Candle-Zero on Your Cake

[mythbuster]

Jaws was released and ushered in the era of the blockbuster movie.

[brixton]

Cuban missile crisis. 

[hungry_ghost]

My  parents bought their first television set to watch the lunar landing! 
(Actually this may have happened a little after I was born.)

[onthefringe]

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.

[ab_grp]

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).

[sprout]

Elvis Presley died.



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Or so they say

[FishProf]

 Evel Knievel set a world record by jumping 19 cars in Ontario, California.

[kaysixteen]

The Impossible Dream Red Sox.

[InfoPri]

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.

[Scout]

Sgt Pepper was released

[monarda]

JFK announced his candidacy for presidency.

[FKM100]

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.

[archaeo42]

John Lennon was shot

Same. Also Mount St. Helens erupting.

[AmLitHist]

John F. Kennedy was elected about 6 weeks before I was born.

[ex_mo]

Post-It notes were first introduced onto the market.

Oh, and the Columbia program.