Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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  • runner2runner
    runner2runner Posts: 1,937 Member
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    More historic events from 1981.

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

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

    John Lennon killed
    John Wayne Gacy executed
  • HyugasHeiress
    HyugasHeiress Posts: 26 Member
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    I was born in 1994 : the year when Justin Bieber was born and Kurt Cobain died. How ironic
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
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    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.
  • strongnotskinny121
    strongnotskinny121 Posts: 329 Member
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    Michael Jackson released Thriller, 1982.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
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    1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles

    Also, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin died that year, both at the age of 27.
  • tpittsley77
    tpittsley77 Posts: 607 Member
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    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.
  • TomTomato
    TomTomato Posts: 223
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    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!
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
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    First walk on the moon. go Neil!
  • rfsatar
    rfsatar Posts: 599 Member
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    1969 - man walked on the moon ...
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
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    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:
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
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    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
  • GFreg
    GFreg Posts: 404
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    July 25, 1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became first woman to walk in space
  • joel3736
    joel3736 Posts: 55 Member
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    WrestleMania IV :)
  • StaceyJ2008
    StaceyJ2008 Posts: 411 Member
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    1983- President Regan signs bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
  • CarmenSantiago
    CarmenSantiago Posts: 681 Member
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    President Kennedy was assassinated.
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
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    I was born in 1994 : the year when Justin Bieber was born and Kurt Cobain died. How ironic
    Ironic? I would say depressing. :frown:
  • marqcutie80
    marqcutie80 Posts: 68 Member
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    Mount St. Helens erupted a few months before I was born in 1980!
  • marqcutie80
    marqcutie80 Posts: 68 Member
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    ...and the USA men's hockey team won gold in the Olympics....miracle on ice 1980

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