Candle-Zero on Your Cake

[Juvenal]

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.

[polly_mer]

A US president resigned the same year I was born.

[Fantod]

The US landed a man on the moon in my birth year.

[mamselle]

Queen Elizabeth was crowned 6 months after I was born.

M.

[drbrt]

John Lennon was shot

[clean]

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. 

[mamselle]

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.

[sinenomine]

MLK and RFK were assassinated the year I was born.

[ciao_yall]

Pet Sounds and Revolver both topped the Billboard Charts the year I was born, along with a number of other amazing albums.

[marshwiggle]

The Berlin Wall was built the year I was born. (Probably not specifically to keep me out. Or in.)

[aside]

The Yankees won the World Series the year I was born.

[mamselle]

You're 96 years old?

M.

[aside]

Perhaps.

[nescafe]

The massacres at Sabra and Shatila.

[cathwen]

Truman won the presidential election the year I was born.