What happened in the year you were born?

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

Ditto

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 Class

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....1965

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.

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1987.html

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 Class

We're the same age! I turn 35 on Saturday.

•Grease
•Saturday Night Fever
•Close Encounters of the Third Kind
•National Lampoon's Animal House
•Jaws 2
•Heaven Can Wait
•Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
•Revenge of the Pink Panther
•The Deer Hunter

•Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallendas, dies after falling off a tight-rope

•Argentina Wins World Cup in Argentina

•Cardinal Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II
•The Cult leader Jim Jones instructed over 900 members of his church, "People's Temple", to commit suicide in Guyana

•Record company EMI sacks the controversial UK punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
•Star Wars opens in cinemas and filmgoers line up for hours to see it
•The TV Mini Series "Roots" is aired on ABC winning top audience figures, 9 Emmys and a Golden Globe
•Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released
•The Clash release their first album "The Clash "
•Perhaps most important in Popular Culture is the development of punk music. from groups like the Ramones, Iggy Pop's ,Clash, Elvis Costello, The Stranglers, and the Sex Pistols
•The King " Elvis Presley" Dies at the age of 42 from a heart attack August 16th


Suddenly I feel old. You darn kids!

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
Network

we were born the same year 1976 cool

Led Zeppelin released their first album
Nixon becomes Prez
Boeing 747
FLQ terrorist bombings in Montreal.
Moon landing
John Lennon marries Yoko Ono
Teenager dies of an unknown disease. Years later in 1984 it is confirmed as the first case of AIDS
Abbey Road
Charles Manson murders
Woodstock
The Gap
Homosexuality decriminalized in Canada
Sesame Street
Ontario Science Centre opens in Toronto
many many many vietnam war protests.

The poster above me was born.... and so was I, most likely in different hospitals from different moms