What happened in the year you were born?

redbev306

93?

redbev306

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

93? sorry I meant to quote this in my last post!

RN514

The last decade of the 20th century began

danger2oneself2

What I found on the internet "must be true"

U.S.
A new drug Crack appears ( A derivative of Cocaine ) and is increasingly found in US Cities
Gibralta
UK SAS kill suspected IRA bombers in Gibraltar
UK
The English Pound Note ceases to be legal Tender

Carlyannabelle

•Doctors performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart designed by Robert Jarvik
Severe recession begins in the United States.
• The world's largest oil rig ( The Ocean Ranger ) sinks in the north Atlantic
•First CD player sold in Japan
•The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.
•The Soviet Spaceship Vanera 13 lands on Venus and sends back color Photographs
•Times man of The Year is THE COMPUTER
Scientist ( Scott Fahlman ) from Carnegie Mellon University first suggested the use of Smiley or emoticon as a way of expressing emotion in an email :-)

Popular films:
•E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
•Rocky III,
•Porky's
•An Officer and a Gentleman
•The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
•Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
•Poltergeist
•Annie
•Chariots of Fire
•Gandhi

TheRoadDog

1954

House: $22,000
Average income: $3,960
Ford car: $1548-$2415
Milk: $.92
Gas: $.21
Bread $.17
Postage stamp: $.03
Swiss Cheese: $ .69 lb.
American Cheese: $.55 lb.
T-Bone steak : $.95 lb.
Del Monte Catsup (2) 14.oz bottles: $.25
Post Grape Nuts cereal - 10 .oz pkg: $.19
Clorox Bleach - 1/2 gal.: $.19
20 gallon gas water heater $75.
Semi-automatic Kenmore washer: $154.95

Caliban036

Elvis died and Star Wars was released.

KANGOOJUMPS

just me being born is most important

BinaryPulsar

During the month/year that I was born there was a record breaking, catastrophic, historic blizzard.

littlelaura

My parents did it. Gross

mine did too, way gross! why couldn't I have been a test tube baby!

oh and my Mom claims Jim Morrison is my dad... oops.

TheCaren

Lunar landing.

TheEffort

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Anti Vietnam War protests
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act
Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
NASA launches Apollo 7

gabbygirl78

August 6 – Pope Paul VI dies in Castel Gandolfo.
August 26 – Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.
September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
September 25
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
October 2
The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 5–4 at Fenway Park to clinch the AL East after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier. The Yankees would eventually go on to defeat the Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Dodgers and win the World Series.
October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523).
November 18 – Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.
December 13 – The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation.
Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men, is arrested.
Artificial insulin is invented.
David Rorvik claims he has participated in a creation of a human clone in his book In His Image.
Abortion is legalized in Italy for the first time.
In Seoul, Korea, construction begins on Seoul Subway Line 2.
Ford initiates a recall for the Pinto because of a public outcry resulting from deaths associated with gas tank explosions
June 12 – Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 365 years in prison.
April 10 – Volkswagen becomes the second (after Rolls-Royce) non-American automobile manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North American version of the Volkswagen Golf, at the Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, Pennsylvania with a unionized (UAW) workforce (the plant closes in 1992.)
May 26 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida.
January 14 – January 15 – The body of former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, following his death from cancer.
The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.




Whoa... mine was the year of the serial killers I guess!:noway:

PrincessYorga

I was the first Bicentennial 4th of July baby born in my town AND I decided to ruin my mother's Independence Day picnic plans (I even got a blurb in the newspaper too, so it totally counts as news!!!)

In U.S. News:

- US Supreme Court rules that blacks and other minorities are entitled to retroactive job seniority (March 24).
- Ford signs Federal Election Campaign Act (May 11).
- US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable
form of punishment (July 3).
- Nation celebrates Bicentennial (July 4).
- Mysterious disease strikes American Legion convention in Philadelphia, eventually claiming 29 lives (Aug. 4).
- Jimmy Carter elected US President (Nov. 2).
- The $2.00 bill Issued.
- Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
- The Damned release New Rose - the first ever single released / marketed as "punk rock".

World News:

- Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot becomes prime minister (and virtual dictator) of Cambodia after Prince Sihanouk steps
down (April 2).
- Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers of
Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid (July 4).
- 19-month civil war ends in Lebanon after threatening to escalate to global level (Nov.).
- Population: 4.158 billion
- Nadia Comaneci wins 3 gold medals at the Montreal Olympics with seven perfect scores.
- The world’s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins in Sudan on June 27th.

:-)

FearAnLoathingJ

Beverly Hills supper club fire

Elvis died

World Trade Center was completed

The last execution by beheading

xoxolindseym

Kurt Cobain died.

StinkyWinkies

I was born, my mom celebrated her 21st birthday 2 days later, in a hospital room...she has never let me forget it (as though it is somehow my fault?! :noway: )

The first Ford Mustang was made.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.

ssaraj43

US Troops invade Cambodia
Four students killed Ohio State by National Guard
Unemployment 3.5%
The Beatles broke up
Monday Night football debut
George C. Scott wins Oscar for Patton,but refused it

herblackwings39

Watergate
Hurricane Agnes kills 117
First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) os introduced for $395
Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup
The Godfather is the top grossing film
Pink Floyd debuts "The Dark Side of the Moon" during a performance at London's Rainbow Theater
Munich Olympics Terror Attack

Andes Mountain Range / South America
16 survivors from plane crash survive and are rescued after practicing cannibalism

Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky to become the World Chess Champion in Reykjavik, Iceland
Last US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam
The last major epidemic of smallpox in Europe breaks out in Yugoslavia.
Bloody Friday 22 bombs explode in Belfast Ireland and 9 people are killed with a further 130 seriously injured.

Bloody Sunday14 unarmed Catholic protesters are gunned down by the British Army on bloody Sunday
The Equal Rights Amendment which provided for the legal equality of the sexes passed by the U.S. Senate on 22nd March
The worlds leaders agree to banning biological warfare
The Second Cod War between UK and Iceland
The Equal Rights Amendment which provided for the legal equality of the sexes passed by the U.S. Senate on 22nd March

Popular Films

The Godfather
Fiddler on the Roof
Diamonds Are Forever
What's Up, Doc?
Dirty Harry
The Last Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
Cabaret

Popular Musicians and songs

ABBA
Roxy Music
The Eagles
John Lennon
Paul Simon
Simon and Garfunkel
Rod Stewart
Don Mclean with " American Pie "
Michael Jackson with " Ben "
Elton John
The Moody Blues
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin

Popular TV Programmes

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Sesame Street
The Benny Hill Show
The Brady Bunch
Dad's Army
Hawaii Five-O
Here's Lucy

grantdumas7

Watergate...

^This

avalonms

Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near Camden, TN.
Alcatraz Prison closed.
The TV soap General Hospital debuted.
Patty Duke wins Best Supporting Actress for The Miracle Worker.
The Coca-Cola Co. introduces Tab.
For the first time, a woman goes into space.
Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped.
The Spy who Came in from the Cold is published.

CaliforniaBarbie

Year and month and days!
February

February 1
In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. He accepts a plea bargain, admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding.
Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which will eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
February 3 – William J. Perry is sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense.
February 4 – The Federal Open Market Committee raises the Fed Funds target rate for the first time since May 1989. The rate is raised by 25 basis points to 3¼ percent [1].
February 5 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
February 6 – Markale massacres: A Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
FEBRUARY 7- I WAS BORN!!!!
February 9 – The Vance-Owen Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced.
February 12
Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on May 7).
The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer.
February 22 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice. Ames is later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; his wife receives 5 years in prison.
February 24 – In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
February 27 – Australian Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a pork barreling fashion.
February 28 – 4 United States F-16s shoot down 4 Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.