What major event happened in the year you were born ?

[withdeanwombat]

London Olympics, Israel, Gandhi RIP.

Albion seek reelection to Div 3 south.

 

[vegster]

Very quiet year for me, little to report of interest.

 

[Box of Frogs]

Winston Churchill died

 

[Mileoakman]

3 weeks after I was born Germany surrendered. Not sure if there is any connection though.

 

[MJsGhost]

The first ever cellular mobile phone was introduced... The movies Grease & Night Fever released... ('78 was a slow year it would seem!)

Average house price in the UK was £13,650!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
Most Powerful Earthquake Ever Recorded Hits Chile
Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa
The Birth Control Pill Is Approved by the FDA

That's about it.

 

[BBassic]

'85 was a good year!

Creation of the domain name system
Back to the Future released
Super Mario Bros released
Windows 1.0 released
WrestleMania debuts

 

[SeagullSongs]

The Rwandan genocide, Nelson Mandela became President, Ayrton Senna died and the Channel Tunnel opened.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

1961 Kennedy Inaugurated

 

[Simster]

Mother Theresa and Princess Diana died and Albion drew away at Hereford.

I've never actually seen this with the Radio Sussex commentary:
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[daveinprague]

Newcastle won the FA cup.

 

[Official Old Man]

Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock was number 1 in the UK charts, god I must be old. By coincidence my mate was one of the last people to interview him. Haley was on tour in the UK but missed an appointment for the interview so when he got back to the USA he personally phoned my mate to do the interview.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Brazil won the World Cup, again

 

[LukeOwen]

Mother Theresa and Princess Diana died and Albion drew away at Hereford.

This

 

[Triggaaar]

Oh dear! End of the Second World War!

You were born in 1990?

QI:
Stephen
Buzzers. In which year did the second World War end?

Alan
[presses buzzer, which cuckoos]
[forcefully] 1945!

[Forfeit: Klaxons sound. Viewscreens flash the date "1945".]

Stephen
No! What a pity. Who was the war between and against?

Alan
Germany and Britain.

Stephen
Germany--

Alan
America and Japan . . .

Stephen
Now, what happened . . . What . . . There was a peace--

Alan
Accord.

Stephen
--Accord, of Paris--

Alan
Yes.

Stephen
--in 1947, but where was Germany? There was no Germany, was there?

Jeremy
Well, there was . . .

Stephen
There were two.

John
So it ended in 1990, when you unified Germany--

Stephen
--is the right answer. When Germany became one country again.

John
Yeah.

Stephen
The third of September, 1990. That is officially when the war ended against Germany, because Germany didn't exist until then again. I know it's weird, but it's technically true.


Stupid show

 

[BobbySmith]

Munich Air Disaster ......

 

[Phat Baz 68]

1968

1968 April 4th Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed by James Earl Ray

Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968

The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia and arrests President Dubcek

The Kray twins, arrested for the murders of George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie, members of the London underworld.

The Zodiac serial murderer begins his reign of terror in California

London Bridge sold for 1 million. and later re-erected in Arizona .

British Post office introduces First Class Post

Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated on June 5th by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles

Enoch Powell's delivers his "Rivers of Blood" anti immigration speech

Pope Paul VI bans Catholics from using the contraceptive pill for birth control.

Black power salute is seen on Television worldwide after the gold and bronze medalists in Olympics show salute during medal ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico

The Aswan Dam in Egypt is completed

Alec Rose completes his single-handed 354-day round-the-world trip

 

[Trevor]

I'm a believer - Monkees - number 1 in the charts

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Kennedy Assasinated. I was 2.5 months old so failed to pay much ettention to the coverage.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Brighton got to the FA Cup Final