So what were the big NEWS STORIES the year you were born ?

[wunt be druv]

They didn’t actually get there although the bases were built. President Kennedy said it would be an act of war between the USSR and the USA, Khrushchev backed down and turned the ships around, averting a nuclear war, if he had not, none of us would probably be here now!!

Sorry I got it wrong,can`t say I remember it too well as I was very young at the time.

 

[Chris_Highwind]

1990 - Liverpool won their last league title, Man U beat Palace in the FA Cup final, England had a semi decent world cup, euro ban from Heysel gets lifted, quite a good year for English footie!
Outside of footie, Thatcher is forced to resign, Saddam Hussein is being a bit of a dick and the first ever poundland opens!

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Stretch Armstrong & Buzz Lightyear touched down on the moon, 1969

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Did my actual day (28-09-64)... boring news day really!

Harpo Marx died
THE TRICOLOUR RIOTS. RIOTING and terror returned to the City of Belfast
Paul Jewell born
Midlands Today born
Warren commission ruled Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK
Episode 396 of Coronation Street!

 

[albionalbino]

England won the World Cup. The breathalyzer is introduced. Walt Disney dies.

 

[Simster]

1971 for me also, and Wikipedia has just informed me that Henrik Larsson is 5 days older than me, which is nice.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

I was one day old when Sandie Show won Eurovision with Puppet on a String. I know my mother watched it.

 

[bpbill]

The Great Train Robbery, I was 5 days old.

Hey hey hey and so was I . Watch out for memory loss I had an argument with the wife yesterday about how old I was, worse thing is she was right and I was wrong

You two are REALLY old!

11 days older than you and don't you forget it sonny.

 

[Braders]

Band Aid.

 

[withdeanwombat]

Terry Pratchett gatecrashes my birthday.

Ghandi is assassinated,Israel is born again,the Cleveland Browns end their season undefeated.









Albion end their season having to apply for re-election to the league,possibly a closer call than Hereford.

 

[Silent Bob]

Hurricane, general election, I dunno what else.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Apparently ... "What important news happened on April 12 1962?: the first man was sent into space"

Good ol' Yuri !!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Without even looking it up, I believe it was one of the hottest, driest years on record...drought orders in place, lakes drying up, standpipes in the street, feeding ice lollies to the polar bears at London Zoo etc.

It seems to have become the standard by which all other hot years are measured...can you tell what it is yet?

Was it 1796 ?

 

[Pbseagull]

Just bung the year into Wiki and have a sniff.

1971

A tsunami 85 m high rises over the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. It throws a 750-ton block of CORAL 2.5 km inland.

Disneyworld opens in Florida.

A law is passed in Peru legalising the rape of dwarves on their birthdays.

1963:
Great Train Robbery
Hurricane Flora kills 7,000 in Haiti/Dominican Republic
Lamborghina Founded
Vietnam War begins
Alcatraz Closes
Valentina Terashkova becomes first woman in space
Dartford Tunnel opens
Martin Luther King "I have a Dream" speech
Beatles release first album - Please Please me
Buddy Rogers first WWF champion
JFK assassination

 

[saslowi]

D-Day landing in Normandy.

 

[Matrix10]

Sorry I got it wrong,can`t say I remember it too well as I was very young at the time.

No criticism intended, it just awoke memories of that time, I was 15 then, and remember wondering if this was going to be the end. It came so close to WW3 and if it had, Great Britain would have been annihilated with both President Kennedy and Khrushchev playing poker with everyone’s lives. I remember the relief of the whole country felt when the ships carrying the missiles turned round. Of the historical events in my life involving real life tension and drama this and the ill fated Apollo 13 mission probably stand out the most.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Churchill's funeral
Bloody Sunday in the US
Start of the Vietman war
First skateboard championships
First space walk
Cigarette advertising banned on UK TV
Tom & Jerry debuts
Ian Brady arrested
Post Office tower opens
Pilsbury Doughboy created
A Charlie Brown Christmas is first aired (one of my favourite films)
World Population: 3.3bn (now 6.97bn)

 

[pasty]

Churchill's funeral
Bloody Sunday in the US
Start of the Vietman war
First skateboard championships
First space walk
Cigarette advertising banned on UK TV
Tom & Jerry debuts
Ian Brady arrested
Post Office tower opens
Pilsbury Doughboy created
A Charlie Brown Christmas is first aired (one of my favourite films)
World Population: 3.3bn (now 6.97bn)

And

February 6 – Sir Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days.

February 9 - Pasty born

 

[Shirty]

1972: Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.

and probably some other stuff too.

 

[Pbseagull]

11 days older than you and don't you forget it sonny.

I was 78 day old, but don't remember reading about it at the time