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    Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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    • Posts: 1,937 Member
      More historic events from 1981.

      *US hostages in Iran released.
      *Ronald Reagan inaugurated as President
      *IBM introduces world's first PC.
    • Posts: 164 Member
      82

      The Commodore 64 was launched
      the firs emoticons were posted :happy:
      Walt Disney World opened!
    • Posts: 3,639 Member
      1980:

      John Lennon killed
      John Wayne Gacy executed
    • Posts: 26 Member
      I was born in 1994 : the year when Justin Bieber was born and Kurt Cobain died. How ironic
    • Posts: 2,916 Member
      Man landed on the Moon, and Woodstock...

      Yep! :drinker:

      My dad used to like to blame the fact that he didn't get to go to Woodstock on the fact that my mom was pregnant with me that summer. LOL.
    • Posts: 329 Member
      Michael Jackson released Thriller, 1982.
    • Posts: 3,669 Member
      1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles

      Also, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died that year, both at the age of 27.
    • Posts: 607 Member
      Um, Elvis died in 1977, does that count?

      Exactly what I was going to say!
      Also the world trade center was completed. And apple released the apple II computer.
    • Posts: 223
      Not the year I was born, but the year BEFORE I was born was the last time the Cleveland Browns won a championship! That is my frustration with being a Browns fan!
    • Posts: 22,834 Member
      First walk on the moon. go Neil!
    • Posts: 599 Member
      1969 - man walked on the moon ...
    • Posts: 2,916 Member
      I just googled it and wow, that's depressing.

      War, cyclones, earth quakes, plane crashes, assassinations, train disasters, serial killers, drought, floods, riots, terrorist attacks.

      It wasn't a good year. But on the plus side: I was born! Yay.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988

      That's also the year I graduated from high school. :noway:
      :wink:
    • Posts: 3,189 Member
      Movies:
      1. The Exorcist
      2. The Sting
      3. American Graffiti
      4. Papillon
      5. The Way We Were

      Music
      1. "You're So Vain" - Carly Simon
      2. "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
      3. "Killing Me Softly with His Song" - Roberta Flack
      4. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" - Jim Croce
      5. "We're an American Band" - Grand Funk
      6. Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is released

      Events:
      1. George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship.
      2. Watergate
      3. The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City
      4. The DEA is founded
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      July 25, 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space
    • Posts: 55 Member
      WrestleMania IV :)
    • Posts: 411 Member
      1983- President Regan signs bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
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      President Kennedy was assassinated.
    • Posts: 3,189 Member
      I was born in 1994 : the year when Justin Bieber was born and Kurt Cobain died. How ironic
      Ironic? I would say depressing. :frown:
    • Posts: 68 Member
      Mount St. Helens erupted a few months before I was born in 1980!
    • Posts: 68 Member
      ...and the USA men's hockey team won gold in the Olympics....miracle on ice 1980
    • Posts: 171 Member
      On the 5th of June 1967, the day I was born, a six day war broke out, with Israel fighting against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Not a great thing by any standards.
    • Posts: 9,883 Member
      1979:

      YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

      Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles

      Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US

      US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

      House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN

      Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars

      The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

      Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala

      Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel

      Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England

      Sony introduces the Walkman.

      Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman

      Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres

      Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education

      Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

      John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston

      Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president

      A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

      US's 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital

      US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange

      Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)

      And.... I was born :blushing:
    • Posts: 613 Member
      Earthquake in China killed 655,000
      Mao died
      Bicentennial of USA

      Closer to home for me: Montreal Olympics, CN Tower was completed

      1976
    • Posts: 2,082 Member
      1988 - Suspected Libyan terrorist bomb explodes on Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21st killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground
    • Posts: 1,992 Member
      The Cardinals won their first world series.
    • Posts: 1,956 Member
      I was born in 1972, so here are a few events that happened my birth year:

      Watergate
      Bloody Sunday
      Equal Rights Amendment passed
      Dow Jones closed over 1000 for the first time in history
    • Posts: 845 Member
      1973

      Vietnam War -- cease fire.
      Roe vs. Wade
      Watergate
      The Exorcist opened in theatres
      and the most important of all.....Monica Lewinsky was born. :sad:
    • Posts: 13 Member
      Hello everyone,
      I thought this was neat. January 1st 1985 the first mandatory seat belt law went into affect. 28 days before my birth!


      A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
      World population: 4,830,979,000
      The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
      Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
    • Posts: 129 Member
      1981 - MTV was born. Also, Charles and Diana were married.
    • Posts: 396 Member
      1964--
      Rolling Stones first headlining tour
      Plans for World Trade Center announced
      Peggy Fleming wins the US Figure Skating Championship--I did a report on her in High School!
      Civil rights Act passes
      First Ford Mustang produced! Formally introduced for the asking price of $2368
      As the World turns debuts on TV
      Weather satellite Nimbus launched
      Johnson beats Goldwater for President
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