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What Happened in the Year You Were Born?
- Thread starter Borys
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1983.
M*A*S*H (TV series) ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on CBS. The series finale, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, becomes the highest rated episode in TV history.
Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan.
Microsoft Word is first released.
The Who disband for the first time.
Pink Floyd release their last album with Roger Waters.
M*A*S*H (TV series) ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on CBS. The series finale, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, becomes the highest rated episode in TV history.
Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system.
The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan.
Microsoft Word is first released.
The Who disband for the first time.
Pink Floyd release their last album with Roger Waters.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
my dad went out to buy cigarettes and...and..I hope we have him at home for Chrismas...
1989:
January 7 - Showa period ends with the death of Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Showa) after 62 years and 14 days of his reign in Japan. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan, beginning the Heisei period the following day.
January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
June 1 - The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto.
July 5 - The television show Seinfeld premieres.
August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.
August 24 - Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
November 9 - Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began tearing the wall down).
December 17 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on FOX.
Damn, what an awesome year.
January 7 - Showa period ends with the death of Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Showa) after 62 years and 14 days of his reign in Japan. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan, beginning the Heisei period the following day.
January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
June 1 - The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto.
July 5 - The television show Seinfeld premieres.
August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.
August 24 - Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
November 9 - Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began tearing the wall down).
December 17 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on FOX.
Damn, what an awesome year.
twinturbo2 said:1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985
NES is released in North America.
San Francisco wins the Super Bowl over the Dolphins, in what turns out to be Dan Marino's only Super Bowl appearance.
Kansas City wins the World Series.
GM founded Saturn (the car company, not the planet) this year, although they won't sell cars until 1992.
Commodore Amiga goes on sale.
Mike Tyson makes his professional boxing debut.
Route 66 is decomissioned.
Back to the Future hits theaters.
The Discovery Channel is launched
Howard Stern is fired from WNBC-AM.
Windows 1.0 is released.
The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable go on sale.
ATI Technologies is founded.
Calvin and Hobbes debuts.
I win this thread.
Hell Yeah!
Kaiser Dämmerung
Member
1980 - Lennon got shot.
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On the bright side, I found out I share my birthday with Christopher fucking Walken!
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On the bright side, I found out I share my birthday with Christopher fucking Walken!
UltraMarioMan
Member
1980
January 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
January 6 - GPS time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by the Mafia.
January 7 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
January 27 - Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland, thus ending the Canadian caper operation. Wow
March 1 - The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
March 8 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
March 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
April 30 - Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist survives.
May 4 - Yugoslav President Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
June 3 - U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination.
June 27 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill requiring 19- and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
July 16 - Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
August 14 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter defeats Senator Edward Kennedy to win renomination, at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City.
September 22 - The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran-Iraq War.
September 30 - Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
October 28 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan debate in Cleveland, Ohio. Reagan's genial, witty performance causes him to overtake Carter in the polls.
November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
November 21 - Millions of viewers tune into the U.S. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing. The "Who shot J.R.?" event is a national obsession.
December 8 - Former Beatle John Lennon dies in hospital after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had received his signature earlier in the day.
December 18 - I was born, Chuck Norris learns of fear.
January 4 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
January 6 - GPS time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is assassinated by the Mafia.
January 7 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
January 27 - Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland, thus ending the Canadian caper operation. Wow
March 1 - The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
March 8 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
March 21 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
April 7 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
April 30 - Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist survives.
May 4 - Yugoslav President Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
May 7 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
June 3 - U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination.
June 27 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill requiring 19- and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
July 16 - Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
August 14 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter defeats Senator Edward Kennedy to win renomination, at the 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York City.
September 22 - The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran-Iraq War.
September 30 - Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
October 28 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan debate in Cleveland, Ohio. Reagan's genial, witty performance causes him to overtake Carter in the polls.
November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
November 21 - Millions of viewers tune into the U.S. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing. The "Who shot J.R.?" event is a national obsession.
December 8 - Former Beatle John Lennon dies in hospital after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had received his signature earlier in the day.
December 18 - I was born, Chuck Norris learns of fear.
February 18 - The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
March 4 - The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
March 5 - Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
April 1- Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.
April 25 - Bart Simpson's birthday. (Which means if Bart had aged normally, he'd be older than me by a few months.)
July 12 - A "Disco Demolition Night" publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers. (The death of Disco?)
August 9 - The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.
September 1 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
December 3 - Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (now known as the U.S. Bank Arena) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 6 (The day I was originally supposed to be born.) - The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
December 21 (My Birthday) - A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London. (Boring)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979
March 4 - The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
March 5 - Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
April 1- Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.
April 25 - Bart Simpson's birthday. (Which means if Bart had aged normally, he'd be older than me by a few months.)
July 12 - A "Disco Demolition Night" publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers. (The death of Disco?)
August 9 - The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.
September 1 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
December 3 - Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (now known as the U.S. Bank Arena) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 6 (The day I was originally supposed to be born.) - The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
December 21 (My Birthday) - A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London. (Boring)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979
ConfusingJazz
Member
Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party in Airstrip One, started to question the society of Oceania and the idea of Big Brother.
TheQueen'sOwn
insert blank space here
1987 was a good year .
.Anasui Kishibe
Banned
Windu said:
that doesn't mean much. His birthday could be Jan 1
The Elite
BOSS
1978!!
January 1 - Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near Bombay, killing 213.
February 1 - Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
February 15 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida.
February 16 - The first computer bulletin board system (CBBS) is created in Chicago.
March 3 - The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.
March 6 - American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
May 17 - Charles Chaplin's coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
August 6 - Pope Paul VI dies at age 80.
August 26 - Pope John Paul I (Albino Cardinal Luciani) succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd pope.
September 28 - Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
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.
ctober 16 - Pope John Paul II (Cardinal Karol Wojtyła) succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope. He is the first Polish pope in history.
January 1 - Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near Bombay, killing 213.
February 1 - Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
February 15 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida.
February 16 - The first computer bulletin board system (CBBS) is created in Chicago.
March 3 - The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.
March 6 - American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
May 17 - Charles Chaplin's coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
August 6 - Pope Paul VI dies at age 80.
August 26 - Pope John Paul I (Albino Cardinal Luciani) succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd pope.
September 28 - Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
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.
ctober 16 - Pope John Paul II (Cardinal Karol Wojtyła) succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope. He is the first Polish pope in history.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
1977!
April - The Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners each play their first-ever games of baseball.
May 1 - Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul: 34 dead, hundreds injured
May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.
June5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
July 24 - Led Zeppelin play their last U.S. concert in Oakland, CA at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and promoter Bill Graham's staff resulting in criminal assault charges for several of Led Zeppelin's entourage including drummer John Bonham.
July 26 - Robert Plant is contacted by his wife and told their son Karac has died, which causes the cancellation of the remainder of Zeppelin's U.S. tour and the band would not re-emerge until 1979.
August 8 - Blackace was born in Seattle
August 16 - Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack excaberated by drug use.
September 3 - The Commodore PET computer is first sold.
September 28 - The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention.
October 18 - Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to World Series victory.
April - The Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners each play their first-ever games of baseball.
May 1 - Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul: 34 dead, hundreds injured
May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.
June5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
July 24 - Led Zeppelin play their last U.S. concert in Oakland, CA at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and promoter Bill Graham's staff resulting in criminal assault charges for several of Led Zeppelin's entourage including drummer John Bonham.
July 26 - Robert Plant is contacted by his wife and told their son Karac has died, which causes the cancellation of the remainder of Zeppelin's U.S. tour and the band would not re-emerge until 1979.
August 8 - Blackace was born in Seattle
August 16 - Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack excaberated by drug use.
September 3 - The Commodore PET computer is first sold.
September 28 - The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Auto Convention.
October 18 - Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to World Series victory.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
You forgot that Pac-Man was released this year.UltraMarioMan said:
siamesedreamer
Banned
Blackace said:
You forgot gas lines and high inflation rates.
MisterAnderson
Member
pCeSlAyEr said:
Read the title of the thread one more time
Edit: Beaten by a mile
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Blackace said:
I'm older than Blackace*?!
Son of a bitch! >:|
* but not terribly so. . .
DOOOOOM!
January 1 Sweden adopts constitution <= Hooray for Kiriku!
January 2 U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species <= Did Blackace inherit his hateful habit from his father?!
January 5 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks
January 5 Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in New York City
January 6 "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV
January 7 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
January 18 "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
February 1 Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
February 6 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
February 20 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
February 26 1st televised kidney transplant on the Today Show
February 28 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop
March 10 "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances
March 11 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
Needless to say, I do not miss the Cold War.
disappeared
Banned
twinturbo2 said:1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985
NES is released in North America.
San Francisco wins the Super Bowl over the Dolphins, in what turns out to be Dan Marino's only Super Bowl appearance.
Kansas City wins the World Series.
GM founded Saturn (the car company, not the planet) this year, although they won't sell cars until 1992.
Commodore Amiga goes on sale.
Mike Tyson makes his professional boxing debut.
Route 66 is decomissioned.
Back to the Future hits theaters.
The Discovery Channel is launched
Howard Stern is fired from WNBC-AM.
Windows 1.0 is released.
The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable go on sale.
ATI Technologies is founded.
Calvin and Hobbes debuts.
I win this thread.
Being 22 has never been so cool.
dreadfulwater
aka morbidesque
Onix said:
:BEATEN:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967
damn, loads of shit happened in 1967, but amazingly, my Birthday was uneventful
December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.
cool
Highlights, oh and thanks for reminding me that I'm old. God, what a shitty year overall that was. The Beatles end it, Joplin and Hendrix both die and Nixon is in office.
January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles
February 13 - Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath (album) released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
February 17 - MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.
March 21 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his new solo album.
May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
June 10 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
June 22 - The English rock band Led Zeppelin performs in Iceland, with the visit inspiring them to write the Immigrant Song.
August 26-August 30 - The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a barbiturate overdose in London.
October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose inside her hotel room in Los Angeles, California.
October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
November 9 - Charles de Gaulle dies; he is buried November 13.
I share a birthday with Kevin Weisman, an actor I have never heard of.
January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles
February 13 - Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath (album) released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
February 17 - MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.
March 21 - The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
April 1 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, while at the same press conference, announcing the release of his new solo album.
May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
June 10 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
June 22 - The English rock band Led Zeppelin performs in Iceland, with the visit inspiring them to write the Immigrant Song.
August 26-August 30 - The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
September 18 - Jimi Hendrix dies from choking on his own vomit while unconscious due to a barbiturate overdose in London.
October 4 - Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose inside her hotel room in Los Angeles, California.
October 5 - The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
November 9 - Charles de Gaulle dies; he is buried November 13.
I share a birthday with Kevin Weisman, an actor I have never heard of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008
Jokes, anyway
-Fox Broadcasting is the first network to permit condom advertising on television.
-The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague
-Cold War ends?
-Collapse of the Soviet Union
-I was born (most important event in history )
-Sega Game Gear
-Commodore Amiga CDTV
-Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
-FM Towns Marty
-Philips CD-i
- American Video Entertainment files a US$105 million lawsuit against Nintendo, accusing the company of violation of anti-trust laws, by trying to prevent compatible game cartridges into the marketplace. American Video Entertainment had developed technology to allow their game cartridges to be played on Nintendo machines.
-Super Mario World
-F-Zero
-SimCity
-Tecmo Super Bowl
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
-Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
-Final Fantasy 4 (2 in NA)
-Super Castlevania IV
-Street Fighter II
One of the best years in VG
Jokes, anyway
-Fox Broadcasting is the first network to permit condom advertising on television.
-The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague
-Cold War ends?
-Collapse of the Soviet Union
-I was born (most important event in history
)-Sega Game Gear
-Commodore Amiga CDTV
-Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
-FM Towns Marty
-Philips CD-i
- American Video Entertainment files a US$105 million lawsuit against Nintendo, accusing the company of violation of anti-trust laws, by trying to prevent compatible game cartridges into the marketplace. American Video Entertainment had developed technology to allow their game cartridges to be played on Nintendo machines.
-Super Mario World
-F-Zero
-SimCity
-Tecmo Super Bowl
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
-Super Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
-Final Fantasy 4 (2 in NA)
-Super Castlevania IV
-Street Fighter II
One of the best years in VG
1981 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981
U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.
Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience (2 days after Christmas in 1983, Pope John Paul goes to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin).
The first De Lorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
Chiang Ching ('Madame Mao') is sentenced to death in China.
MTV (Music Television) is launched.
The heavy metal band Metallica forms.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.
Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome to address a general audience (2 days after Christmas in 1983, Pope John Paul goes to the prison to meet and forgive his would-be assassin).
The first De Lorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
Chiang Ching ('Madame Mao') is sentenced to death in China.
MTV (Music Television) is launched.
The heavy metal band Metallica forms.
Spotless Mind
Member
Aliens was released. That's all i need or care to know.
bggrthnjsus
Member
my 1985 notables:
January 1 - The first British cell phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone).
January 20 - The San Francisco 49ers win their 2nd NFL Championship in 4 years by defeating the Miami Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California.
January 28 - In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.
February 1 - I am born. everyone rejoices.
February 19 - William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital.
March 6 - Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first round knockout.
March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
March 14 - Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on birth control after the lion population increases from 2 to 16.
March 31 - WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden
April 23 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)
May 15 - An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at UC Berkeley. First serious injury caused by the unabomber.
May 31 - Forty-one tornadoes hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
June 13 - In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
June 27 - Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
July 4 - Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people: the worst single-aircraft disaster in history.
September 19 - An 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City. More than 9,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless.
November 15 - In separate events, mail bombs kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring career counterfeiter Mark Hoffman. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hoffman for the two murders.
December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
Others:
Tetris released
All in all a good year for air disasters, air terrorism, domestic terrorism, and murder.
January 1 - The first British cell phone call is made (by Ernie Wise to Vodafone).
January 20 - The San Francisco 49ers win their 2nd NFL Championship in 4 years by defeating the Miami Dolphins 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California.
January 28 - In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.
February 1 - I am born. everyone rejoices.
February 19 - William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital.
March 6 - Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first round knockout.
March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
March 14 - Five lionesses at the Singapore Zoo are put on birth control after the lion population increases from 2 to 16.
March 31 - WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden
April 23 - Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)
May 15 - An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at UC Berkeley. First serious injury caused by the unabomber.
May 31 - Forty-one tornadoes hit in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
June 13 - In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
June 27 - Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
July 4 - Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people: the worst single-aircraft disaster in history.
September 19 - An 8.1 Richter scale earthquake strikes Mexico City. More than 9,000 people are killed, 30,000 injured, and 95,000 left homeless.
November 15 - In separate events, mail bombs kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring career counterfeiter Mark Hoffman. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hoffman for the two murders.
December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
Others:
Tetris released
All in all a good year for air disasters, air terrorism, domestic terrorism, and murder.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Oh, I forgot about New Coke, Wrestlemania and Tetris. :facepalm:bggrthnjsus said:
Loma Prieta happened
May 1 - Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.
October 17 - The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region of Northern California, killing 63.
May 1 - Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.
August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.
October 17 - The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region of Northern California, killing 63.
OMG...I just looked.
I'm 13 days older than Carson Palmer...
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE?
Not get stuck on the Bengals, THAT'S WHAT!
TAKE THAT ADAM BRODY, 1 Day bitch!
Stacy Keibler is 2 months older than me.
MINDFUCK!!!!
Share a birthday with Michael Owen, a footballer from England. Same first name...gee, Michael's not a common name either...
I'm 13 days older than Carson Palmer...
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE?
Not get stuck on the Bengals, THAT'S WHAT!
TAKE THAT ADAM BRODY, 1 Day bitch!
Stacy Keibler is 2 months older than me.
MINDFUCK!!!!
Share a birthday with Michael Owen, a footballer from England. Same first name...gee, Michael's not a common name either...
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
Handful of 1989s have already posted so I'll just post this:
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977
January 20 - Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.
April 8 - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash (album) is released in the UK on CBS Records.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.
June 5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
August 16 - Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack excaberated by drug use.
August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France.
October 14 - Bing Crosby Died of heart attack.
October 28 - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the United Kingdom.
October, exact date unknown - Atari 2600 game system is released.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977
January 20 - Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald Ford as the 39th President of the United States.
April 8 - Punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash (album) is released in the UK on CBS Records.
May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.
June 5 - The first Apple II computers go on sale.
August 16 - Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack excaberated by drug use.
August 20 - Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
September 10 - Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France.
October 14 - Bing Crosby Died of heart attack.
October 28 - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols is released in the United Kingdom.
October, exact date unknown - Atari 2600 game system is released.
Harbadakus
Member
Diablos said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol
This was the first thing I thought of upon seeing that pic.
lordfroakie
Member
1985:
October 18 - The Nintendo Entertainment System is released on US shores. I was born 10 days after the release
# December 16 - In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.
Microsoft Releases Windows 1 :lol
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents.
# In the Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), the present time is 1985. The events depicted in 1985 occur on October 25th, 26th and 27th of that year, which the films accurately portray as a Friday and the following weekend.
# DNA is first used in a criminal case[1]
NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs after resigning from Apple Computer.
Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)
"New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
October 18 - The Nintendo Entertainment System is released on US shores. I was born 10 days after the release
# December 16 - In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family.
Microsoft Releases Windows 1 :lol
The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents.
# In the Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), the present time is 1985. The events depicted in 1985 occur on October 25th, 26th and 27th of that year, which the films accurately portray as a Friday and the following weekend.
# DNA is first used in a criminal case[1]
NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs after resigning from Apple Computer.
Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.
Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than 3 months.)
"New York, New York" becomes the official city anthem of New York City.
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