What major event happened in the year you were born ?

[brakespear]

1970, so this thread was posted for the first time ever

 

[Mowgli37]

I bet you're dad had no nails left waiting for you to come along and watching that game. I take it he's a BHA fan.

Actually he was put off football for life after a dreadful, rain sodden 0-0 at Stamford Bridge against Sheffield Wednesday in the 60s!! Only recently has he begun to come to the occasional Brighton game.

Jesus wept, I've got pairs of pants older than you!

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

The Albion signed a certain Ernest James Langley from Leeds Utd.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first successful climbers of Mt Everest who made it back.
A rather insignificant publication appeared in the journal Nature - "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid".

 

[theboybilly]

Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile
Hungary 7 England 1
Hancock's Half-Hour first aired

1954

 

[cloud]

The M1 was completed
The Krays were arrested
Abortion was legalised
The Ford Escort was introduced

 

[jakarta]

JFK became President of the USA but more importantly the first Coronation Street was shown.

 

[Leighgull]

Summer of Love.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston

I was born in this year, I have just been reading about Cassius Clay.

 

[Mowgli37]

I find it mildly depressing that I was 13 when all that happened, 17 years ago....I feel old.

I feel old thinking about things that happened in the 2000s, I dread to think what I'll be like at your age!!

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

World Trade Center bomb
Single Market created.

 

[dje shoreham]

Cuban missile crisis.

3 years earlier for me but related -Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba

Good thread!

 

[Creaky]

Wolves beat Leicester in the FA cup

Old Trafford reopens after a rebuild following bomb damage

Legal Aid introduced in the UK

1949

 

[Cappers]

Eric Cantona was born. What an enigma he was, what a performance at Palace

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Jesus wept, I've got pairs of pants older than you!

Perhaps you could do with a tidy up of your pants drawer

 

[Lethargic]

Churchill dies.
Stanley Mathews plays his last pro game at 50
The Sound of Music is released
US troops deployed in Vietnam
The Watts riot (start the day I was born)
Post office tower opens.

 

[Worthingite]

Villa won the European Cup
The Mary Rose was raised
Chariots of Fire was released
The Barbican Centre was opened

......It was too easy to say the Falklands!!!!

 

[Everest]

President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
John F. Kennedy succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States of America.
The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club.
The Soviet submarine K-19 reactor leak occurs in the North Atlantic.
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.

 

[Boys 9d]

Battles of El Alamein and Midway plus the start of the Siege of Stalingrad. three events that changed the course of World War 2.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

London Olympics

 

[16bha]

Woodstock, Moon landings (possibly?) and Concorde takes to the skies.