Thought this was neat.
In 1969 (the year you were born) |
 Richard Nixon becomes president of the US Mary Jo Kopechne is killed when Senator Edward Kennedy veers off a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, crashing into a pond US astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to set foot on the moon while commanding the Apollo 11 mission Breathtaking pictures of Mars are transmitted to earth from NASA's Mariner 7 as it passes within 2,200 miles of the Red Planet Woodstock music festival begins in upstate NY, featuring performances by Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and many more artists 250,000 Vietnam War protestors gather in Washington for the largest anti-war rally in US history The first draft lottery since WWII is held in New York City The Beatles' performance in public for the last time, on the roof of Apple Records The Stonewall riots mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the US Marilyn Manson, Jennifer Aniston, Renee Zellweger, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, and Linus Torvalds are born Sesame Street premieres Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar for best picture Hammer is born with the sole purpose to put an end to all this dirty hippy nonsense. David Bowie's debut single, "Space Oddity", becomes a huge hit - in part due to the US landing on the moon Sharon Tate & the LaBiancas are found murdered by Charles Manson & "family" |
posted by Bill Rowland @ January 19, 2007
25 Comments
25 Comments:
In 1943 Billy B Cook was born, the only important thing that happened that year. But it was fifty years before he started seeing his path.
Hey!!! Not everything hippy is bad, got a little hippy in me.
But I'll never smoke pot with Willie again. LOL
My little brother was born Nov 7, 1969.
BBC: that's a funny song.
Nomas: That is 8 days before me.
You're a Halloween baby!
nomas, I'm more of a thanksgiving turkey ;)
I remember all of that, with the exception being the movie.
Damn, 2 great things happened in 1938. Me and the ballpoint pen.
history's for suckers. the future's where the future is.
Ah, speaking of the future, I think I will talk about that tomorrow.
dick, that was the brokeass mountain of that time. Gay cowboy prostitutes.
myron: thats not fair I get a moon landing and charlie and marylin manson and all you get is a lousy pen ;)
brooklyn: truedat but it's hard to have a future channel, a future teature and a future book ;)
BBC: can't wait :)
"teacher"
1969, same year that I came along. I'll take the moon landing and Sesame Street over the Manson mess though...both of them.
Lots of shit happened on your B-Day...kind of cool!
Your year was WAY more productive and exciting that MINE!! I'll post mine soon.
"I gotta little hippy in me,
He's only 4 foot 3,
He's wearing a bandana
and smoking his weeeeeee(d)
I gotta little hippy in me"
;)
Actually, I agree BBC...I got a little hippy in me too....I think it's the non-conformist/freedom thing....
The hippy in me is more of the back to the land type. Well, there is the love thing also.
But love on this planet is hard.
jarheadjohn: I hear ya, I wish I was able to remember it.
Jenny: Yeah and I get to snicker when I tell people I was born in "69"
KB: lol! Hippy stuff isn't all bad the music the best thing to come out of the 60's and 70's
BBC: I've met quite a few hippies that I could get along with as long as they bathe and don't start on politics ;)
LOL! Hammer line snuck right up on me. In 69 I was 10, and my siblings were split right down the middle Jackie O imatators or hippies.
Geez - I remember 1969. My Mom made me stay up to watch the moon landing on a 20" black and white TV. We were at the cottage. There were endless simulations prior to the real thing - I was so bored.
Woodstock was huge.
Really - the 60's were such a hopeful time. It's a wonder to me that the world got so deep in the crapper with all the anti this and that that went on then. And I believed all the hippie hype. I really did. I might have been one of the few.
in `69 i was eight. my youngest boy is eight now. i remember some of my thoughts then and realise that my son has similar powerful adult type thoughts, even though he is small and his voice is tiny yet.
i know not to bullshit him.
i think that`s we can do really.
kat: that is some dicotomy for one houshold ;)
Jeannie: I like the semi innocence and idealism of the sixties. It got fake an commericalized with poseurs really quick though.
Dr alistair: I try to put myself in my kids shoes and give them honesty as well. I grew up so much different and I find myself learning from them just as much as I teach.
Hammer is born with the sole purpose to put an end to all this dirty hippy nonsense.
LOL, and somehow some of these hippies have survived the wrath of hammer.
skinnylittleblond: lol I ain't done yet ;)
Ham~~ I curse you! First of all I am now depressed! I had to scroll wayyyyy down to find my year! LOL and WTF is wrong with being a nippy chick HUM? hehe
My year.. geez!
Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US [scarey]
Alaska is admitted as the 49th state Hawaii admitted as the 50th state [cripes I'm older than states!]
A plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper - becomes known as "The Day The Music Died" [but the world got a little Cheesy]
not a great trade but not too horrible
Cheesy: the scrolling gets longer every year for all of us lol.
I used to say screw it and put in 1900 for everything.
You just told me what happen. lol
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