I am starting from 1990, and will go down to the 40's to allow for Hoogbest  :)

Also, please try to tell us all a little something that happened in your birth year  :)

I was born in 1961

The Berlin Wall was put up in my year.  ::)

1967...summer of love and all that malarkey...

This was the year the first heart transplant was performed...

Muhammad Ali was stripped of his world boxing titles for refusing to be drafted into action in Vietnam...

And the first British football team won the European Champions' Cup...and typically, it went to the Jocks! Glasgow Celtic, to be precise...beating Inter Milan 2-1...

early 1984  a good year in music...Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Van Halen, Bruce Sprinsteen, Duran Duran, ETC.


...technicalllly 2002  :) Don't really know much pop culture wise...

1970...the major events that stood out were the killings of the students at Kent State by National Guardsmen and the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. Also, one of my favorite albums came out that year--"Funhouse" by the Stooges.

1966


I don't know of anything Earth-shattering that happened that year.  :-\\

1966


I don't know of anything Earth-shattering that happened that year.  :-\\


Had you been English you would have had something to say !  But I will leave that to them to reveal  ;)

In Aus, it was the year year we changed to decimal currency  :)

Had you been English you would have had something to say !  But I will leave that to them to reveal  ;)

In Aus, it was the year year we changed to decimal currency  :)


Hmmm....now you have me curious!  Paul?  Bobby?  ;)

Hmmm....now you have me curious!  Paul?  Bobby?   ;)


Lemme know if you don't get an answer in time, CF, and I will spill it  :)

1971...not sure of anything earthshattering, but Nixon was president.  Also, A Clockwork Orange came out.

Had you been English you would have had something to say !  But I will leave that to them to reveal  ;)



Ah! Keep her guessin'...!!

But, I can tell you Karen, on the exact day you were born...

The State Opening of the UK Parliament was televised for the very first time...(a little-known fact you can drop at dinner parties...!)

We lost Walt Disney that year, along with Montgomery Clift...

Ah! Keep her guessin'...!!

But, I can tell you Karen, on the exact day you were born...

The State Opening of the UK Parliament was televised for the very first time...(a little-known fact you can drop at dinner parties...!)

We lost Walt Disney that year, along with Montgomery Clift...


So you're not going to fill me in regarding the 'big one', eh?  Gee, thanks.  :(

I had indeed heard that Walt Disney passed away that year....it was just stuck in the back on my brain.

Technically, I really shouldn't be answering this question because it will really show my age.  :-[  I usually tell everyone I am 143-I lie about my age.  ;) But, this time I will. I was born in 1963-the major event of the year: What else? Kennedy being assassinated.



Cat

In sports news that year.....

World Series
Pittsburgh d. NY Yankees (4-3)

NBA Championship
Boston d. St. Louis Hawks (4-3)

Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Toronto (4-0)

Wimbledon
Women: Maria Bueno d. S. Reynolds (8-6 6-0)
Men: Neale Fraser d. R. Laver (6-4 3-6 9-7 7-5)

Kentucky Derby Champion
Venetian Way

NCAA Basketball Championship
Ohio St. d. California (75-55)

NCAA Football Champions
Minnesota (AP, UPI, NFF) (8-2-0) & Mississippi (FW) (10-0-1)

NFL Title Game:
Philadelphia Eagles (10-2-0) Green Bay Packers (8-4-0)
Philadelphia 17  Green Bay 13
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Entertainment: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho terrifies movie-goers and becomes one of the year's most successful films, as well as one of the most memorable psychological thrillers.
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I was born in 1961 :) That was the year JFK was inaugurated.

Normally, I would never answer a question like this.  For you Fuss, I made an exception.  ;)  Born the same year as CF.

Googled these Major events of 1966:

Chinese leader, Mao Zedong launches Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

England win the soccer World Cup, defeating West Germany 4-2 after extra time.


Academy Award winning movie:

A Man For All Seasons (never seen)

I was born in 1980, the year that Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter by a landslide. :-[

Normally, I would never answer a question like this.  For you Fuss, I made an exception.   ;)  Born the same year as CF.

Thanks !  :)

Googled these Major events of 1966:

England win the soccer World Cup, defeating West Germany 4-2 after extra time.



CF, therein lies the answer to the earlier question  ;)

1988.  The last episode of St. Elsewhere was aired, and it ended up all being a figment of the little boy's imagination...

I just got done watching I <3 the 80s.  Forgive me.

I was born in 1968.  Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both assasinated the year I was born.

1959

Eisenhower was president, and there was a lot of really crappy music on the charts. :P

Born 21st March 1986. I'm now 6645 days old.

Born the day before singer Amy Studt, and 13 days before Amanda Bynes. (So I just read..)

Coming up in this year: "Cher thinks David Letterman is an a**hole, The Everly Brothers get invited into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, and Kodak fight a losing battle with Polaroid." Apparently!

1988...hmm, I don't know.  :-\\

1988...hmm, I don't know.  :-\\


For what it is worth Fred, Australia's Bi-Centenary  :)

For what it is worth Fred, Australia's Bi-Centenary  :)

Thanks FB, 'cause nothing else on the planet happened this year.  :-\\

Thanks FB, 'cause nothing else on the planet happened this year.  :-\\


Well, Fred...you could have the big scandal of that year in the Seoul olympics, when 100m sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his title and world record for drug taking...

George Bush (version 1) was elected US president...

And the Turin Shroud was declared a 'fake'...

1988.  The last episode of St. Elsewhere was aired, and it ended up all being a figment of the little boy's imagination...

Sniff - I still remember bawling at the end of that when the little kitten that use to miaow at the end of the credits - was instead dead on a gurney with a heart monitor going BEEEEEEEEP.


I was born in 1968.

Aussie events:

From the Australian Government Archives There was also the bizarre episode of an eight-day house siege during which the NSW Police Commissioner acted as a witness to the wedding of a gun-toting Wally Mellish to one Beryl Muddle.  This event was later turned into a movie starring Colin Friels and Jacqueline McKenzie.

Rain Lover won the first of consecutive Melbourne Cups



Elsewhere:

Robert Kennedy assasinated

Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis

Martin Luther King Jr murdered

The rock musical Hair opens on Broadway.

Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant.

Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. Goals for the mission include the first live television broadcast from orbit and testing the lunar module docking maneuver.

Helen Keller died.

Cant remember why but the Summer and Winter Olympics were both held that year.

And around the world it was a big years for Demonstrations re Vietnam.

1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura)

Rolf Harris is awarded the M.B.E.

Author Enid Blyton dies

The first decimal coins are introduced in the UK, the 5p and 10p coins

English Comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney, Australia

First Kodak Instamatic camera

Scientists devise the Epidural to ease the pain of childbirth

Boeing 747 first flight


Some great movies and songs of 68

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
Bonnie and Clyde,
The Graduate,
To Sir with Love,
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, (Hepburn won the Oscar)
Funny Girl (Striesand sharing the Oscar with Hepburn)
The Producers (and 36 years later here it is on stage in Aus)

"Born To Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
"Hey Jude"/"Revolution" - The Beatles
"Mrs. Robinson" - Simon and Garfunkel
"MacArthur Park" - Richard Harris
"Congratulations" (Cliff Richard came 2nd at Eurovision with it !)
Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey"  (oh dear !)
Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7 (one of my faves :) )
Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album

I was born in 1967, in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Classic movies: Bonnie & Clyde, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate & The Dirty Dozen were released in ’67.

Pony cars gone now, but not forgotten: Chevy’s response to Ford’s Mustang, the Camaro was first introduced.

Rolling Stone magazine debuts.

The Beatles “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Harts Club Band” album released.

US congress creates PBS, and federal funding for public educational programming.

Grammy’s:
Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year: "Michelle," John Lennon and Paul McCartney, songwriters

Popular TV shows: Mission Impossible, Get Smart, I Spy, & Wild, Wild West.

1971.  Which means I was lucky enough to grow up in the 80's!

1993...that's why I couldn't vote in the poll.

Erm...

I haven't the faintest idea what could have happened in that year.

I was born on 2 December 1972.

Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister (of Canada), and people were listening to stuff like T-Rex, Roxy Music, Gary Glitter and David Bowie (his Ziggy Stardust years).

I apparently have the same birthday as Britney Spears (eeeeeeeeewwww...<wretch, sputter, vomit>) but thankfully she wasn't born the same year!

Absolutely Vile

I was born in 1979.

The time the films Alien, Mad Max and Apocolypse Now were released. Sid Vicious from The Sex Pistols and Mr Ed the talking horse died and the first gay rights march took place in Washington DC.

Twenty-five years tomorrow, if memory serves, Bobby!

Or would you rather not to be reminded ?!

I was born in 1979.

Twenty-five years tomorrow, if memory serves, Bobby!

Or would you rather not to be reminded ?!


Heh heh. It's the quarter of a century milestone, Bobo. I never thought I'd get this far.  ;D

Thank you very much for remembering, Bobo.  :)

1959

Eisenhower was president, and there was a lot of really crappy music on the charts. :P


And don't forget that this was also the year that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (aka 'The Big Bopper') died in that awful plane crash.  :\'( :\'( :\'(

  1963  Queen Elizabeth  visited Tasmania and the hospital where i was born.   

1993...that's why I couldn't vote in the poll.

Erm...

I haven't the faintest idea what could have happened in that year.



Movies: "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Philadelphia", and "Basic Indistinct"

Albums: Nirvana "In Utero", Janet Jackson "Janet", Radiohead "Pablo Honey"

Music videos: Blind Melon "No Rain", REM "Everybody Hurts", Tom Petty "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

TV: Final episode of "Cheers" and "X Files" premiered

I was born in 1963.

In that year it was a really cold winter in England, my parents told me they were snowbound for weeks that winter (I was born in January).

I was born in 1963.

In that year it was a really cold winter in England, my parents told me they were snowbound for weeks that winter (I was born in January).


Seconded, as one of my sisters was born in the previous month (December '62), and my mother always comments on how bad that winter was...apparently that 'big freeze' lasted right up until mid-March 1963...

1964

The Beatles toured, the Olympic games were held in Tokyo, No.1 song 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' and at the box office...Goldfinger and Dr Strangelove.

1959

Eisenhower was president, and there was a lot of really crappy music on the charts. :P
Don't forget Sputnik!!
Guess I'm the patriarch here (remember that one Z ;) ;D).........at least on this thread.
1956 - Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in World Series history for the NY Yankees.

Wow! I actually have cats that are older than some of you! :o  ;D

  1963  Queen Elizabeth  visited Tasmania and the hospital where i was born.   


Hey zac

Didn't realise you were an Aussie  :)

1993...that's why I couldn't vote in the poll.

Erm...

I haven't the faintest idea what could have happened in that year.


Yikes, that was when my daughter was born.  January of 1993.

I haven't the faintest idea what could have happened in that year.
I got my second divorce in that year. :)

I got my second divorce in that year. :)


Goes to show we ARE all just "Dust In The Wind" hey ?  These great time differences - when one is starting out, another is a fair way through.

And in the end, we are all the same  :)

1988...hmm, I don't know.  :-\\


Well, Fred. The Sega Megadrive (8 bit old generation games console) was released for the first time in Japan in 1988.

1993...that's why I couldn't vote in the poll.

Erm...

I haven't the faintest idea what could have happened in that year.


Wow! You're only ten/eleven years old? You have the best spelling and grammar I've seen from anybody of the same age - Very good, Ripp. This is what happened in 1993 . . .

Bill Clinton becomes president of the USA after George Bush Snr

Legendary actress, Audrey Hepburn died in January and the excellent actor Bill Bixby (well known for playing Dr David Bruce Banner in The Incredible Hulk series of the 70s) died in November of that year as well.

The sitcom Cheers ends after 11 years and Beavis and Butthead is introduced to MTV.

I was born in 1959.

Events:

The first Mini-car was made
Dalai Lama flees Tibet and finds sanctuary in India.

Deaths:

Errol Flynn
Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
Big Bopper
Billie Holiday

I was born in 1985, lets see, what happened in 1985....

Oh yeah!!! Live Aid!!!!!! ;)There is more, but that was a good one for the year!!


Rio

I sat glued in front of the TV watching Live Aid except for the couple of hours that my mum threw me out of the house for to go and get some fresh air. (OK, she didn't literally throw me out!) :)

Absolutely Vile

1959

Eisenhower was president, and there was a lot of really crappy music on the charts. :P
:o :o :oa lot of "crappy" music???At least it was still rock and roll! ::)I was born in 1965,the yeare the riots went on.The Everly Brothers released "Gone Gone Gone'."Days of Our Lives" started.I can't think of anything else.Cheers! ::)

1963

Beatlemania hits the U.K. The Beatles, a British band composed of John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, take Britain by storm.

The Rolling Stones emerge as the anti-Beatles, with an aggressive, blues-derived style.

The sedative Valium (chlordiazepoxide) is developed by Roche labs.

Michael E. De Bakey implants artificial heart in human for first time at Houston hospital (April 21).

Best Picture Lawrence of Arabia

Technically, I really shouldn't be answering this question because it will really show my age.  :-[  I usually tell everyone I am 143-I lie about my age.  ;) But, this time I will. I was born in 1963-the major event of the year: What else? Kennedy being assassinated.



Cat


I'm right with ya Cat.  I was born the same year as you, 1963.  And I don't think anything earth shattering except JFK's assassination happened that year.

1969

First manned lunar landing! I was a couple of months old.

1969

First manned lunar landing! I was a couple of months old.



I was born just over a month after the lunar landing

I was born in 1963.

In that year it was a really cold winter in England, my parents told me they were snowbound for weeks that winter (I was born in January).


Maddog

when in January?  My oldest brother was born on the 13th that year.  Mum remembers having to push-start the car whilst it was snowing so she could go to hospital to have him.

karen

  Well in 1974 they tell me Michele Lee was an actress on Falcon Crest or Knot's Landing or something and I was in the hospital nursery with 7 kids called Michelle....And The Beatles didn't help this any.  But my mother says I was called this because my father is  J. Mitchell and I was first so it was the closest girl's name she could think of to name me after dad because she didn't want to name me Jamie. 
  Apparently 1974 was the same ol' thing in a different year that carried on the ideals of the decade.  The Beatles and the Stones still had big time momentum, but so did the blossoming beginnings of the surging era of disco, which included I think, the Bee Gees, their little bro Andy Gibb, and not disco bands like Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, The Who?
  And people were waiting and ready for the phenomenon a few years later called Star Wars.
OOH, and apparently discos were popular but so was roller skating.  Big cars were still popular, but they were on their way out with the political climate & tensions about the oil and petrol/gasoline reserves that caused the shortages years later.