What happened in the year you were born?

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  • smaihlee
    smaihlee Posts: 171 Member
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    Jim Morrison died :cry:
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
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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 ratified
  • seilidhe
    seilidhe Posts: 1,042 Member
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    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. :D
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,908 Member
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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: )
  • Monkey_Business
    Monkey_Business Posts: 1,800 Member
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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 ratified

    HEY!

    I resemble that remark! :wink:
  • autumny70
    autumny70 Posts: 127 Member
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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.
  • MNA76
    MNA76 Posts: 1,541
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    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.
  • becckii
    becckii Posts: 32 Member
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    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:
  • depuydt2011
    depuydt2011 Posts: 46 Member
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    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' button
  • depuydt2011
    depuydt2011 Posts: 46 Member
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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 :smile:
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
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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 :smile:

    1927?
  • depuydt2011
    depuydt2011 Posts: 46 Member
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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 :smile:

    1927?

    well that would make both clinton and me a lot older
  • KeithChanning
    KeithChanning Posts: 214 Member
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    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 Ireland
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
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    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...
  • 5ftnFun
    5ftnFun Posts: 948 Member
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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.
  • Stump_Likker
    Stump_Likker Posts: 2,059 Member
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    We landed on the moon.
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
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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.
  • HyugasHeiress
    HyugasHeiress Posts: 26 Member
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    1994 : Justin Bieber was born ... (sorry for that haha :))
  • FitCurves444
    FitCurves444 Posts: 169 Member
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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.
  • redbev306
    redbev306 Posts: 62
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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.

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