What happened in the year you were born?
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The Leafs won the Stanley Cup! (Likely won't see that again. :grumble: )
- The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- Movies: Red Desert, Dr. Strangelove, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek, Becket
- Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa
- China detonates its first atomic bomb.
- Martin Luther King Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize ( Oct 14)
- U.S. military forces launch attacks on North Vietnam in response to an alleged attack on a U.S. destroyer off the Vietnamese coast; Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution.0 -
let's see
*There was a big blizzard in Ohio and the great lakes
*Air India flight 855 crashed
*It was a year for serial killers? Ted Bundy was captured, Richard Chase and John Wayne Gacy were arrested and David Berkowitz was sentenced
*2 Popes died
*First test tube baby was born (no it's not me)
*Yankees won the world series
*FIFA in Argentina
*Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.
*Charles Chaplin's coffin is stolen and then found some 15 km from the cemetery from which it was taken
*American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed
*Garfield comic strip makes it's debut
*Artificial insulin is invented
*Born Ashton Kutcher, Jensen Ackles, Chad Ocho Cinco,Tim Hasselbeck, James Franco,Scott Raynor, Kurt Bush, Kobe Bryant, Tim McIlrath,Shaun Morgan,
*Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!
*Van Halen - Van Halen
*Rush - Hemispheres
*AC/DC - Powerage
*AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
*Judas Priest - Stained Class
We're the same age! I turn 35 on Saturday.0 -
The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally
The British Conservative Party chooses it's first woman leader, Margaret Thatcher
Motorolla obtains patent for the first portable mobile phone
The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) and Microsoft becomes a registered trademark
Jimmy Hoffa ex teamsters boss disappears never to be seen again0 -
•Grease
•Saturday Night Fever
•Close Encounters of the Third Kind
•National Lampoon's Animal House
•Jaws 2
•Heaven Can Wait
•Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
•Revenge of the Pink Panther
•The Deer Hunter
•Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallendas, dies after falling off a tight-rope
•Argentina Wins World Cup in Argentina
•Cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II
•The Cult leader Jim Jones instructed over 900 members of his church, "People's Temple", to commit suicide in Guyana0 -
My parents did it. Gross0
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•Record company EMI sacks the controversial UK punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
•Star Wars opens in cinemas and filmgoers line up for hours to see it
•The TV Mini Series "Roots" is aired on ABC winning top audience figures, 9 Emmys and a Golden Globe
•Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released
•The Clash release their first album "The Clash "
•Perhaps most important in Popular Culture is the development of punk music. from groups like the Ramones, Iggy Pop's ,Clash, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers, and the Sex Pistols
•The King " Elvis Presley" Dies at the age of 42 from a heart attack August 16th
Suddenly I feel old. You darn kids!0 -
•YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
•Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during the trial for murdering his girlfriend
•Pink Floyd release the multi award winning concept album "The Wall" with the top selling single "Another Brick in the Wall"
•The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
•The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
Popular Films
•Superman The Movie
•Every Which Way But Loose
•Rocky II
•Alien
•The Amityville Horror
•Star Trek: The Motion Picture
•Moonraker
•The Muppet Movie
•The Deer Hunter
•Kramer vs. Kramer
without googling, i'm saying 1979?
good job
You cannot be 33. No way.
I'm 34,, shhhh don't tell anyone0 -
Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC
Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys
Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs found Apple Computer
Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run
Latenitelucy is born
Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
"Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
In Film:
Rocky
A Star is Born
Carrie
Taxi Driver
The Omen
King Kong
All the President's Men
The Bad News Bears
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Network
we were born the same year 1976 cool0 -
44 years ago...
Man landed on the moon...at least that is what we are taught in the US.
A little music get together called Woodstock.
The US institutes the draft lottery to determine draft into US Forces for Vietnam War. In turn 250,000 people marched Washington protesting the Vietnam war.
Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder five people.
Lastly from what I was told everybody applauded when I was born.0 -
Led Zeppelin released their first album
Nixon becomes Prez
Boeing 747
FLQ terrorist bombings in Montreal.
Moon landing
John Lennon marries Yoko Ono
Teenager dies of an unknown disease. Years later in 1984 it is confirmed as the first case of AIDS
Abbey Road
Charles Manson murders
Woodstock
The Gap
Homosexuality decriminalized in Canada
Sesame Street
Ontario Science Centre opens in Toronto
many many many vietnam war protests.
The poster above me was born.... and so was I, most likely in different hospitals from different moms0 -
Jim Morrison died
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Oh, good lord! this thread is making me feel old if it wasn't for 1066AD & TeamDale. I'd be complete beside myself.
23rd Amendment was ratified0 -
1958 bought Americans recession with a vengeance and large increases in unemployment over 7.0% ( 5.2 million ) , inflation dipped below 2% in 1958 so those in work earning the average wages of $3,851 per year were quite well off , cars continued to get bigger and heavier with larger engines, but imports continued to grow now with the added Datsun and more Toyotas from Japan. Americas first satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral. This is also the year that the Microchip first developed which is the very early stages of PC's we all now use at work and at home. This was also the year of the Munich air disaster on 6th February in which 7 Manchester United Players died.
Edsel Automobiles begin selling the Citation and Corsair, Pacer and Ranger cars ( closes down end of 1959 )
Sir Edmund Hillary reaches the South Pole
Elvis Presley is inducted into the Army. -- (This would be my daughter's idea of the most important event in 1958).
The Microchip co-invented by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductors later developed and marketed in US by Intel
The Wham-O company introduces the Hula Hoop; over 100 million are sold.
Popular Films
•The Bridge on the River Kwai
•South Pacific
•Gigi
•King Creole
•Vertigo
Popular Singers
•Elvis Presley
•Billie Holiday
•Ricky Nelson
•Frank Sinatra
•The Everly Brothers
•Ella Fitzgerald
•Jerry Lee Lewis
Popular TV Programmes
•Candid Camera
•The Ed Sullivan Show
•Come Dancing
•The Jack Benny Show
•Panorama
•Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Tim Burton, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Ellen DeGeneres, Mark Cuban, Kevin Sorbo, Kevin Bacon, Alex Baldwin, Drew Carey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Scott Hamilton, Alan Jackson, Joan Jett, Viggo Mortensen, Gary Oldman, Prince, Ice T, Keenan Ivory Wayans, lots of other people including me were born.
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1981 Syria Warns Israel 23rd May 1981 : Syria has warned Israel that if it attacks Syria or Lebanon it will attack in the heart of Israel and was prepared to go to war to protect it's country, and could lead to a full scale middle east war.
MTV was launched in August of 1981. Remember when it was only music television? Those were the days. MTV should have stayed in the ’80s.
The first recognized cases of AIDS were found in Los Angeles.
Also in Los Angeles, four people in the Wonderland Gang, the infamous drug ring located mostly at Wonderland Drive in Laurel Canyon, were murdered.
Ronald Reagan, a Californian, becomes president.
That same year, Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded.
But later he nominates Judge Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman on US Supreme Court.
Lady Di marries Prince Charles. It is still the most talked about wedding in the last 30-something years.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is the top grossing film raking in about $209,562,121.
It’s a good year for medical progress. The first combined heart-lung transplant is performed and the first American test-tube baby is born.
The Oakland Raiders are first wild card playoff team to ever win a Super Bowl.
Bob Marley and Natalie Wood die. Pop John Paul almost dies after getting shot.
Artificial sweetener, aspartame, is approved by the FDA. It just goes to show that it’s true that liberal use of white powder in the ’80s is what led to the downfall of humanity.
Out of the crap economy, all sorts of “new” musical styles like hip-hop, new wave, and independent punk rock started to develop. Some choice artists popular that year include Depeche Mode, New Order, Prince, Sugar Hill, and Blondie.
Speaking of music, remember when Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a dove at that press thing?
How's that for a good year?
All of this. (Sometimes it's okay to be lazy :bigsmile: )0 -
Oh, good lord! this thread is making me feel old if it wasn't for 1066AD & TeamDale. I'd be complete beside myself.
23rd Amendment was ratified
HEY!
I resemble that remark!
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Cyclone in Bangladesh kills 500,000
Earthquake in Peru kills 67,000
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations
Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded
Apollo 13 mission to moon abandoned
Japan becomes the worlds “fourth space power”, after the Soviet Union (1957), the United States (1958), and France (1965).
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First Earth Day celebrated
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ) begins operation
US increases import duty taxes to protect American Jobs
President Abdel Nasser of Egypt dies and 5 million turn out to honour him
US Invades Cambodia
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100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War
The Worlds Population reaches 3.63 billion
The US Population reaches 205 million
The US lowers the voting age to 18 from 21 when President Nixon Signs the bill into law on June 22nd
California becomes the first US State to adopt "No Fault" Divorce law.
The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed
Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
The iconic live album The Who: Live at Leeds is recorded.
The Isle of Wight Festival takes place . 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Jethro Tull.
Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose in London
Janis Joplin dies in a cheap motel from a heroin overdose
Chevrolet release the second generation Camaro.0 -
Total and complete awesomeness starting on the 29th of August because the world got me!!!!!!!
Oh and the American Bicentennial. I guess that that's kind of cool too.0 -
January 14th 1990
The Simpsons premiered on Fox-TV
Do They Know It's Christmas? Band Aid II was number 1 in Ireland.
What a **** year to be born I missed the 80's by 2 weeks. Not that I would have remembered or enjoyed it or anything! :ohwell:0 -
I really don't remember. I was quite young at the time....
oh gosh comments like this make me wish this site had Facebook's 'like' button0 -
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.16 Movie Ticket $4.14
•Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center
•Ferry in Haiti sinks - over 1000 die
•Federal Agents raid religious cult Waco, Texas on 28th February
•Apartment building collapses in Malaysia killing 48
•An anti-abortion activist murders a doctor outside an abortion clinic
•Harley Davidson Motorcycles are 90 years old
•Two former police officers are convicted of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King
•Dyson sells the first bagless cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner
•The first cloning of a Human Embryo by 2 American Scientists.
•Police begin investigations of child abuse by Michael Jackson
•Bill Clinton President of the United States
Popular and new:
•Jurassic Park
•Mrs. Doubtfire
•Sleepless in Seattle
•Schindler's List
•Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Guess my year
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Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.16 Movie Ticket $4.14
•Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center
•Ferry in Haiti sinks - over 1000 die
•Federal Agents raid religious cult Waco, Texas on 28th February
•Apartment building collapses in Malaysia killing 48
•An anti-abortion activist murders a doctor outside an abortion clinic
•Harley Davidson Motorcycles are 90 years old
•Two former police officers are convicted of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King
•Dyson sells the first bagless cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner
•The first cloning of a Human Embryo by 2 American Scientists.
•Police begin investigations of child abuse by Michael Jackson
•Bill Clinton President of the United States
Popular and new:
•Jurassic Park
•Mrs. Doubtfire
•Sleepless in Seattle
•Schindler's List
•Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Guess my year
1927?0 -
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.16 Movie Ticket $4.14
•Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center
•Ferry in Haiti sinks - over 1000 die
•Federal Agents raid religious cult Waco, Texas on 28th February
•Apartment building collapses in Malaysia killing 48
•An anti-abortion activist murders a doctor outside an abortion clinic
•Harley Davidson Motorcycles are 90 years old
•Two former police officers are convicted of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King
•Dyson sells the first bagless cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner
•The first cloning of a Human Embryo by 2 American Scientists.
•Police begin investigations of child abuse by Michael Jackson
•Bill Clinton President of the United States
Popular and new:
•Jurassic Park
•Mrs. Doubtfire
•Sleepless in Seattle
•Schindler's List
•Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Guess my year
1927?
well that would make both clinton and me a lot older0 -
NATO founded
West Germany established
People's Republic of China proclaimed by Chairman Mau Zedong
Apartheid institutionalised in South Africa
Britain recognised the independence of the Republic of Ireland0 -
How would I know, I was so young...I really don't remember much before I was about 8 years old...everything before that is pretty much a blur of random images and what not...0
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1961 : JFK inaugurated , Pampers introduced as the first disposable diaper, the Peace Corps was established and you could buy a house for an average price of $12,500.0
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We landed on the moon.0
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Gas was less than 30¢ a gallon and they gave you a free glass or steak knife or salad bowl with a fill-up.0
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1994 : Justin Bieber was born ... (sorry for that haha) 0
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The year I was born, post-it's were invented.... which proves that Romy & MIchelle did not invent post-it's because while they were already very much alive, they were only about 9 or 10.0
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Chernobyl, the Centennial of the statue of liberty, Iran-Contra affair, Mike Tyson won his first world title, Kat Dennings & Usain Bolt were born.0
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