Which historic event occurred the year you were born?
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Dec 29th 1993 --Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment0
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1995 events:
1. OJ Simpson trial
2. Classic "Forest Gump" movie comes out
3. Microsoft released Windows 98
4. Truck Bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal Building killing 168 people
5. An unprecedented heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States Temperatures exceed 104°F in the afternoon for 5 straight days. At least 3000 people die, 750 in Chicago, Illinois alone.
6. DVDs are first introduced
Popular Films:
Toy Story
Batman Forever
Apollo 13
Pocahontas
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
GoldenEye
Casper
Jumanji
Die Hard With a Vengeance
Braveheart
Popular Musicians:
Supergrass
Deep Blue Something
Weezer
Smashing Pumpkins
Rage Against The Machine
Van Halen
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Madonna
Garth Brooks
Blues Traveler
Janet Jackson0 -
Dec 31st 1982 - I was born...0
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Another important event in 1981.
CNN's first broadcast takes place in Atlanta.0 -
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
Honestly, that's like every other year. Bad stuff always happens somewhere.
1988 looked dreadful....
Cliff Richard had a number 1 with "Mistletoe and Wine" on my birthday...That will haunt me for the rest of my life...0 -
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Pac-Man is released
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Man walked on the moon when I was 6 months old.0
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When I was 1 month old Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.0
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The day I was born:
1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude
The year I was born:
A Year to Remember
1968: A pivotal year in U.S. history that saw assertions of Black Power at the Olympic Games, the national launch of Pittsburgh-produced "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," stardom for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, the debut of locally made cult classic "Night of the Living Dead," and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The year began with the Tet Offensive, the deadliest period of an increasingly divisive Vietnam War, and ended with hope for the future, as the Apollo 8 capsule beamed back images of "Earthrise" from the far side of the moon for the first time.0 -
JKF was assassinated.0
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Oh hell I feel old now
Patsy Cline died the day I was born
JFK assassinated0 -
1972- Watergate....smh!0
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The Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire UK where I was born and still live and JFK was assassinated.
Both events I didn't actually know the year of so was interesting question for me to look up .0 -
Here is one for your fantasy football fans...
1983 - US Football League holds its 1st player draft0 -
I was born April 20th...
Two other bad things happened that same day.
1.) Adolf Hitler was born
2.) The Columbine Shooting.
That's the day I was born, not the year...
But, the first Macintosh personal computer was unveiled!0 -
On my birthday in 1971-- Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)0
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First American combat troops were sent to Vietnam.0
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1991-
George Bush declares war on Iraq
Seinfeld debuts
Rodney King beat by LA police0 -
1971 - I knew a few of these but others were surprising.
BBC Open University began
The Aswan dam officially opened in Egypt
Rolls Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised
Switzerland gives women voting rights
Decimalisation Day! UK and Ireland switch to decimal currency – I month after I was born
Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars
Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden.
Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub
Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.
British troops are stationed on the Ireland border to stop arms smuggling.
Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
Foundation of Greenpeace.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks 9 Indian airbases.
Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPAnet e-mail between host computers.0 -
Tricky D.ick Nixon resigned the year I was born.0
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1971
Cigarette advertising ended on television in USA
Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars in Ontario, California.
Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
Attica prison riots
Charles Manson and three ‘family members’ are found guilty of murder
Led Zeppelin releases their 4th studio album "Led Zeppelin IV"
D. B. Cooper – hijacks a plane with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history)
The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert. The event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water."0 -
On my exact birthday, July 4th, 1997, the US space probe Pathfinder landed on Ares Vallis, Mars.0
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World Trade Center completed.
Jimmy Carted Elected.
New York City blackout.
Concord enters regular service between NY and UK
Elvis died.
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On my birthday:
Sep 20th 1992 - Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
Also random 1992 stuff - the nation of Bosnia was established; the signing of the Maastricht treaty; an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 people in Turkey; Prince Charles and Princess Diana seperate.0 -
1985
The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the 5 Mafia families in New York City.
Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, blows up 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush served as Acting President for eight hours, while President Ronald W. Reagan underwent colon cancer surgery.
In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family. During the shootout Andrew Bearse was born in the middle of the street. His mother was hit by a stray bullet which forced her into early labor. He survived and currently resides in Detroit, Michigan.0 -
1971
Cigarette advertising ended on television in USA
Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars in Ontario, California.
Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
Attica prison riots
Charles Manson and three ‘family members’ are found guilty of murder
Led Zeppelin releases their 4th studio album "Led Zeppelin IV"
D. B. Cooper – hijacks a plane with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history)
The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert. The event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water."
I did not know that about the Deep Purple song.
My brother used to shake the house with that song...0 -
1986~ Challenger Explosion0
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First of all I was a bicentennial baby
Also, I was always curious why I have been a Mac lover since I can remember......tonight I found out why. Apple release the first Apple II computer... The fist serious home computer.0 -
Pac man video game was released in Japan in 1980 :-)0
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