The year you were born...

[Roger7pball]

1986 - Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded

[Pumps4ever]

The 70's, Shit was good...

[cheapguitarscheapthrills]

1991 the Soviet Union disbanded, in turn the end of the Cold war. For bonus points my birthday is 9/11 but I can't think of anything important that happened then 🙃

[William the Third]

1984…where do I begin? Gremlins, This is Spinal tap, Ghostbusters, the Terminator, Karate Kid, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom….the list goes on…

All I can say is that the world got way cooler in January of 1984…you are welcome 😉

There is also a very famous instruction manual book about our year too!

[Chuck E Ducky]

Big Brother Is Watching You…

[William the Third]

Good news is that I'm an exhibitionist, and masturbate frequently.

[MarkT]

On the day I was born the U.S. launched its first communication satellite to celebrate the magnificence that is me.

[cougar20th]

1980 for me

This was released

[The Last Snood]

One of my favorite video games, Ms. Pac-Man is better but I always get pumped finding a Pac-Man arcade cabinet or the cocktail tables.

[Walker]

1955:


January 22 – The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) armed with nuclear weapons.

February 12 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.

March 9 – Claudette Colvin, a fifteen-year-old African-American girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards whilst being kicked and handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.

April 15 – Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois.

May 9 – A young Jim Henson introduces the earliest version of Kermit the Frog (made in March), in the premiere of his puppet show Sam and Friends, on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.

June 16 – Lady and the Tramp premieres in Chicago. It is the first animated film distributed by Disney's own Buena Vista Film Distribution and the first filmed in CinemaScope widescreen.

July 17 - The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering Arco, Idaho, from the National Reactor Testing Station; on July 18, Schenectady, New York, receives power from a prototype nuclear submarine reactor at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.

August 1 – The prototype Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft first flies, in Nevada.

September 30 – Film actor James Dean, aged 24, is killed when his Porsche 550 Spyder collides with another automobile at a highway junction near Cholame, California.

October 4 – The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series in baseball, defeating the New York Yankees 2–0 in Game 7 of the 1955 Fall Classic.

November 5 – Racial segregation is forbidden on trains and buses in U.S. interstate commerce.

December 22 – Cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes (46).

[The Last Snood]

July 17th 1955: also Disneyland opens

[homerj]

1974. Nixon resigned & somebody named Jenna Jameson was born. I’m not at all familiar with her work but i understand she’s an actress of some sort.

[coyote]

1970
Elvis visited the Nixon Whitehouse.
The Beatles broke up.
Dianna Ross leaves the Supremes.
Simon and Garfunkel split.
Mountain and Black Sabbath release their first albums.
Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin OD and die.
Aerosmith, Earth Wind and Fire, Derek and the Dominos, and Wild Cherry are formed.
Epic big block studtastic American muscle cars began to decline.
The Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Orioles, and NY Knicks won titles.
Vince Lombardi, Charles DeGaul, and Gypsy Rose Lee died.
Saturday Night Live and Americas top 40 debut.

[DocsMachine]

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Not sure much of anything important happened after that.

Doc.

[coyote]

You are older than I thought.

[latches109]

wow start of ww1, you don't look day past 29

[NONOBLITUS]

Damn learned some stuff.
1972
Ground troops pulled out of Vietnam and the peace talks began after final bombing in December.
The Godfather movie came out
Atari was formed and released Pong the first video game
The Watergate scandal happened
The F15 was introduced
The Miami Dolphins went undefeated which still stands as the only team in NFL history

Cool looking at a video to see that stuff I truly had no idea about the exact dates except the war stuff.
Oh and of course my birth.

[BLachance75]

Ronald Reagan won the presidential election on my birthday

[Reflex0283]

housing crisis made economy implode

[William the Third]

And now I feel old...

[Painthappy]

Carter was born. Oh and Captain and Tennille had their number one hit. So there's that too.

[Dkg_PB]

1996- the cowboys won the superbowl