Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
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    Tricky D.ick Nixon resigned the year I was born.
  • CW101
    CW101 Posts: 85 Member
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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."
  • knitwit0704
    knitwit0704 Posts: 376
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    On my exact birthday, July 4th, 1997, the US space probe Pathfinder landed on Ares Vallis, Mars.
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
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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.

    JM
  • Einahhh
    Einahhh Posts: 139
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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.
  • nesa0601
    nesa0601 Posts: 17
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    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.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
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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."

    I did not know that about the Deep Purple song.
    My brother used to shake the house with that song...
  • heathermnrd
    heathermnrd Posts: 73
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    1986~ Challenger Explosion
  • LifeChanges42
    LifeChanges42 Posts: 636 Member
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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.
  • StabR80
    StabR80 Posts: 320 Member
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    Pac man video game was released in Japan in 1980 :-)
  • bioc458
    bioc458 Posts: 8 Member
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    The Berlin Wall fell and the Exxon Valdez spilled millions of gallons of oil into the coastal waters of Alaska...

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