OK, what was the "main event" in your birth year? For self? Well, most general, "D-Day." But I was still slumbering inside Mom, but just before my advent the most severe earthquake for my state (since those recorded) jostled Mom, not far from the epicenter. And a major hurricane swept ashore in my state on my birth day. Maybe the low pressure pulled me out? Yes, I'm outing myself: New York State, 1944. Deal with it.
A US president resigned the same year I was born.
The US landed a man on the moon in my birth year.
Queen Elizabeth was crowned 6 months after I was born.
M.
John Lennon was shot
Gulf of Tonkin incident a few months before I was born.
The few days around my birth hosted some Olympic games (I think in Japan).
At least those that have replied so far were born before (the first) Star Wars came out. That is comforting to read
Im sure that there will be plenty who reply after will be Post Star Wars babies.
We went to see Star Wars I sometime in the first month after we were married.
It took that long for the snow to be cleared from the cinema steps across the rotary from our apartment.
M.
MLK and RFK were assassinated the year I was born.
Pet Sounds and Revolver both topped the Billboard Charts the year I was born, along with a number of other amazing albums.
The Berlin Wall was built the year I was born. (Probably not specifically to keep me out. Or in.)
The Yankees won the World Series the year I was born.
You're 96 years old?
M.
Perhaps.
The massacres at Sabra and Shatila.
Truman won the presidential election the year I was born.
Jaws was released and ushered in the era of the blockbuster movie.
Cuban missile crisis.
My parents bought their first television set to watch the lunar landing!
(Actually this may have happened a little after I was born.)
Calendar birth year: 1st man on the moon, Woodstock, Stonewall riots, Manson murders
My actual year 0 (my birth to one year later): First ever messge on ARPANET, first episode of Minty Python, first Earth Day, Kent State shootings.
Quote from: mythbuster on June 11, 2019, 11:46:44 AM
Jaws was released and ushered in the era of the blockbuster movie.
Same here! I always think of this example, because my parents told me it was the first movie I ever "saw", and it was at the drive-in (with them).
Elvis Presley died.
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Or so they say
Evel Knievel set a world record by jumping 19 cars in Ontario, California.
The Impossible Dream Red Sox.
Sputnik 2 came down a few days after I was born. A few weeks later, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 3. Two months after that, Ike created NASA.
Also that year, the computer microchip was invented. Bobby Fischer, then 14, won the U.S. Chess Championship. Packard Cars closed up shop. Nikita Krushchev became premier of the Soviet Union. Elvis was inducted into the army. And a bunch of other stuff, but no "Where were you when..." moments.
So now you know my age.
Sgt Pepper was released
JFK announced his candidacy for presidency.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, Emmett Till was murdered for whistling at a white woman and Salk's polio vaccine was declared effective and safe for public use.
Quote from: drbrt on June 10, 2019, 05:27:54 PM
John Lennon was shot
Same. Also Mount St. Helens erupting.
John F. Kennedy was elected about 6 weeks before I was born.
Post-It notes were first introduced onto the market.
Oh, and the Columbia program.
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.
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.
JFK was killed the year I was born.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky died the year I was born.
The New York Times published the Pentagon papers that same year.
Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.
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Quote from: brixton on June 11, 2019, 12:49:50 PM
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.
Quote from: clean on June 10, 2019, 06:20:28 PM
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.
Quote from: ciao_yall on August 22, 2019, 09:36:15 AM
Quote from: downer on August 22, 2019, 07:46:40 AM
Quote from: brixton on June 11, 2019, 12:49:50 PM
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.
John XXIII was elected pope a few months after I was born.
Star Wars, also Groucho Marx died that year.
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.
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.
The Summer of Love. How fitting, given the overflowing love that I have inside of me.
Patsy Cline died in a plane crash and Alcatraz was closed.