Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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  • DalekBrittany
    DalekBrittany Posts: 1,748 Member
    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
    Another Woodstock and moon walk here - 1969
  • tobirhae
    tobirhae Posts: 108 Member
    Jonestown - 1978

    I was born on the exact day of the Jonestown mass suicide.
  • Cadori
    Cadori Posts: 4,810 Member
    December 1980. John Lennon died a few days before I was born.
  • sugboog29
    sugboog29 Posts: 630 Member
    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
    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
    The day I was born the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened
  • mychellelynne
    mychellelynne Posts: 122 Member
    12/27/1978 - Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    June 1962 - Midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Catlady87
    Catlady87 Posts: 302 Member
    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!
  • AmyMgetsfit
    AmyMgetsfit Posts: 636 Member
    Both McDonalds and Disneyland opened in 1955.
  • LauriePar
    LauriePar Posts: 257 Member
    Alaska became the 49th state
    Whamo introduced the Hula Hoop
    Gas cost .25 a gallon

    1958
  • toaster6
    toaster6 Posts: 703 Member
    http://www.infoplease.com/year/1989.html
    ^All that.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    The most interesting man in the world was born in 1985 :wink:
  • LibertyBelle89
    LibertyBelle89 Posts: 275
    1989 =)

    1) the hillsborough disaster
    2) 49er's won the superbowl
    3) dead poets society came out
    4) ted bundy was executed

    thats all i got lol :)
  • Barbsunshine
    Barbsunshine Posts: 398
    1961 - Kennedy was inaugurated
  • fivepence
    fivepence Posts: 33 Member
    The day I was born, 1st May 1994, Ayrton Senna died :(
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  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    in the year of my birth,

    a huge earthquake killed 655,000 Chinese. :ohwell:
    Nadia won three gold medals and seven perfect scores at the Olympics :bigsmile:
    the world's first ebola outbreak began in the Sudan :frown:
    Mao died :indifferent:
    US celebrates 200 years of independence :drinker:
    eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes died :frown:
    Fidel Castro becomes president of Cuba. :frown:
  • pteryndactyl
    pteryndactyl Posts: 303 Member
    Fall of the Berlin Wall?
  • tonytoo
    tonytoo Posts: 307
    England won the World Cup! :D
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 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
  • neacail
    neacail Posts: 228 Member
    There were a bunch . . . but on the day I was born, the USSR launched Prognoz 3 to study the sun.
  • MariAOK
    MariAOK Posts: 38
    Yep looks like there are a few of us with this year. Woodstock and first man on the moon - 1969
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 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

    Honestly, that's like every other year. Bad stuff always happens somewhere.
  • runner2runner
    runner2runner 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.
  • 19kat55
    19kat55 Posts: 336 Member
    1955, the year Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
  • eriktice
    eriktice Posts: 42 Member
    The day before I was born in 1973, Skylab was launched by NASA. (The first space station) On the day I was born, California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals 3-0 . I was born on May 15th. I wish I were born 1 day earlier. O well.

    eriktice
  • reztib
    reztib Posts: 151 Member
    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

    Good cultural calls on "Jaws" and "Saturday Night Live but most historic in our year was the Fall of Saigon.
  • Missjulesdid
    Missjulesdid Posts: 1,444 Member
    Watergate Break in
    Bloody Sunday (the Northern Ireland tragedy not the song)
    The Godfather

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