3. september 11, 2001 duh
4. july 4, 1776, duh
5. october 4, 1957 no clue
6. august 6, 1945 end of ww2?
7. november 22, 1963 no clue
8. june 12, 1963 no clue
9. september 6, 1972 no clue
10. april 15, 1998 no clue

1. yup
2. no, 9/11 number 1
3. yup
4. yup
5. something with russia, not sure though
6. pretty much lol...but, bomb heard round the world
7. back and to the left
8. dont know this one
9. hm...dont know
10. the space shuttle thing....and taxes were due

[BigAls87Z28]

Originally Posted by jims69camaro

can you identify the significance of these dates in history?

1. december 7, 1941
2. february 26, 1993
3. september 11, 2001
4. july 4, 1776
5. october 4, 1957
6. august 6, 1945
7. november 22, 1963
8. june 12, 1963
9. september 6, 1972
10. april 15, 1998

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Wayfast's answer is just fustraiting me...so ill come out of retirement for a quick post...

1- Pearl Harbor
2- WTC bombing, unsuccessful
3- 2 air planes into both WTC towers, successful
4- When America declaired its independance from Britan
5- Sputnik first in space
6- Japan surrenders after 2 a-bombs hit the home land
7- JFK got shot
8- Cuban Missle crisis? Im not too sure on that.
9- Nixon resigned?
10- USS Cole bombed
space shuttle happend in the 80's and recently in 2003

[SupermanX24]

i was good from 1-4 then i didn't know. Then again I haven't had a history class in almost 5 years.

[ar0ck]

9. September 6, 1972 Is massacre @ the Munic 72' Winter Olympics in Germany.

[baddest434]

#8-the assassination of medgar evers jackson a civil rights activist

[shane27]

if i didnt know them id google them. but i know the first 4 anyway

[jims69camaro]

you guys are getting real close to nailing the whole list. i'd agree that some are a bit obscured by other events and not as easily brought to mind.

nice work on the munich massacre. and #6 was hiroshima. japan didn't surrender until a few days later. of course, the following day was the second bomb "test" on live people.

nice work on medgar evars, too. now, did you know that, or did you have to look it up?

to be truthful, i remembered many of the dates of the events. others i was close, as in month and year, but had to look up the exact day.

july 2, 1776 was the day the major revisions were made to the declaration of independence. july 4 was the day they accepted the revisions and made the document public, thereby severing ties with england.

i won't give the rest away just yet. suffice it to say that most of them were "bombs" in one way or another.

[Featherburner]

Originally Posted by jims69camaro

#6 was hiroshima. japan didn't surrender until a few days later. of course, the following day was the second bomb "test" on live people.

If you are giving a history quiz get your facts right. The second bomb, due to poor weather conditions, was dropped on 8/9/45 and Japan surrendered on 8/15/45.

[79T/A]

I think April 15, 1998 was the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh. I remember standing on the lawn outside of my classroom at MCC the day after because some insensitive moron thought it a grand idea to call in a bomb threat the day after the tragedy.

[WildBillyT]

Originally Posted by jims69camaro

you guys are getting real close to nailing the whole list. i'd agree that some are a bit obscured by other events and not as easily brought to mind.

nice work on the munich massacre. and #6 was hiroshima. japan didn't surrender until a few days later. of course, the following day was the second bomb "test" on live people.

nice work on medgar evars, too. now, did you know that, or did you have to look it up?

to be truthful, i remembered many of the dates of the events. others i was close, as in month and year, but had to look up the exact day.

july 2, 1776 was the day the major revisions were made to the declaration of independence. july 4 was the day they accepted the revisions and made the document public, thereby severing ties with england.

i won't give the rest away just yet. suffice it to say that most of them were "bombs" in one way or another.

The picture of the ski masked terrorist in Munich '72 has always been kind of chilling to me.

How about April 30, 1975?

[jims69camaro]

Originally Posted by WildBillyT

The picture of the ski masked terrorist in Munich '72 has always been kind of chilling to me.

How about April 30, 1975?

that doesn't ring a bell. i'd have to look it up.

[jims69camaro]

Originally Posted by Featherburner

If you are giving a history quiz get your facts right. The second bomb, due to poor weather conditions, was dropped on 8/9/45 and Japan surrendered on 8/15/45.

i stand corrected. thank you.

Originally Posted by BBC 'This day in history'

In Context - August 6, 1945
The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy" - a reference to former President Roosevelt, contained the equivalent of between 12 and 15,000 tons of TNT and devastated an area of five square miles (13 square kilometres). More than 60% of the buildings in the city were destroyed.

Official Japanese figures at the time put the death toll at 118,661 civilians. But later estimates suggest the final toll was about 140,000, of Hiroshima's 350,000 population, including military personnel and those who died later from radiation. Many have also suffered long-term sickness and disability.

Three days later, the United States launched a second, bigger atomic bomb against the city of Nagasaki. The device known as "Fat man", after Winston Churchill, weighed nearly 4,050 kg (nearly 9,000lb).

Nagasaki is surrounded by mountains and because of this the level of destruction was confined to about 2.6 square miles or 6.7 square kilometres.

Nearly 74,000 were killed and a similar number injured.

The two atomic bombs, with the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945, finally left the Japanese no choice.

Japan surrendered to the Allies on 14 August 1945.

[jims69camaro]

Originally Posted by 79T/A

I think April 15, 1998 was the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh. I remember standing on the lawn outside of my classroom at MCC the day after because some insensitive moron thought it a grand idea to call in a bomb threat the day after the tragedy.

close, but no cigar. that date was in 1995, and it was april 19 (again, i knew the year and month, but not the exact day).

this date, april 15, 1998, aside from being the normal day that americans must file their income tax returns to avoid penalties if they owe money to the government, was the day pol pot died. as the leader of the khmer rouge, he led a revolutionary force in cambodia, and reigned between 1975 and 1979. some say he used bizarre tactics, others say he was a torturer and murderer, and caused the death of over a million people either by murder, starvation or overwork (under his rule, all people were ejected from their normal jobs and put to work in the fields; he abolished all forms of wealth and ownership). the US got involved because the khmer rouge's ideals were communist based, and we all know how the US feared global communism. for many survivors of that era, the joy of his demise will only be tempered with the regret that he was not called to account for his crimes against humanity. although a power struggle inside the khmer rouge put him under house arrest for life in 1997, he was not brought to trial for his "war crimes".