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What events happened the year you were born.

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    #62
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    when the year of me happened, these were some things that also came about :D

    the top selling movie was topgun

    the best selling book was stephen kings IT

    spain and portugal entered the eu

    the video game of the day was arkanoid


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    #63
    Herb Powell
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    David Koresh and his followers said "Fucck tha police" and had a 50-day shootout.


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    #64
    ROCKMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭ROCKMAN


    Woodstock ..


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    #65
    KittyeeTrix
    Registered Users Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Man Utd was relegated in 1974..............As a City fan this makes the year I was born even more special:D


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    #66
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,163 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    British coal mines are nationalized. Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. The state of Prussia officially ceases to exist. Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely-reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggests the exchange of four million Hindus and Muslims between India and Pakistan. International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations. The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire opens in a Broadway theater. Mikhail Kalashnikov designs the AK-47 assault rifle.

    What a load of waffle to get to a bit of actual information. And the rather vague UFO reference was the Roswell Incident!


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    #67
    North_West_Art
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    Jim Morrison of the Doors died; The French Connection won an academy award; South tower of the World Trade Centre was completed


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    #68
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    The wheel was invented (by my dad nonetheless):cool:


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    #69
    positron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,295 ✭✭✭positron


    The year I was born, no one made others read stuff slowly, word by word, like a retard!

    Cool site though, and I read a lot of interesting stuff there, but now I can't remember.


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    #70
    Superbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    In 1994, books were still read regularly on paper, apparently.

    Imagine that!


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    #71
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,427 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    1965
    Jan: the Northern Irish Prime Minister meets the Taoiseach for the first time in 43 years.
    Feb: Ranger 8 crashes into the moon
    Mar: The US enters the Vietnam war for the first time
    April: The worlds first space nuclear reactor SNAP-10A launched by the US.
    May: Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of the re-match coined the Phantom Punch.
    June: Australia enters the Vietnam war.
    July: Bob Dylan causes controversy by going electric for the first time.
    Aug: Gemini 5 launched.
    Sept: Tensions rise between Pakistan and India within the borders.
    Oct: Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk due to Typhoon Carmen, 209 killed.
    Nov: US racer Craig Breedlove breaks the land speed record of 600.601 mph.
    Dec: The UK places an embargo against Rhodesia.

    Got a little carried away there, but it was interesting looking through the year I was born.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #72
    cabbage kid
    Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭cabbage kid


    Things that happened in 1993:
    DOOM
    Jurassic Park
    Schindler's List
    The European single market
    Some guy referenced Y2K
    Nelson Mandela got the Nobel Peace Prize


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