Topic: What was happening the year you were born?

[Doris_Pinks]

I thought this was of interest......Cuba Missile Crisis and Kennedy was President the year I was born...........and Moonriver (one of my Dad's fave songs) was the song of the year!


THIS IS INTERESTING........   
Click on the year you were born and read the news for that year
                   
                  _1900_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1900.html )
                  _1901_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1901.html )
                  _1902_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1902.html )
                  _1903_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1903.html )
                  _1904_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1904.html )
                  _1905_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1905.html )
                  _1906_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1906.html )
                  _1907_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1907.html
                  _1908_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1908.html )
                  _1909_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1909.html )
                  _1910_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1910.html)
                  _1911_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1911.html )
                  _1912_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1912.html )
                  _1913_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1913.html )
                  _1914_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1914.html )
                  _1915_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1915.html )
                  _1916_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1916.html )
                  _1917_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1917.html )
                  _1918_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1918.html )
                  _1919_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1919.html )
                  _1920_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1920.html )
                  _1921_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1921.html )
                  _1922_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1922.html )
                  _1923_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1923.html )
                  _1924_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1924.html )
                  _1925_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1925.html )
                  _1926_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1926.html )
                  _1927_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1927.html )
                  _1928_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1928.html )
                  _1929_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1929.html )
                  _1930_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1930.html )
                  _1931_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1931.html )
                  _1932_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1932.html )
                  _1933_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1933.html )
                  _1934_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1934.html )
                  _1935_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1935.html )
                  _1936_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1936.html )
                  _1937_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1937.html )
                  _1938_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1938.html )
                  _1939_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1939.html )
                  _1940_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1940.html )
                  _1941_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1941.html )
                  _1942_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1942.html )
                  _1943_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1943.html )
                  _1944_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1944.html )
                  _1945_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1945.html )
                  _1946_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1946.html )
                  _1947_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1947.html )
                  _1948_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1948.html )
                  _1949_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1949.html )
                  _1950_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1950.html )
                  _1951_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1951.html )
                  _1952_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1952.html )
                  _1953_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1953.html )
                  _1954_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1954.html )
                  _1955_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1955.html )
                  _1956_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1956.html )
                  _1957_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1957.html )
                  _1958_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1958.html )
                  _1959_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1959.html )
                  _1960_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1960.html )
                  _1961_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1961.html )
                  _1962_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1962.html )
                  _1963_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1963.html )
                  _1964_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1964.html )
                  _1965_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1965.html )
                  _1966_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1966.html )
                  _1967_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1967.html )
                  _1968_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1968.html )
                  _1969_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1969.html )
                  _1970_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1970.html )
                  _1971_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1971.html )
                  _1972_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1972.html )
                  _1973_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1973.html )
                  _1974_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1974.html )
                  _1975_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1975.html )
                  _1976_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1976.html )
                  _1977_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1977.html )
                  _1978_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1978.html )
                  _1979_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1979.html )
                  _1980_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1980.html )
                  _1981_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1981.html )
                  _1982_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1982.html )
                  _1983_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1983.html )
                  _1984_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1984.html )
                  _1985_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1985.html )
                  _1986_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1986.html )
                  _1987_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1987.html )
                  _1988_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1988.html )
                  _1989_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1989.html )
                  _1990_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1990.html )
                  _1991_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1991.html )
                  _1992_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1992.html )
                  _1993_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1993.html )
                  _1994_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1994.html )
                  _1995_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1995.html )
                 _1996_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1996.html )
                  _1997_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1997.html )
                  _1998_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1998.html )
                  _1999_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/1999.html )
                  _2000_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/2000.html )
                  _2001_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/2001.html )
                  _2002_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/2002.html )
                  _2003_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/2003.html )
                  _2004_ ( http://www.infoplease.com/year/2004.html )
                  _2005_ (http://www.infoplease.com/year/2005.html )
                  _2006_  (http://www.infoplease.com/year/2006.html )

[tonybloke]

the yanks were interfering in the middle east!
!Eisenhower orders US Marines into Lebanon at request of President Chamoun, who fears overthrow (July 15).
somethings never change :(

[davee52uk]

I am as old as China - the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949

[tim]

SO glad the 18th Amendment didn't apply here!

And shame - I LOVED India as it was.

Versailles Treaty, incorporating Woodrow Wilson's draft Covenant of League of Nations, signed by Allies and Germany; rejected by U.S. Senate.

18th Amendment (Prohibition) adopted. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

Mahatma Gandhi initiates Satyagraha campaigns, beginning his nonviolent resistance movement against British rule in India.

[shirlton]

Hitler commited suicide and the UN was established. Americans dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima

[Larkshall]

Start of the great depression (Wall Street Crash), history repeating itself?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

the LA Dodgers beat the Chicago White Sox 4 - 2 in the World Series of course  ???, and Quasimodo won the Nobel Prize for literature  ???

[SMP1704]

Winston Churchill died and My Fair Lady won an oscar for best picture.

[M.S.gardener]

How come you lot get a real moment in history and i get rocky was made agatha christy dies and pol pot becomes leader of cambodia ;)

joe

[saddad]

Welcome to the site MS Gardener... you must just be too young!!  ::)
I've got the building of the Berlin Wall and the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba

[Trevor_D]

I'm the same age as "Oklahoma" & the Pentagon! (And they're still going strong!)

And I also found out a few years back that the day I was born Olivier was filming the Battle of Agincourt sequence for his film of "Henry V". (And they celebrated my first birthday - well, the day after - by invading Normandy!)

[woodybrown]

England won the world cup when i was born, shame i dont bring good luck like that to arsenal lol.

[nilly71]

Thanks for the link :)

share my birthday 2nd June with Tarzan ;D

Thomas Hardy
novelist (1840)

Sir Edward William Elgar
composer (1857)

Johnny Weissmuller

1953
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

Jim Morrison died the same year as my birth.

Neil

[Trevor_D]

Another Gemini!

[hopalong]

I was born in the year of the last London Olympics (1948).  They did things more economically then.  Athletes had to travel to events by public transport and bring their own towels.  Those were the days!