What happened the year you were born

[johnnie]

In 1964 (the year you were born)
Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US

After riots break out, Panama suspends relations with he US

Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion when Sonny Liston throws in the towel in the sixth round in Miami Near Anchorage, the strongest earthquake ever to strike North America kills 117

Worst soccer disaster in history occurs when rioting and panic kills over 300 in Liverpool

Hundreds of white college students work for civil rights in the south during "Freedom Summer"

South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison

Kemeny and Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language

Nicolas Cage, Jeff Bezos, Rob Lowe, Elle Macpherson, Courteney Cox Arquette, and Keanu Reeves are born

St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series

Cleveland Browns win the NFL championship

Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles released in the US, sparking Beatlemania

The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, breaking television ratings records

The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television

Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film

http://www.blogthings.com/yearborn.html

[proud patriot]

1. woodstock and man on the moon

:hi:

[Pirate Smile]

4. Hi, fellow 1969 baby.

:hi:

[ET Awful]

17. Ad me to the 1969 list :)

:hippie:

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. 1980

Jimmy Carter is president of the US

President Carter announces punitive measures and embargos against the USSR in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupts in a violent blast estimated to be 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th US president in a sweeping victory

US Representative Michael O. Myers is expelled from the House for his role in the Abscam scandal

Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer

Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix

Christina Ricci, Chelsea Clinton, Venus Williams, Jessica Simpson, Macaulay Culkin, and Jake Gyllenhaal are born

Philadelphia Phllies win the World Series

Pittsburgh Steelers win Superbowl XIV

New York Islanders win the Stanley Cup

The Empire Strikes Back is the top grossing film

"Lady" by Kenny Rogers spends the most time at the top of the US charts

U.S. viewers get caught up in the "Who Shot J.R.?" cliff hanger on the soap opera series, Dallas, which is solved on a November 21 episode, drawing a record numbers of viewers

[Skittles]

3. Sputnik

:D

[rawtribe]

5. Hawaii and Alaska

Became states.

[rucky]

6. four dead in o-hi-o n/t

[name not needed]

7. 1988

Ronald Reagan is president of the US

Federal grand juries return indictments against Gen. Manuel Noriega, ruler of Panama, charging him of running drug cartels

A missile, fired from the US Navy warship Vincennes destroys a commercial Iranian airliner killing all 290 on board

A Pan-am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland from a terrorist bomb

Controversial Arizona Governor Evan Mecham is removed from office for financial misdeed

Jimmy Swaggart is defrocked when his sexual liaisons with women other than his wife are revealed

The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet

Al-Qaida is established by Osama bin Laden

Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series

Washington Redskins win Superbowl XXII

Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup

Rain Man is the top grossing film

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking is published

"Faith" by George Michael spends the most time at the top of the US charts

[Devil Dog Dem]

8. Sorry I wasn't really paying attention. I was in a selfish phase that year

You know how self-absorbed babies are!

[nookiemonster]

9. 1969

the moon landing...

Woodstock, and associated that benefited the protest movement..

Of course, the number itself has great connotations. LOL }(

[Lex]

10. 1965 . . . Malcolm X is killed, Watts riots, I Dream of Jeannie premieres.

1965 . . .

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara calls for a nationwide network of bomb shelters

Former leader of the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, is shot and killed in New York City

To protest voting rights discrimination, civil rights demonstrators begin a march for Selma to Montgomery with federal troop protection

Voting Rights Act is signed into law

Riots by young blacks in the Watts area of Los Angeles begin, causing $200 million in damage

Hurricane Betsy claims 75 lives in southern Florida and Louisiana

United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address

The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film

The Beatles' Rubber Soul is released

"Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones is a top hit

The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing songs from their new album Help!

Sony introduces the Betamax, a home video tape recorder

Nearly all of NBC's programs are now broadcast in color

I Dream of Jeannie premieres

[Neoma]

11. Allot happend on my year..

In 1989 (the year you were born)
George H.W. Bush becomes president of the US

The largest oil spill in US history occurs after the Exxon Valdez strikes Blight Reef in Alaska's Prince William sound

In Liverpool, England a soccer stadium barrier collapses killing 94 people

Hurricane Hugo causes 71 deaths and $4.2 billion in damage

A massave earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay area minutes before the World Series between the Giants and A's

The Berlin Wall comes down, symbolically ending the Cold War

Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair

Ayatollah Khomeini places a three-million-US dollar bounty for the death of author Salman Rushdie

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer

Nintendo released its popular handheld video game player, Game Boy

Oakland Athletics win the World Series

San Francisco 49ers win Superbowl XXIII

Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup

Batman is the top grossing film

"Look Away" by Chicago spends the most time at the top of the US charts

Talk show host, Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken during a taping of his show, when a fight erupts on the set between guests

The Arsenio Hall Show and The Simpsons premiere

Dragonball Z premieres on Japanese television

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

12. In 1972, the year I was born:

Five men are apprehended by police in attempt to bug Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.'s Watergate complex—start of the Watergate scandal (June 17).

Time Inc. transmits HBO, the first pay cable network.

M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.

Movies: The Godfather, Deliverance, Cabaret, Sleuth, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Apollo XVII, the last manned moon landing to date, returns to Earth with 250 pounds of lunar samples.

Harry Truman died

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.08

[Eugene]

13. 1963

March on Washington
JFK's visit to Berlin
JFK assassination

[Athletic Grrl]

31. also in '63

Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique, launching a middle-class feminist movement

Michael Jordan, Quentin Tarantino, Conan O'Brien, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt are born

I can live with that.

[sportndandy]

14. 1966 - Beatles last concert - Candlestick Park

But I don't think it had anything to do with me.

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. Some good things, and some very bad things happened in '86...

In 1986 (the year you were born)

Ronald Reagan is president of the US

The US officially observes Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday for the first time

The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after lift off, killing 6 astronauts and a teacher

A major nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union

Japanese video game maker Nintendo introduces its games to America

US warplanes bomb Libyan headquarters in retaliation for terrorist attacks

The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station

IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer

Charlotte Church, The Olsen twins, and Lindsay Lohan are born

New York Mets win the World Series

Chicago Bears win Superbowl XX

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Top Gun is the top grossing film

"That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne & Friends spends the most time at the top of the US charts

ALF, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse premiere

[jus_the_facts]

16. ~*~1967~*~

In 1967 (the year you were born)
Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US

President Johnson and Soviet premiere Aleksei Kosygin agree not to let any crisis push them into wore

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice

The first home microwave is released by Amana

Dave Matthews, Kurt Cobain, Liz Phair, Vin Diesel, Julia Roberts, and Anna Nicole Smith are born

St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series

Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I

Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

Disney's The Jungle Book and The Graduate are the top grossing films

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published

Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"

For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published

The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking

[Frogtutor]

30. 1967 here, too! n/t

[mcscajun]

18. 1951 -- A Marvelous Exercise...

...some stuff I knew...some I had to look for:

UN headquarters opened in NYC
Nuclear testing began at the Nevada Test Site
The 22nd Amendment was ratified
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg go on trial and are convicted, sentenced to death.

The transistor is invented.

Movies: An American in Paris, The African Queen, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Alice in Wonderland, Scrooge (with Alistair Sim, the Gold Standard for the role)

Books: The Catcher in the Rye

Television:
Dragnet debuts on TV (had previously been a radio program)
First commercial color TV show broadcast
First coast-to-coast TV broadcast (President Truman)
I Love Lucy debuts.

Births/Deaths:
Phil Collins, Max Weinberg, Janis Ian born
Sinclair Lewis ("It Can't Happen Here"), Ludwig Wittenstein died

[yardwork]

19. 1960

Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US

Sit-ins begin after 4 black college students in North Carolina refuse to move from a deli counter when denied service

A U-2 reconnaissance plane belonging to the US is shot down in the Soviet Union

Hurricane "Donna" strikes the East Coast causing over 100 deaths in the US and the Antilles

John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard Nixon in the presidential race

Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight

Michael Stipe, Tony Robbins, Bono, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Jeffrey Dahmer are born

Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series

Philadelphia Eagles win the NFL championship

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is the top grossing film

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published

The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, Germany

The Flintstones debut

[Bertha Venation]

20. Kennedy assassinated 8 mos to the day after my birth.

Not much else to remember, really.

[johnnie]

22. Funny (not he he)

He was assassinated 9 months to the day before I was born.

[Bertha Venation]

27. Hmm...

there's something cosmic there. :hi:

[Deja Q]

21. Watergate, yippie!

1972

Richard Nixon is president of the US

President Nixon approves NASA's space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft, at a cost of $5.5 billion

Nixon arrives in China for an 8 day visit, which he calls a "journey for peace"

While campaigning for the presidency Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is shot and seriously wounded

Five men are arrested in the Watergate office complex in DC for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee

Hurricane Agnes strikes the East Coast causing 117 deaths

First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) os introduced for $395

Shaquille O'Neal, Jennifer Garner, The Rock, The Notorious B.I.G., Cameron Diaz, Eminem, and Alyssa Milano are born

Oakland Athletics win the World Series

Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl VI

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

"You've Got a Friend"by Carole King wins a Grammy for song of the year

The Price is Right premieres on CBS

[Radical Activist]

23. Elvis died

Carter was sworn in
Star Wars was the top movie
ABBA topped the Beatles for total albums sold
Vietnam Draft resisters were pardoned

[carnie_sf]

24. 1958

EU founded, Bobby Fischer wins US chess championship, Van Allen radiation belt discovered, Castro attacks Havana, Alaska becomes a state, NASA created, Ice-T, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and me born, The Kingston Trio released, New York Yankees win World Series, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof starring Liz Taylor, and Paul Newman released, the Donna Reed Show debuts, and George Burns and Gracie Allen go off the air.

[baba]

25. 1970

Richard Nixon is president of the US

A federal jury finds the "Chicago 7" innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

The lunar spacecraft Apollo 13 splashes down in the Pacific after near catastrophe

The first Earth Day is marked by millions of Americans participating in anti-pollution demonstrations

At Kent State University, National Guardsmen fire into a crowd killing four student antiwar demonstrators

A powerful earthquake claims 50,000 lives in Peru

18 year olds are given the right to vote in federal elections

Tidal wave driven by cyclone from Bay of Bengal hits East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands

An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland

Queen Latifah, Mariah Carey, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Lopez, and Matt Damon are born

Baltimore Orioles win the World Series

Kansas City Chiefs win Superbowl IV

Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

Tearjerker Love Story is the top grossing film

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is published

"The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last Number 1 song

[CarbonDate]

26. 1978

(I was expected something like, "Nothing happened in 1978. You suck.")

Jimmy Carter is president of the US

US Senate votes to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999

Israel and Egypt reach a peace settlement at the Camp David Accords

The US and mainland China announce that they will restore full diplomatic relations

Members of Jim Jones' People's Temple commit mass suicide in Guyana

Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope in centuries

Ted Bundy is captured in Florida

The first computer bulletin board system is created

Garfield debuts in newspapers

Ashton Kutcher, Kobe Bryant, Usher, Clay Aiken, and Nelly Furtado are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl XII

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Saturday Night Fever and Grease are the top grossing films

"Night Fever" by the Bee Gees spends the most time at the top of the US charts

Diff'rent Strokes and Mork & Mindy premiere

[yellowdogintexas]

28. 1948

Harry Truman elected president in major upset.

The Soviet blockade of Berlin's Allied sector begins

Alger Hiss is indicted if perjury after he denies passing secret documents to a Communist spy ring

Congress passes the Marshall Plan to help aid European countried rebuild

Israel declares its independence

Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel

Alice Cooper, Al Gore, and Prince Charles are born

Babe Ruth dies

Cleveland Indians win the World Series

Philadelphia Eagles win the NFL championship

Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup

Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time televis

[ldf]

29. the entire world

started going to hell in a handbasket.

just my luck to get here just in time.

:grr:

[RevolutionaryActs]

32. I looked 1976 for my bro and this came up it made me happy:

George W. Bush is arrested and fined for driving under the influence of alcohol.




WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[St. Jarvitude]

33. Boosh I was elected

Blech.

Blech blech blech.

:puke: