Still bored...soooooo

Mine just says:

1972 - Biginoil born.

Do I win £40?

1982...goth infects society.

Ironically, the Notorious BIG was born in the same year as me.

1936

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is president of the US

The Spanish Civil War begins

At the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, contrary to Hitler's theory of racial superiority

Boulder Dam (later to be called Hoover Dam) is completed

Dennis Hopper, Buddy Holly, and Mary Tyler Moore are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship

Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is published

In 1971 (the year you were born)

Richard Nixon is president of the US

Charles Manson and 3 of his followers are convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder

An earthquake in California's San Fernando Valley kills 64 people

New York Times begins publication of classified Pentagon papers on US involvement in Vietnam

The $70 million Kennedy Center opens in Washington, DC

A four day revolt at New York's Attica state prison ends after being stormed by 1000 state troopers

A new stock-market index called the Nasdaq debuts

Walt Disney World opens

Intel releases world's first microprocessor, the 4004

Ray Tomlinson sends the first e-mail

Libertarian party established in USA

Kid Rock, Denise Richards, Sean Astin, Winona Ryder, and Ricky Martin are born

Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series

Baltimore Colts win Superbowl V

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is published

The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour premeires on television

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel wins Grammy for song of the year

All in the Family premieres

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

http://www.blogthings.com/whathappenedtheyearyouwerebornquiz/

HMMMMMMMMM i see a lack of info on about 190 countries here.

which are of course merely tiny islands of the US coast

sigh

Doctor? wrote: HMMMMMMMMM i see a lack of info on about 190 countries here.

which are of course merely tiny islands of the US coast

sigh

Crikey.

If they included information about what happened in, say, Chad, Americans would complain that they don't want to read about those damn Frenchies.

This is the country, after all, where I was asked if I speak the language when I was planning my trip to England...

In 1974 (the year you were born) Gerald Ford becomes president of the US

Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run to beat Babe Ruth's record

Impeachment hearings are opened against President Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee

President Nixon resigns

President Gerald Ford issues an unconditional pardon to ex-President Nixon for all federal crimes

Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round to regain the heavyweight crown in Zaire

Heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by and eventually joins the Symbionese Liberation Army

Dungeons & Dragons officially released

People magazine is published for the first time

Kate Moss, Alyson Hannigan, Penelope Cruz, Alanis Morissette, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ryan Seacrest are born

Oakland Athletics win the World Series

Miami Dolphins win Superbowl VIII

Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup

Blazing Saddles is the top grossing film

All the President's Men by Bernstein and Woodward is published

"Killing Me Softly With His Song" wins Grammy for song of the year

United States recognizes 190 tiny islands as countries

Comrade Shampanyov wrote: Americans would complain that they don't want to read about those damn Frenchies.

The damn Frenchies...

In 1971 (the year you were born)

1er janvier : 1 833 supermarchés et hypermarchés en France. 7 janvier : Remaniement ministériel. Création du ministère de la Protection de la Nature et de l'Environnement. 4 février : Projet de décentralisation de l'ORTF. 9 mars : Meeting d'Ordre nouveau (New Order ? No, it is a right-wing movement), affrontements avec les gauchistes. 14-21 mars : Élections municipales. 23 mars : En accord avec la famille du général de Gaulle, un Comité National, dont la présidence est confiée - à la demande de la famille - à Henri Duvillard, alors ministre des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, est constitué en vue de l'érection à Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, dans le cadre choisi pour ses méditations par le général lui-même, d'un mémorial « à la mémoire du libérateur de la Patrie et du rénovateur de la République ». 5 avril : Publication dans le Nouvel Observateur du manifeste des 343 femmes en faveur de l'avortement, où 343 femmes du monde de l’art et des lettres revendiquent avoir eu recours à l’avortement. 11-13 juin : Congrès du Parti socialiste (PS) à Épinay : François Mitterrand en prend contrôle du nouveau parti socialiste. 19 juin : Jean-Paul Sartre est inculpé de diffamation contre la police. 28 juin : Le Conseil municipal de Paris décide l’aménagement des Halles et la démolition des pavillons créés par Baltard. 1er juillet : Le stationnement payant est instauré à Paris. 12 juillet : Début de la destruction des Halles de Paris. 16 juillet : Loi sur la formation permanente. 26 septembre : Élections sénatoriales favorables à la majorité. 9 octobre : Michel Poniatowski propose une grande fédération des centristes. 12 octobre : Georges Marchais présente un programme pour un gouvernement d'union populaire. 24 octobre : naissance de Jiphy. 28 octobre : Michel Debré, ministre de la Défense, prend la décision d'extension du camp militaire du Larzac 17 octobre : Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber devient président du Parti Radical. 6 novembre : Manifestation de 6 000 personnes à Millau contre l'extension du camp du Larzac. 23 novembre : le président Georges Pompidou accorde une grâce partielle à Paul Touvier, chef de la milice de Lyon, un événement qui passe d'abord inaperçu. 3 décembre : piratage d'un avion de la Pakistan International Airlines, le vol 711, à Orly, par l'aventurier Jean Kay, qui réclame l'envoi immédiat de médicaments au Bengladesh

If you are so bored, translate it in English !

In 1972 (the year you were born) Richard Nixon is president of the US

President Nixon approves NASA's space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft, at a cost of $5.5 billion

Nixon arrives in China for an 8 day visit, which he calls a "journey for peace"

While campaigning for the presidency Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is shot and seriously wounded

Five men are arrested in the Watergate office complex in DC for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee

Hurricane Agnes strikes the East Coast causing 117 deaths

First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) os introduced for $395

Shaquille O'Neal, Jennifer Garner, The Rock, The Notorious B.I.G., Cameron Diaz, Eminem, and Alyssa Milano are born

Oakland Athletics win the World Series

Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl VI

Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

The Godfather is the top grossing film

Pink Floyd debuts "The Dark Side of the Moon" during a performance at London's Rainbow Theater

"You've Got a Friend" by Carole King wins a Grammy for song of the year

The Price is Right premieres on CBS

Jiphy wrote: 1er janvier ...3 décembre

Sorry, pardner, I don't speak Uzbek...

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

Sorry, pardner, I don't speak Uzbek...

I begin to consider that Doctor?'s point of view about American people is not very far from truth...

Jiphy wrote:

Comrade Shampanyov wrote:

Sorry, pardner, I don't speak Uzbek...

I begin to consider that Doctor?'s point of view about American people is not very far from truth...

Satire. ;)

Pity there's no word in French for it.

:p

Be careful with this word. Satire is not satyre...

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: In 1969 (the year you were born)

New York Mets win the World Series

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

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ckin' A man........that's why I became a Mets fan

as for moi........in 1961

In 1961 (the year you were born) John F. Kennedy becomes president of the US

An estimated 1200 anti-Castro exiles aided by the US make a failed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first US spaceman rocketing 118 miles above the earth

Hurricane "Carla" wipes out Texas gulf cities, claiming 46 lives

Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned space flight

Wayne Gretzky, Henry Rollins, Fabio, George Clooney, Dennis Rodman, and Diana, Princess of Wales are born

New York Yankees win the World series

Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship

Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup

Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians is the top grossing film

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is published

The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single

In 1968 (the year you were born)

Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US

North Koreans seize USS Pueblo and 83 man crew in the Sea of Japan

Communist troops attack Saigon and 30 province capitals in the "Tet Offensive"

Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, TN

Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot in California after celebrating presidential primary victories

American troops destroy a town in South Vietnam in the "My Lai Massacre"

Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal

The United States Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency

Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university

LL Cool J, Lisa Marie Presley, Jeri Ryan, Lucy Lawless, Celine Dion, Traci Lords, Tony Hawk, Kylie Minogue, and Sammy Sosa are born

Detroit Tigers win the World Series

Green Bay Packers win Superbowl II

Montreal Canadians win the Stanley Cup

2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes are the top grossing movies

The rock musical Hair opens on Broadway

The Beatles' White Album and Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends are released

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, debuts on NBC

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1966

Laker Airways founded The Rolling Stones banned from 14 New York hotels Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow married Cassius Clay beats Henry Cooper Graham Hill wins Indy 500 at first attempt The first British credit card 'The Barclaycard' is introduced in the UK The Kray twins shoot George Cornell in the 'Blind Beggar Pub' Star Trek premiered on NBC Timothy Leary arrested on drugs charges...(never??!!)

o'yeah.....

England 1966

England pose proudly with the Jules Rimet trophy

A Geoff Hurst hat-trick helped England to win the World Cup for the only time in their history, beating West Germany 4-2 in an exciting final after extra-time. The England striker remains the only man to have scored three goals in a World Cup final.

Just altering it slightly

You're 40% Irish

You're probably less Irish than you think you are... But you're still more Irish than most.

How Irish Are You?

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Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US

President Johnson and Soviet premiere Aleksei Kosygin agree not to let any crisis push them into wore

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice

The first home microwave is released by Amana

Dave Matthews, Kurt Cobain, Liz Phair, Vin Diesel, Julia Roberts, and Anna Nicole Smith are born

St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series

Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I

Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

Disney's The Jungle Book and The Graduate are the top grossing films

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published

Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"

For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published

The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking

1966: Lesotho & Guyana gain their independence. Indira Gandhi becomes PM of India. France leaves NATO. South African PM Henrik Verwoerd is assassinated (by a poor white guy ~ ironically). John Fowles published "The Magus". And on the very day I was born Israeli tanks and planes attacked Jordan. Also, to my everlasting regret, a Russian linesman held England the world cup.

In 1981 (the year you were born)

Ronald Reagan becomes president of the US

Minutes after Ronald Reagan becomes president, Iran releases 52 American hostages that had been held captive for 444 days

President Reagan is shot in the chest by would be assassin John Hinkley

Space shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft, is sent into space

A suspended walkway in the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapses, killing 113

A female former lover files a "palimony" suit against tennis star Billie Jean King

President Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court

The Pac-Man video game is introduced in the US

Alicia Keys, Elijah Wood, Kelly Rowland, Anna Kournikova, and Britney Spears are born

Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series

Oakland Raiders win Superbowl XV

New York Islanders win the Stanley Cup

Raiders of the Lost Ark is the top grossing film

"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes spends the most time at the top of the US charts

MTV debuts on cable television, playing music videos 24 hours a day

Gimme a Break premieres

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nothing interesting there....except for raiders of the lost ark and the pac man video game being released in the u.s.

1963 (the year you were born)

In January, Johnny came home with a gift for me

Er, and that's about it really

Jiphy wrote: If you are so bored, translate it in English !

January 1: 1 833 supermarkets and hypermarkets in France. January 7: Cabinet reshuffle. Creation of the ministry for the Environment and Nature conservancy. February 4: Project of decentralization of the ORTF. March 9: Meeting of a new Nature (New Order? No, it is movement has right-wing), confrontations with the gauchists. March 14-21: Local elections. March 23: In agreement with the family of General de Gaulle, a National Committee, whose presidency is entrusted - at the request of the family - to Henri Duvillard, then Minister for Ex-serviceman and Victims of War, is made up in the sight of erection with Colombey-the-Two-Churches, within the framework chosen for its meditations by the General himself, of one memorial "to the memory of the liberator of the Fatherland and of renovating of the Republic". April 5: Publication in the New Observer of proclamation of the 343 women in favour of the abortion, where 343 society women of art and the letters assert to have had recourse to the abortion. June 11-13: Congress of the socialist Party (PS) with Épinay: François Mitterrand takes control of the new socialist party of it. June 19: Jean-Paul Sartre is accused of slandering against the police force. June 28: The Town council of Paris decides the installation of the Markets and the demolition of the houses created by Baltard. July 1: The paying parking is founded in Paris. July 12: Beginning of the destruction of the Markets of Paris. July 16: Law on continuing education. September 26: Senatorial elections favorable in the majority. October 9: Michel Poniatowski proposes a great federation of the centrists. October 12: George Marchais presents a program for a popular government of union. October 24: birth of Jiphy. October 28: Michel Debré, Minister for Defense, make the decision of extension of the military camp of Larzac October 17: Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber becomes president of the Radical Party. November 6: Demonstration of 6 000 people with Millau against the extension of the camp of Larzac. November 23: president George Pompidou grants a partial thanks to Paul Touvier, chief of the militia of Lyon, an event which passes initially unperceived. December 3: hacking of a plane of International Pakistan Airlines, flight 711, with Orly, by the adventurer Jean Kay, who claims the immediate sending of drugs in Bengladesh

"in the sight of erection" & "by the adventurer Jean Kay, who claims the immediate sending of drugs in Bengladesh" WTF?

Very good work. But Epernay and Millau are towns, not people.

In 1986 (the year you were born)

Ronald Reagan is president of the US

The US officially observes Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday for the first time

The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after lift off, killing 6 astronauts and a teacher

A major nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union

Japanese video game maker Nintendo introduces its games to America

US warplanes bomb Libyan headquarters in retaliation for terrorist attacks

The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station

IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer

Charlotte Church, The Olsen twins, and Lindsay Lohan are born

New York Mets win the World Series

Chicago Bears win Superbowl XX

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Top Gun is the top grossing film

"That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne & Friends spends the most time at the top of the US charts

ALF, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse premiere

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***In 1964 (the year you were born)***

Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US

After riots break out, Panama suspends relations with he US

Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion when Sonny Liston throws in the towel in the sixth round in Miami Near Anchorage, the strongest earthquake ever to strike North America kills 117

Worst soccer disaster in history occurs when rioting and panic kills over 300 in Liverpool

Hundreds of white college students work for civil rights in the south during "Freedom Summer"

South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison

Kemeny and Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language

Nicolas Cage, Jeff Bezos, Rob Lowe, Elle Macpherson, Courteney Cox Arquette, and Keanu Reeves are born

St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series

Cleveland Browns win the NFL championship

Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles released in the US, sparking Beatlemania

The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, breaking television ratings records

The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television

Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film

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