What happened in the year you were born?

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

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

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?


How's that for a good year?

Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.16 Movie Ticket $4.14
•Islamic Fundamentalists bomb World Trade Center
•Ferry in Haiti sinks - over 1000 die
•Federal Agents raid religious cult Waco, Texas on 28th February
•Apartment building collapses in Malaysia killing 48
•An anti-abortion activist murders a doctor outside an abortion clinic
•Harley Davidson Motorcycles are 90 years old
•Two former police officers are convicted of violating the civil rights of beaten motorist Rodney King
•Dyson sells the first bagless cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner
•The first cloning of a Human Embryo by 2 American Scientists.
•Police begin investigations of child abuse by Michael Jackson
•Bill Clinton President of the United States


Popular and new:
•Jurassic Park
•Mrs. Doubtfire
•Sleepless in Seattle
•Schindler's List
•Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Guess my year

1927?