Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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  • GracefulDancer4Christ
    GracefulDancer4Christ Posts: 419 Member
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    I will pick the two that occured the day I was born because 1975 had tons of historical events like 10 pages worth

    June 5, 1975 President Sadat re opens Suez Canal
    June 5, 1975 Europe agrees to common market membership
  • resolv13
    resolv13 Posts: 87 Member
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    86 - Chernobyl disaster
  • _Witsy_
    _Witsy_ Posts: 609 Member
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    82

    Besides my birth (obviously a important to all), E.T. was released.
  • jessmart83
    jessmart83 Posts: 283 Member
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    On my birthday......
    February 18, 1983:
    * Edwin P. Wilson, an agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1970, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for illegally exporting explosives to Libya.
  • Mavrick7a
    Mavrick7a Posts: 1,353
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    1492 - Some european guy, claimed to have discovered America :laugh:
  • aaronlawrenc
    aaronlawrenc Posts: 666 Member
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    I was born
  • junejadesky
    junejadesky Posts: 524 Member
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    1975 Historcial Events

    Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime

    "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg opens

    Heiress/bank robber Patricia Campbell Hearst captured by FBI in SF

    "Saturday Night Live" premieres with guest host George Carlin

    Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president

    As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,229 Member
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    Well my favorite event was that the Garfield comic strip first appeared in national publications on the very day that I was born.

    Coincidentally, that was 78.
  • aaronlawrenc
    aaronlawrenc Posts: 666 Member
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    Ghostbusters-1983
  • kapot
    kapot Posts: 53
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    Margaret Thatcher was the 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consecutive terms.
  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
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    1992: Hurricane Andrew rips through Miami. Was a month old and we were living in the heart of Miami, and we were lucky enough that our house hardly had a scratch, apparently. I also slept through most of it.
  • Skrib69
    Skrib69 Posts: 687 Member
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    Another Woodstock and moon walk here - 1969
  • tobirhae
    tobirhae Posts: 108 Member
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    Jonestown - 1978

    I was born on the exact day of the Jonestown mass suicide.
  • Cadori
    Cadori Posts: 4,810 Member
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    December 1980. John Lennon died a few days before I was born.
  • sugboog29
    sugboog29 Posts: 630 Member
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    Jan 1st - United States Navy SEALs established
    Mar 1st - K-Mart opens
    Nov 29th - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build Concorde (my birthday)

    All in 1962
  • cwaters120
    cwaters120 Posts: 354 Member
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    the DAY of my birthday:

    -Cher divorces Sonny Bono
    - Indian PM Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency
    - Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

    the YEAR I was born 1975:
    •The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally
    •The US Carries out Vietnam "Operation Babylift" bringing Vietnamese orphans to the US
    • New York City avoids bankruptcy when President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion loan
  • supermel_69
    supermel_69 Posts: 15
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    The day I was born the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened
  • mychellelynne
    mychellelynne Posts: 122 Member
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    12/27/1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,775 Member
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    June 1962 - Midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Catlady87
    Catlady87 Posts: 302 Member
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    1987

    Terry Waite kidnapped in Iran
    The great storm hit the UK in October (think this is the one where Michael Fish categorically denied there would be a hurricane) I never knew 23 people died!!
    Zeebrugge ferry disaster
    Black Monday

    On the whole not a very happy year!

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