What happened in the year you were born?
BrainyBurro
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for me,
the Cardinals won the WS and the Packers won the SB.
Jack Nicklaus won the US Open.
USC won the NCAA football championship and UCLA won the NCAA basketball championship.
Time magazine's MOTY was LBJ.
the first handheld calculator was invented.
Rolling Stone was a brand new magazine.
the world's first heart transplant was performed.
A Man for All Seasons won the Oscar for best film.
The Andy Griffith Show was #1 on TV.
The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Turtles, The Doors, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and The Supremes were just some of the bands that had #1 hits that year.
Israel wins the Six Day War.
pulsars were discovered. quarks were discovered.
Hans Bethe won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Spencer Tracy died.
the year was 1967.
what events defined the year you were born?
the Cardinals won the WS and the Packers won the SB.
Jack Nicklaus won the US Open.
USC won the NCAA football championship and UCLA won the NCAA basketball championship.
Time magazine's MOTY was LBJ.
the first handheld calculator was invented.
Rolling Stone was a brand new magazine.
the world's first heart transplant was performed.
A Man for All Seasons won the Oscar for best film.
The Andy Griffith Show was #1 on TV.
The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Turtles, The Doors, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and The Supremes were just some of the bands that had #1 hits that year.
Israel wins the Six Day War.
pulsars were discovered. quarks were discovered.
Hans Bethe won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Spencer Tracy died.
the year was 1967.
what events defined the year you were born?
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I was born. That was awesome enough.0
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I was born. That was awesome enough.
only one smartass is allowed per thread. it's in the site TOS.0 -
Some people walked on the moon. It was my idea and everything.0
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•YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
•Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during the trial for murdering his girlfriend
•Pink Floyd release the multi award winning concept album "The Wall" with the top selling single "Another Brick in the Wall"
•The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
•The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
Popular Films
•Superman The Movie
•Every Which Way But Loose
•Rocky II
•Alien
•The Amityville Horror
•Star Trek: The Motion Picture
•Moonraker
•The Muppet Movie
•The Deer Hunter
•Kramer vs. Kramer0 -
•YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
•Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during the trial for murdering his girlfriend
•Pink Floyd release the multi award winning concept album "The Wall" with the top selling single "Another Brick in the Wall"
•The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
•The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
Popular Films
•Superman The Movie
•Every Which Way But Loose
•Rocky II
•Alien
•The Amityville Horror
•Star Trek: The Motion Picture
•Moonraker
•The Muppet Movie
•The Deer Hunter
•Kramer vs. Kramer
without googling, i'm saying 1979?0 -
•YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
•Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during the trial for murdering his girlfriend
•Pink Floyd release the multi award winning concept album "The Wall" with the top selling single "Another Brick in the Wall"
•The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
•The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
Popular Films
•Superman The Movie
•Every Which Way But Loose
•Rocky II
•Alien
•The Amityville Horror
•Star Trek: The Motion Picture
•Moonraker
•The Muppet Movie
•The Deer Hunter
•Kramer vs. Kramer
without googling, i'm saying 1979?
good job0 -
•YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
•Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during the trial for murdering his girlfriend
•Pink Floyd release the multi award winning concept album "The Wall" with the top selling single "Another Brick in the Wall"
•The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
•The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
Popular Films
•Superman The Movie
•Every Which Way But Loose
•Rocky II
•Alien
•The Amityville Horror
•Star Trek: The Motion Picture
•Moonraker
•The Muppet Movie
•The Deer Hunter
•Kramer vs. Kramer
without googling, i'm saying 1979?
good job
i was pretty sure Star Trek I was released in 1979. i saw it in the theater.
also, the O's made the WS that year, but broke my heart by losing to that team from pittsburgh after leading the series 3 games to 1. i can still remember Eddie Murray's long and high fly ball late in game 7 that for a fleeting moment seemed like it just might get out of the park...
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1981 Syria Warns Israel 23rd May 1981 : Syria has warned Israel that if it attacks Syria or Lebanon it will attack in the heart of Israel and was prepared to go to war to protect it's country, and could lead to a full scale middle east war.
MTV was launched in August of 1981. Remember when it was only music television? Those were the days. MTV should have stayed in the ’80s.
The first recognized cases of AIDS were found in Los Angeles.
Also in Los Angeles, four people in the Wonderland Gang, the infamous drug ring located mostly at Wonderland Drive in Laurel Canyon, were murdered.
Ronald Reagan, a Californian, becomes president.
That same year, Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded.
But later he nominates Judge Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman on US Supreme Court.
Lady Di marries Prince Charles. It is still the most talked about wedding in the last 30-something years.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is the top grossing film raking in about $209,562,121.
It’s a good year for medical progress. The first combined heart-lung transplant is performed and the first American test-tube baby is born.
The Oakland Raiders are first wild card playoff team to ever win a Super Bowl.
Bob Marley and Natalie Wood die. Pop John Paul almost dies after getting shot.
Artificial sweetener, aspartame, is approved by the FDA. It just goes to show that it’s true that liberal use of white powder in the ’80s is what led to the downfall of humanity.
Out of the crap economy, all sorts of “new” musical styles like hip-hop, new wave, and independent punk rock started to develop. Some choice artists popular that year include Depeche Mode, New Order, Prince, Sugar Hill, and Blondie.
Speaking of music, remember when Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a dove at that press thing?
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*Jan 2nd - Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship
*Jan 10th - Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
*Mar 6th - Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
*Mar 20th - Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres
*Aug 11th - Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olym track golds
*Sep 20th - Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time
*Sep 29th - "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1
*Oct 2nd - Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
*Oct 24th - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
*Nov 2nd - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
*Nov 17th - Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
*Dec 17th - NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
*Dec 19th - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
*Dec 22nd - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
Also, I was born, but oddly enough that didn't make any headlines.0 -
Congress voted to repeal having gold standard to back currency (huge mistake which led to wild printing and spending)
MLK was assassinated as was JFK
TET offensive
Chicago riots
The pill was banned by Catholics
The civil rights act was passed
North Korea seized the USS Pueblo
Madison Square Garden opened
The Pack beat da Raiders
Manchester City won the first division
Denny McLain won 30 games for the Tigers
Detroit beat the Cards 4 to 3
UCLA beat UNC in hoops
Pakistan won the gold medal for field hockey in Mexico City
Lee Trevino won the US Open
Billy Casper was the PGA money leader with $206K
Canadiens swept the Blues
Cale Yarborough won the Indy 500
First heart transplant in Paris
The musical Hair opens
The Beatles announce the opening of Apple records0 -
1984---how could anyone forget the year of your birth...Of course it was greatly overshadowed by Madonna but hey what can you do.0
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MLK was assassinated as was JFK
you mean RFK.0 -
Just a couple of the items that happened in April 1954 :-)
1st - 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1st - 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC
1st - Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1st - US Air Force Academy forms
2nd - Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced [see Jan 26] (Woot this is my actual biirthday)
4th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
5th - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
6th - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
6th - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
7th - German government refuses to recognize DDR
7th - Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
11th - Marlene Bauer wins LPGA New Orleans Golf Open
12th - 18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289
12th - Belgian Van Houtte government resigns
12th - Bill Haley & Comets records "Rock Around Clock"
12th - Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
13th - Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
13th - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
14th - Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
18th - Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
18th - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
19th - 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
19th - 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
21st - Gregori Malenkov becomes premier of USSR
21st - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam
22nd - Achiel van Acker forms Belgian government
22nd - Senate Army-McCarthy televised hearings began
22nd - USSR joins UNESCO
23rd - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers
24th - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
24th - Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
25th - Bell labs announces 1st solar battery (NYC)
25th - British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested)
25th - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island atmospher
26th - Far Eastern Affairs conference opens in Geneva
26th - Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins0 -
Donny & Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC
Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys
Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria
1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students
Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs found Apple Computer
Barbara Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
Muhammad Ali beats Jimmy Young in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run
Latenitelucy is born
Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
"Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
In Film:
Rocky
A Star is Born
Carrie
Taxi Driver
The Omen
King Kong
All the President's Men
The Bad News Bears
The Outlaw Josey Wales
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Commodore 64 released- start of an era.
Sony releases first cd player
Thriller album released
Eye of the tiger released
Falklands war
Prince William born
1982. I think the first two are pretty important, they changed the face of technology, although neither of my kids are going to know what either of them are. But they know the songs on my list
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I just looked it up....
I'm the same age as the Volkswagen Golf
....and "the wheel of fortune" (TV show)
....and Microsoft
....and the first ever Asian basketball league
....and Iron Maiden
two guys got sentenced over some Watergate thing in the USA
43 people got killed in a crash in the Tube (London Underground train service)
Aston Villa won the FA cup
Charlie Chaplain got a knighthood
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew, who was later beheaded, and King Faisal was succeeded by King Khalid
Francois Tombalbaye, President of Chad, was overthrown by a coup d'etat
The Cambodian civil war ended, after horrible events including genocide
The Vietnam war ended after communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to climb Mount Everest.
Mosambique gains independence from Portugal
Cape Verde gains independence from Portugal
Sao Tome and Principe declare independence from Portugal
Robert E Lee gets his American citizenship posthumously restored
the Birmingham Six are wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK
the Bangladeshi president is killed in a coup d'etat
nasty earthquake in Turkey, thousands dead
Vasco Goncalves is ousted as president of Portugal
Spaghetti house siege happens in Knightsbridge, London
Muhammad Ali beat Joe Frazier
Someone blew up a tube station in London.
Angola becomes independent from Portugal
Beginning of the 3rd Cod War between Britain and Iceland
The IRA are outlawed in the UK
Portuguese Timor becomes independent of Portugal and names itself East Timor instead
Indonesia invades East Timor, so Portugal refuses to talk to Indonesia any more.
Victoria (state of Australia) abandons capital punishment
South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality
Some Jehovah's witnesses decided that the world was going to end, and some of them even sold their homes and businesses to prepare for Armageddon
ON MY ACTUAL BIRTHDAY:
Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia!! YAY I share a birthday with the independent state of Papua New Guinea!! *happy dance*0 -
1985
On August 31, Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, was captured in Los Angeles.0 -
What I can recall is that Bangla Desh got freedom and emerged as new country !!0
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Three North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack the US Destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin US Congress Authorizes war against North Vietnam. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo is captured
Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy concludes Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone
The first Ford Mustang from Ford Motor Company is made.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize
"Hello Dolly," "Funny Girl," and "Fiddler on the Roof" premier on Broadway in New York.
The Rolling Stones release debut album, "The Rolling Stones"
The Beatles make their first appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Hasbro launch G.I. Joe an action figure for boys to join the Barbie Doll For Girls.
Buffalo Wings ( deep fried chicken wings coated with hot sauce ) are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published written by Roald Dahl
Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the first time
Flipper, Peyton Place, The Man From Uncle, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched and the Addams Family first aired
Popular Films
The Carpetbaggers
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
My Fair Lady
Mary Poppins
Sony introduces the first VCR Home Video Recorder
IBM announces the System/360.
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Computer Mouse USA by Douglas Engelbart
Bubble Wrap USA by Marc A Chavannes0 -
My nappy needed changing, in preparation America began withdrawing from Vietnam.0
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I really don't remember. I was quite young at the time....0
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Congress voted to repeal having gold standard to back currency (huge mistake which led to wild printing and spending)
MLK was assassinated as was JFK
TET offensive
Chicago riots
The pill was banned by Catholics
The civil rights act was passed
North Korea seized the USS Pueblo
Madison Square Garden opened
The Pack beat da Raiders
Manchester City won the first division
Denny McLain won 30 games for the Tigers
Detroit beat the Cards 4 to 3
UCLA beat UNC in hoops
Pakistan won the gold medal for field hockey in Mexico City
Lee Trevino won the US Open
Billy Casper was the PGA money leader with $206K
Canadiens swept the Blues
Cale Yarborough won the Indy 500
First heart transplant in Paris
The musical Hair opens
The Beatles announce the opening of Apple records
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•YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
•Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during the trial for murdering his girlfriend
•Pink Floyd release the multi award winning concept album "The Wall" with the top selling single "Another Brick in the Wall"
•The General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit is Launched
•The First modern Bungee Jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
Popular Films
•Superman The Movie
•Every Which Way But Loose
•Rocky II
•Alien
•The Amityville Horror
•Star Trek: The Motion Picture
•Moonraker
•The Muppet Movie
•The Deer Hunter
•Kramer vs. Kramer
without googling, i'm saying 1979?
good job
You cannot be 33. No way.0 -
let's see
*There was a big blizzard in Ohio and the great lakes
*Air India flight 855 crashed
*It was a year for serial killers? Ted Bundy was captured, Richard Chase and John Wayne Gacy were arrested and David Berkowitz was sentenced
*2 Popes died
*First test tube baby was born (no it's not me)
*Yankees won the world series
*FIFA in Argentina
*Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.
*Charles Chaplin's coffin is stolen and then found some 15 km from the cemetery from which it was taken
*American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed
*Garfield comic strip makes it's debut
*Artificial insulin is invented
*Born Ashton Kutcher, Jensen Ackles, Chad Ocho Cinco,Tim Hasselbeck, James Franco,Scott Raynor, Kurt Bush, Kobe Bryant, Tim McIlrath,Shaun Morgan,
*Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!
*Van Halen - Van Halen
*Rush - Hemispheres
*AC/DC - Powerage
*AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
*Judas Priest - Stained Class0 -
Watergate...0
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World News
-War Escalates in Vietnam
-First Commercial Satellite launched
-Wally Shirra and Thomas Stafford aboard Gemini VIII perform the first docking of two spacecraft.
-Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov performs the first spacewalk (Mar. 18).
National News
-Demonstrators organize a march from Selma to Birmingham to promote voting rights.
-Five days of riots broke out on August 11, 1965 in Watts - Los Angeles, California.
-President Johnson announces War on Poverty
-Edward White II becomes the first American to walk in space (June 3).
Music Favorites
1."The Sound of Silence" ... Simon and Garfunkel
2."We Can Work It Out" ... The Beatles
3."My Love" ... Petula Clark
4."Lightnin' Strikes" ... Lou Christie
5."These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" ... Nancy Sinatra
6."The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sgt. Barry Sadler
7."Soul and Inspiration" ... The Righteous Brothers
8."Good Lovin'" ... The Young Rascals
9."Monday, Monday" ... The Mamas and the Papas
10."When a Man Loves a Woman" ... Percy Sledge
TV Favorites
1. Bonanza (NBC)
2. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
3. The Lucy Show (CBS)
4. The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
5. Batman (Thur.) (ABC)
6. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
7. Bewitched (ABC)
8. The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
9. Hogan's Heroes (CBS)
10. Batman (Wed.) (ABC)
Movies
1. Thunderball
2. Doctor Zhivago
3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4. That Darn Cat
5. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
6. Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN
7. The Silencers
8. Torn Curtain
9. Our Man Flint
10. A Patch of Blue
Jeez, I'm getting up there in years, LOL....19650 -
JFK was shot
Chevrolet introduced the Corvette Stingray0 -
Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio.
The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.
The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
U.S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test (Castle Bravo) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
In Vietnam, the Viet Minh capture the main airstrip of Dien Bien Phu. The remaining French Army units there are partially isolated.
RCA manufactures the first color TV set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000)
Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around The Clock" thus starting the Rock and Roll craze.
Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four minute mile, in Oxford, England.
The Boeing 707 is released after about two years of development.
Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England.[2]
The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published in the United States.
The Miss America Pageant is broadcast on television for the first time.
The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is commissioned into the U.S. Navy.
Texas Instruments announces the development of the first commercial transistor radio. The Regency TR-1 goes on sale the following month.
The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida.
The TV dinner is introduced by the American entrepreneur Gerry Thomas.0 -
Munich Olympics Terrorist Attack
Watergate Scandal started
J. Edgar Hoover died
Dolphins won Superbowl
Brady Bunch & Hawaii-Five O were popular TV shows
The Godfather movie premiered
Gas was .55 cents!!
Ben Affleck & Gwyneth Paltrow were born
I was born!! 1972! :bigsmile:0 -
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