Candle-Zero on Your Cake

[mouseman]

The day I was born, the Beatles made their very first appearance on the American Billboard chart (it was, overall, an amazing year for them in the USA). That year was a very eventful year, which included the signing of the Civil Rights act into law, the USA joined the Vietnam War, the civil war in Cyprus began, Khrushchev was ousted, elections in the USA and the UK, just to name a few events.

For all you Canadians out there, the first Tim Horton's was opened that year.

[ursula]

In my mother's estimation, my birth came a distant third in importance to the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup and the Diefenbaker government falling.

[Vkw10]

JFK was killed the year I was born.

[memyself]

Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky died the year I was born.
The New York Times published the Pentagon papers that same year.

[hesitant]

Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.

[science.expat]

JFK was killed the year I was born.

Same

[downer]

Cuban missile crisis.

Snap!

[ciao_yall]

Cuban missile crisis.

Snap!

Were you born exactly 9 months after the Cuban Missile Crisis? I heard that was a thing. Everyone decided to try and lose their virginity because, if they were going to die, didn't want to have missed out.

[fishbrains]

Gulf of Tonkin incident a few months before I was born.

Same year, different month for me. Also, MLK Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.

[downer]

Cuban missile crisis.

Snap!

Were you born exactly 9 months after the Cuban Missile Crisis? I heard that was a thing. Everyone decided to try and lose their virginity because, if they were going to die, didn't want to have missed out.

If I were, then the crisis would not have been what was going on when I was born!

My parents were certainly not virgins when they married.

[lillipat]

John XXIII was elected pope a few months after I was born.

[onehappyunicorn]

Star Wars, also Groucho Marx died that year.

[AJ_Katz]

In this year, E.T. was a popular movie, Michael Jackson's Thriller came out, and Dutch Elm Disease ravaged trees across the U.S.

On the day, U.S. performed a nuclear test on the Nevada Test Site.

[Descartes]

Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide kill 7 in Chicago, leading to the legendary "most successful PR campaign in history."  I suppose there's a bright spot for you.

[Bede the Vulnerable]

The Summer of Love. How fitting, given the overflowing love that I have inside of me.