What happened in the year you were born?

93?

The last decade of the 20th century began

•Doctors performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart designed by Robert Jarvik
Severe recession begins in the United States.
• The world's largest oil rig ( The Ocean Ranger ) sinks in the north Atlantic
•First CD player sold in Japan
•The Weather Channel airs on cable television for the first time.
•The Soviet Spaceship Vanera 13 lands on Venus and sends back color Photographs
•Times man of The Year is THE COMPUTER
Scientist ( Scott Fahlman ) from Carnegie Mellon University first suggested the use of Smiley or emoticon as a way of expressing emotion in an email :-)

Popular films:
•E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
•Rocky III,
•Porky's
•An Officer and a Gentleman
•The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
•Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
•Poltergeist
•Annie
•Chariots of Fire
•Gandhi

Elvis died and Star Wars was released.

During the month/year that I was born there was a record breaking, catastrophic, historic blizzard.

Lunar landing.

August 6 – Pope Paul VI dies in Castel Gandolfo.
August 26 – Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.
September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
September 25
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
October 2
The New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox 5–4 at Fenway Park to clinch the AL East after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier. The Yankees would eventually go on to defeat the Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Dodgers and win the World Series.
October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523).
November 18 – Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.
December 13 – The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation.
Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men, is arrested.
Artificial insulin is invented.
David Rorvik claims he has participated in a creation of a human clone in his book In His Image.
Abortion is legalized in Italy for the first time.
In Seoul, Korea, construction begins on Seoul Subway Line 2.
Ford initiates a recall for the Pinto because of a public outcry resulting from deaths associated with gas tank explosions
June 12 – Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 365 years in prison.
April 10 – Volkswagen becomes the second (after Rolls-Royce) non-American automobile manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North American version of the Volkswagen Golf, at the Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, Pennsylvania with a unionized (UAW) workforce (the plant closes in 1992.)
May 26 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida.
January 14 – January 15 – The body of former U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, following his death from cancer.
The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.




Whoa... mine was the year of the serial killers I guess!:noway:

Beverly Hills supper club fire

Elvis died

World Trade Center was completed

The last execution by beheading

I was born, my mom celebrated her 21st birthday 2 days later, in a hospital room...she has never let me forget it (as though it is somehow my fault?! :noway: )

The first Ford Mustang was made.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.

Watergate
Hurricane Agnes kills 117
First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) os introduced for $395
Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup
The Godfather is the top grossing film
Pink Floyd debuts "The Dark Side of the Moon" during a performance at London's Rainbow Theater
Munich Olympics Terror Attack

Andes Mountain Range / South America
16 survivors from plane crash survive and are rescued after practicing cannibalism

Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky to become the World Chess Champion in Reykjavik, Iceland
Last US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam
The last major epidemic of smallpox in Europe breaks out in Yugoslavia.
Bloody Friday 22 bombs explode in Belfast Ireland and 9 people are killed with a further 130 seriously injured.

Bloody Sunday14 unarmed Catholic protesters are gunned down by the British Army on bloody Sunday
The Equal Rights Amendment which provided for the legal equality of the sexes passed by the U.S. Senate on 22nd March
The worlds leaders agree to banning biological warfare
The Second Cod War between UK and Iceland
The Equal Rights Amendment which provided for the legal equality of the sexes passed by the U.S. Senate on 22nd March

Popular Films

The Godfather
Fiddler on the Roof
Diamonds Are Forever
What's Up, Doc?
Dirty Harry
The Last Picture Show
A Clockwork Orange
Cabaret

Popular Musicians and songs

ABBA
Roxy Music
The Eagles
John Lennon
Paul Simon
Simon and Garfunkel
Rod Stewart
Don Mclean with " American Pie "
Michael Jackson with " Ben "
Elton John
The Moody Blues
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin

Popular TV Programmes

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Sesame Street
The Benny Hill Show
The Brady Bunch
Dad's Army
Hawaii Five-O
Here's Lucy