Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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  • naford93
    naford93 Posts: 16 Member
    Dec 29th 1993 --Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
  • smlesan
    smlesan Posts: 63
    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 Jackson
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
    Dec 31st 1982 - I was born...
  • runner2runner
    runner2runner Posts: 1,937 Member
    Another important event in 1981.

    CNN's first broadcast takes place in Atlanta.
  • 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...
  • Woolified
    Woolified Posts: 65 Member
    Pac-Man is released :o)
  • annwyatt69
    annwyatt69 Posts: 727 Member
    Man walked on the moon when I was 6 months old.
  • nas061
    nas061 Posts: 256 Member
    When I was 1 month old Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
  • justicer68
    justicer68 Posts: 1,223
    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.
  • 4bigeasy
    4bigeasy Posts: 51 Member
    JKF was assassinated.
  • Aello11
    Aello11 Posts: 312 Member
    Oh hell I feel old now :wink:

    Patsy Cline died the day I was born
    JFK assassinated
  • gueritaz
    gueritaz Posts: 2 Member
    1972- Watergate....smh!
  • 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 .
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Here is one for your fantasy football fans...

    1983 - US Football League holds its 1st player draft
  • MSeel1984
    MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
    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!
  • liesevanlingen
    liesevanlingen Posts: 508 Member
    On my birthday in 1971-- Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
  • Spartan_Maker
    Spartan_Maker Posts: 683 Member
    First American combat troops were sent to Vietnam.
  • delonda1
    delonda1 Posts: 525 Member
    1991-

    George Bush declares war on Iraq
    Seinfeld debuts
    Rodney King beat by LA police
  • KentWhiteRabbit
    KentWhiteRabbit Posts: 92 Member
    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.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Tricky D.ick Nixon resigned the year I was born.
  • CW101
    CW101 Posts: 85 Member
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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...
  • 1986~ Challenger Explosion
  • LifeChanges42
    LifeChanges42 Posts: 636 Member
    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
    Pac man video game was released in Japan in 1980 :-)