What Happened The Year You Were Born?

Published on November 4, 2004 By chiprj In Blogging

Been surfing around and found this. Neat stuff. So, what happened the year you were born?

In 1970 (the year you were born)

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

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

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Comments (Page 2)

chiprj

on Nov 04, 2004

In 1987 (the year you were born) Oh my gawd.....it goes from bad to worse......

I know!

Phoenixboi

on Nov 04, 2004

Oh honey..in gay years you both should be on the Old age Pension... and Im not that far behind!

chiprj

on Nov 04, 2004

Oh honey..in gay years you both should be on the Old age Pension... and Im not that far behind!

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Let's all get matching rocking chairs and sit on the porch and share stories about when we were their age!

BlueDev

on Nov 04, 2004

Add me to the 1976 ers. Won't post it, but that is me.

chiprj

on Nov 04, 2004

Add me to the 1976 ers. Won't post it, but that is me.

You're a 76er? I thought you were from Utah, not Philly... OK, that was lame, but sometimes I can't stop the inner lame guy...

Phoenixboi

on Nov 04, 2004

Let's all get matching rocking chairs and sit on the porch and share stories about when we were their age!

Geez... Chip... i can imagine us sitting there knitting needles in hand ...

.... I gotta lotta years left in me yet! .. BTW...when are we playing basketball???

chiprj

on Nov 04, 2004

Geez... Chip... i can imagine us sitting there knitting needles in hand ... .... I gotta lotta years left in me yet!

HAHAHA!!! dharma can teach us to knit beanies!

BTW...when are we playing basketball???

Season has started. Check your team!

SSG Geezer

on Nov 04, 2004

1961 was an interesting one.
MAJOR EVENTS:

* Outgoing President Eisenhower issues warning of a "military industrial complex" developing in America
* President Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
* Cuban exiles fail in their bid to invade Cuba through the Bay of Pigs; President Kennedy accepts responsibility
* Soviets build wall dividing East and West Berlin
* Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann tried in Israel, found guilty
* "Freedom Riders" travel throughout the South to test and promote integration measures; many are assaulted and beaten
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

* Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space during a single-orbit flight
* Commander Alan Shephard Jr. becomes first American in space in a suborbital flight aboard Mercury 3; Virgil Grissom follows in similar fashion two months later
* Soviet space probe Venera 1 becomes the first man-made vehicle to reach another planet when it arrives at Venus
* First lasers developed
* Anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey discover Homo habilis in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania

SPORTS:

* World Series: New York Yankees over Cincinnati, 4-1
* Ty Cobb dies
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:

* Movies: West Side Story, The Hustler, Judgment at Nuremburg
* Songs: Moon River, Where the Boys Are, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Blue Moon, The Lion Sleeps Tonight
* TV Shows: Bullwinkle, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Hazel, Dick Van Dyke Show, Top Cat
* Books: Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins; The Making of the President: 1960, Theodore White; The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone; The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck
* Henry Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer published legally in the U.S. for the first time
* Ernest Hemmingway dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
* Gary Cooper dies

EVERYDAY LIFE:

* Electric toothbrushes introduced
* "Frito" corn chips appear

FUN FACTS:

* "Barbie" gets a boyfriend when the "Ken" doll is introduced

chiprj

on Nov 04, 2004

1961 was an interesting one.MAJOR EVENTS:

There's a lot of info there! You must get more the further you go back...

Texas Wahine

on Nov 04, 2004

1979 for me, just like wuxiaomao . . .

SoundtrackGeek

on Nov 04, 2004

In 1987 (the year you were born)
Ronald Reagan is president of the US

Wall Street crashes sending the Dow Jones Industrial average down 22.6%

President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev sign an unprecedented missile reduction agreement

Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns amid accusations of sexual infidelity and financial impropriety

Wall Street financier Ivan Boesky is sentenced to three years in prison in an insider trading scandal

Gary Hart withdraws from the 1988 presidential campaign under accusations of infidelity

The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT

Prozac makes its debut in the US

Bow Wow, Joss Stone, and Hilary Duff are born

Minnesota Twins win the World Series

New York Giants win Superbowl XXI

Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup

Three Men and a Baby is the top grossing film

"Walk Like An Egyptian" by The Bangles spends the most time at the top of the US charts

Full House, Married with Children, and Star Trek: The Next Generation premiere

BlueDev

on Nov 04, 2004

You're a 76er? I thought you were from Utah, not Philly... OK, that was lame, but sometimes I can't stop the inner lame guy...

GROAN! Bad joke, you get a wedgie.

chiprj

on Nov 04, 2004

1979 for me, just like wuxiaomao . . .

Another youngun'... but at least you got a part of the good decade!

Nimvaethor - In 1987 (the year you were born)

Wow! That's two from 87'!

You're a 76er? I thought you were from Utah, not Philly... OK, that was lame, but sometimes I can't stop the inner lame guy...GROAN! Bad joke, you get a wedgie

OUCH!!!

oleteach

on Nov 05, 2004

Ha! I am not even going to look. They don't keep records back that far!

shadesofgrey

on Nov 05, 2004

I'm a 1977 baby, and I don't think anyone has posted that yet, so here you go!

In 1977 (the year you were born)

Jimmy Carter becomes president of the US

Most of the 10,000 Vietnam War draft evaders are pardoned by President Carter

Singer Anita Bryant starts her "Save Our Children" crusade against gay rights

Elvis Presley dies in his Graceland bathroom

Congress creates a Department of Energy

Anwar Sadat flies to Jerusalem in a dramatic gesture of willingness to discuss peace

Orlando Bloom, Shakira, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Liv Tyler, and Ludacris are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Oakland Raiders win Superbowl XI

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Swedish music group ABBA passes The Beatles as having most records sold

Star Wars is the top grossing film

The Shining by Stephen King is published

"You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone spends the most time at the top of the US charts

Three's Company premieres

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