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  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    1960

    lazers invented
  • littlefreckle91
    littlefreckle91 Posts: 169
    August 31 1961-Construction of the Berlin Wall is completed after 18 days.
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
    1962-Marilyn Monroe dies.
  • deejaycee114
    deejaycee114 Posts: 139 Member
    1963 - JFK is assissinated in Dallas, TX on November 22
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    1964: The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo is captured
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    1965 Movie: Beach Blanket Bingo

    and history: Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995. that is $7,267.76 today, adjusted for inflation.
  • heyitsmegxx
    heyitsmegxx Posts: 444
    1966-

    Jan 8th - Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
  • TheOriginalGinging
    TheOriginalGinging Posts: 171
    May 25th The Turtles song "Happy Together" hits #1
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    1967

    the worlds first heart transplant takes place in south africa
  • stetienne
    stetienne Posts: 560 Member
    1968
    MLK and Robert Kennedy assassinated.
    Civil Rights Act.
    Prague Spring.
  • mamamc03
    mamamc03 Posts: 1,067 Member
    1969 MOON LANDING!!!
  • zippo32
    zippo32 Posts: 1,407 Member
    images41.jpg
  • marzinator13
    marzinator13 Posts: 149 Member
    1971 - cigarette ads banned from tv
  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    1972 - Nixon goes to China
  • killernut
    killernut Posts: 11
    1973 - World Trade Center in New York City, is dedicated.
  • mfp_junkie
    mfp_junkie Posts: 359
    1972 - Nixon goes to China

    and The Joy of Sex is first published.
  • mommanurse33
    mommanurse33 Posts: 189 Member
    1973 World Trade Center in New York becomes the tallest building in the world
  • llahairdna
    llahairdna Posts: 502 Member
    1974 - •Richard Nixon becomes the first US president forced to resign after the Watergate Scandal
  • RistinaWin
    RistinaWin Posts: 35 Member
    1974 - President Gerald Ford gives unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon
  • ILoveJesus72
    ILoveJesus72 Posts: 181 Member
    1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears and is never heard from again
  • ILoveJesus72
    ILoveJesus72 Posts: 181 Member
    1976 - •NASA Unviels first space shuttle, the Enterprise
  • killernut
    killernut Posts: 11
    1977 - The first Apple II computers went on sale
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    1978>space invaders launches craze for computer video games




    oh and i was married to my darling hubbie
  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes first female Prime Minister of the UK
  • RideaYeti
    RideaYeti Posts: 211 Member
    1980 Miracle on Ice - US beats USSR in ice hockey
  • aamb
    aamb Posts: 377 Member
    1981, 29th july. prince charles marries lady diana spencer
  • Amy911Gray
    Amy911Gray Posts: 685 Member
    Big News Headlines in 1982

    Lech Walesa, former leader of Solidarity, the Polish labor union, is freed after 11 months of internment under martial law.

    The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight.

    Actor John Belushi is found dead of a drug overdose in a West Hollywood hotel.

    Automobile manufacturer John DeLorean is arrested and charged with possession of 59 pounds of cocaine.

    The first artificial heart is implanted in American Barney Clark.

    AND I WAS A PART OF THE LAST GRADUATING CLASS OF FOREST PARK HIGH SCHOOL--BEAUMONT TEXAS (WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE)
  • heyitsmegxx
    heyitsmegxx Posts: 444
    1983:


    February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H is aired and the record of most watched episode is broken.
  • RideaYeti
    RideaYeti Posts: 211 Member
    1984 - The Apple Macintosh is introduced
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    1985- Back to the Future comes out in theaters. 1.21 Gigawatts!!!

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