The year I was born
In 1969 (the year you were born)
Richard Nixon becomes president of the US (After seeing what's on the ballot I'd like to dig that sombitch up, do some voodoo and vote for his rotten zombie corpse )
Mary Jo Kopechne is killed when Senator Edward Kennedy veers off a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, crashing into a pond (Teddy, The fact that you have been repeatedly re-elected for the last 30 odd years after that disgusting behavior truely shows the idiocy of your constituents.
US astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to set foot on the moon while commanding the Apollo 11 mission (Good thing Ted Kennedy wasn't driving)
Breathtaking pictures of Mars are transmitted to earth from NASA's Mariner 7 as it passes within 2,200 miles of the Red Planet (Apparently looking for intelligent life because there is none here on earth)
Woodstock music festival begins in upstate NY, featuring performances by Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and many more artists (Also known as the biggest deoderant and bathing boycott rally of 1969)
250,000 Vietnam War protestors gather in Washington for the largest anti-war rally in US history (The second biggest bathing and deoderant boycott rally of 1969)
The first draft lottery since WWII is held in New York City (That's one way to make the hippies leave after woodstock...)
The Beatles' performance in public for the last time, on the roof of Apple Records (Ticketmaster was pissed)
The Stonewall riots mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the US (What did they do....throw dildos and feather boas at the police?)
Marilyn Manson, Jennifer Aniston, Renee Zellweger, Edward Norton, Christian Slater, and Linus Torvalds are born (Who in a rotting goats ass is Linus Torvalds?)
New York Mets win the World Series (meh)
New York Jets win Superbowl III (they thought it was cute that jets rhymed with mets)
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup (Who?)
Sesame Street premieres (Yay big bird)
Midnight Cowboy wins the Oscar for best picture (The brokeback mountain of 1969... go figure)
David Bowie's debut single, "Space Oddity", becomes a huge hit - in part due to the US landing on the moon (...and I'm shitting in a tin can..... far above the world...)
Sharon Tate & the LaBiancas are found murdered by Charles Manson & "family" (Ok.. who invited the Mansons?)
What happened the year you were born?
posted by Bill Rowland @ February 07, 2008
42 Comments
42 Comments:
hmm...i wonder what happened in the world the year I was born
"Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup (Who?)"
Smartass...lmaooooooooo..
don't think they have won it since..roflmao
so what you're saying is that in one year there are merely two significant events:
1) Hammer being born
2) Sesame Street premieres
the rest is just f-ed up
Torvalds created Linux.
I was 23 years old dude!
"Who in a rotting goats ass is Linus Torvalds?"
Luddite.
My mum gave me a birthday card detailing the things that occurred during 1960 - thoroughly depressing!
Cheers
you are older than big bird... wow
Linux made that rottonass RICH!
I think if you look in the bible you will note that I was born before Christ....
LMAO... ok ok I looked.. now I am depressed.
Only 48 states and guess what?? The Canadians won that year too!
Can you spell IKE?
I am older than you? No shit!
Flyinfox_SATX
What happened the year I was born? Well, it would seem that you already listed the headlines for that year...
The same thing that happened the year YOU were born.
No wonder I'm a Habs fan...
Same as you only ten years earlier.
1969....one of the best years of my life. I had a great time, even though I was only 14.
meleah: I put a link on the bottom of the post so you can look it up.
canadian: lol well I guess I could have looked it up.;)
miss: Thanks! yep big bird is indeed pretty important.
alan: I feel like such a phillistine now ;)
mushy: Can I see some ID? ;)
david: After using Linux I would tend to agree.
maddy: It's like reading ancient history ;)
snowmanpoop: Me and the BB are twins
cheesy: I like IKE :)
flyinfox: there I go dating myself again ;)
John: what a coincidence!
anndi: I had to look up Habs lol
JP: Your birthday was overrun by dirty hippies too?
leann: I bet it was a good time and place to have fun. Too bad I was still on the bottle ;)
I was 10 that year so I remember a LOT of that stuff.
* 24th Amendment to Constitution adopted, ensuring fair voting practices
* Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud, conspiracy and jury tampering
* First lung transplant
* Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston to win heavyweight boxing title
Ahhhh ... the last of the baby boomers!
Jeannie: good memory, I was busy crapping myself when all that was going on ;)
Dana: yep you're right on the cusp.
i'm sure they weren't recording history the year i was born...it was a long time after...ten years after...yeah...
goin' home.
nice time capsule for you... a lot of events just passing by... i do not know what happened 10 years after that ... that was the year i was born
I am certainly not going to post the year I was born, It's too long time ago, and I don't care who won the Superbowl or any other Superamerican game this year.
Excellent!
Going to see what happened in 1954- from what I remember- nothing! Hell I was just born you know!
Thanks for the Link!!!!
J
LOL- Who in a rotting goat's ass- LOL.
TAG! You're it!
Hehehehe. This is a fun one.
Well that was depressing...the year I was born was the tv game show scandal and Elvis enlisted in the army.
I looked up 1982. I guess that was when the first Rubik's cube world championship was held. Also Thriller was released. Fascinating!
I was beginning high school in 1969...and I remember going to NYC for the Jets ticker tape parade and chasing after Joe Namath..ahahaha.
and I also remember all the other things mentioned her...arrggghhh!!!
Oh and I almost made it to Woodstock but my Mom caught me trying to sneak out with all my stuff...damn. then I was grounded!
Peace
The year that I was born, marked the start of my mom crying uncontrollaby for years upon years. Cheers!!
I'm with you who the hell is Linus Torvalds????
Obviously he lives ina rotting goats ass. heheheheh
Yikes, I can hardly keep up. I just posted the Ten Signs meme, now off to research 1964.
1977 no idea. but I suppose I could look up hte year and find out..LOL..
Walt Disney World opened on my actual birthday... YIKES!
1952
First British atom bomb test.
US military occupation of Japan ends.
US test first hydrogen bomb.
Agatha Christie's play, The Mousetrap, opens in London, England. It will eventually become the longest continuously running play in history.
Summer Olympic Games held in Helsinki
Winter Olympic Games held in Oslo
The contraceptive pill was introduced. Polio vaccine was developed. The transistor radio was developed.
Pius XII was Pope; Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Evita Peron, wife of Argentine President Juan Peron, died.
Albert Schweitzer won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.
Herman Wouk won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Caine Mutiny.
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. John Steinbeck's novel East of Eden was published in 1952.
Korean War continued. The U.S. launched bombing attacks against North Korea. The Indochinese War continued. The Mau Mau rebellion began in Kenya. Greece and Turkey joined NATO.
President Truman decided not to run for reelection. The Republicans nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for President. The Democrats nominated Adlai E. Stevenson. In the elections on Nov. 4, Eisenhower defeated Stevenson, and became President-Elect, with Richard M. Nixon as his Vice-President.
In Washington, D.C., Senator Joseph McCarthy, Republican from Wisconsin, continued his efforts to expose communists in government, attempting to discredit the Truman administration. A wave of anti-communism, known as "McCarthyism," swept the country.
On March 20, 1952, the Academy Awards for 1951 were announced. Best Film was awarded to An American in Paris, Best Director to George Stevens for A Place in the Sun, Best Actor to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen, Best Actress to Vivien Leigh for A Streetcar Named Desire, Best Supporting Actor to Karl Malden for A Streetcar Named Desire, and Best Supporting Actress to Kim Hunter for A Streetcar Named Desire.
Movies released in 1952 included: The Greatest Show on Earth (which won the Academy Award for Best Film), The Quiet Man (for which John Ford won the Academy Award for Best Director), High Noon (for which Gary Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Come Back, Little Sheba (for which Shirley Booth won the Academy Award for Best Actress), Viva Zapata (for which Anthony Quinn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), and The Bad and the Beautiful (for which Gloria Grahame won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress).
Other films released in 1952 included: The Member of the Wedding, Singin' in the Rain, Forbidden Games, Moulin Rouge, Dreamboat, Springfield Rifle, The Snows of Kilimanjaro,The Prisoner of Zenda, Ivanhoe, Beware, My Lovely, Affair in Trinidad, and What Price Glory?.
Actors and actresses who were born in 1952 included: Maria Schneider (March 27 in Paris), Liam Neeson (June 7 in Ireland), Isabella Rossellini (June 18 in Rome), Robin Williams (July 21 in Chicago), Patrick Swayze (August 18in Texas), Christopher Reeve (Sept. 25 in New York), Paul Rubens (a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, August 27 in New York), Jeff Goldblum (Oct. 22 in Pittsburgh), Angelica Huston (in Ireland).
New York Yankees won the 1952 World Series, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 3.
The price of a loaf of bread was 16cents. Cotton-knit blouses were on sale at Sears for $1.98 each. Men's rayon sports shirts were on sale at Sears for $3.66 each.
A Magnavox wedgewood TV-phonograph-radio was selling for $595. A 1952 two-door Buick Sedan was selling for $2280.
On Nov.4, a tidal wave hit Hawaii, caused by an earthquake off the coast of Japan. In Vietnam, French troops attacked Vietminh forces in the hill country of North Tonkin.
1952 was a leap year.
Thanks for the idea, Hammer!
The day I was born in 1972 the song 'Horse With No Name' by America was the #1 song in America!
1962
Cuban missile crisis.
Marylin Monroe dies.
Thalidomide causes thousands of birth defects and is taken off market.
Sheryl "one sqare of toilet paper" Crow is born.
Yankees win World Series (again?)
Man, 1962 sucked.
1969.
Hippies were getting it on and dropping lots of acid.
Led Zeppelin was alive and well as well as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. I didn't know the Dead played at Woodstock.
Kennedy was assasinated.
The world wasn't big enough for both of us.
I was in the Army. Attending Woodstock was not an option.
Wow this is cool, although the whole lot of sports reference don't mean much to me and I love Space Oddity and David Bowie. Also, did you find out who is Linus Torvalds? I'm going to have to look it up now. Ciao.
Ooooh He's the guy who invited Linux. He's Finnish. How interesting.
I was 8 or 9, so I remember all that shit. And I'd a voted for "tricky dick" too.
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