What happened in history 10 years before you were born?

Guess I totally screwed that one up..

other important things..

-Complete Withdrawl of US Troops from Vietnam

-CAT Scan Invented

-Sears Tower Completed

-President Salvador Allende of Chile Killed in (US?) Coup

 

Concorde (first supersonic airliner) makes first commercial flights.

Viking 1 and probes land on Mars and beam back photographs.

US bicentennial (200 years since independence).

Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, dies.

 

Civil Rights movement. Being born in 1969, I had know idea about black suppression in the South until I was way older. I never realized that their were separate bathrooms in Houston. Always seemed far removed when it really wasn't.

 

You got different years going here. Allende was killed in 1973 while the final U.S. troops in Vietnam returned in 1975.

 

Actually, Charles Barkley was born 9 years before me to the day; Feb. 20th.

 

US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment (July 3).

1976

 

it would be 1973. somebody else can do the research.

 

well, here is a good one.


US bombing of Cambodia ends, marking official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia (Aug. 15).


US Supreme Court rules on Roe v. Wade.

 

1971 - the horrible decade of the 70's gets one year closer to ending.



and about segregation, it is amazing how recent it was without seeming like it. i remember my dad talking about how as a kid they would go to restaurants and see "reserved" (for blacks) sections. i mean, in my lifetime the notion that that could be allowed just seems beyond ridiculous and yet it was real and present only a generation before me.

 

No kidding, that was some strange stuff. I moved to Memphis in 1981. Before then, I had lived in Virginia where most people were white, but if you weren't it wasn't a big deal. The black family we knew was just like everyone else but with different skin. Then, when you got to Memphis, different world. Race was supposed to mean something. The population was 50/50 - you would think everyone would be used to each other - but you sensed a lot of awkwardness and tension.

But you look back and realize that, as much as it may not have been evident in the 80's, our parents grew up with segregation. There were still a lot of hurt feelings and mistrust. I just wonder how on earth all that stuff could have been allowed in the first place... separate seats, restrooms, schools... it's not like you're going to get cooties from people of another race.

 

Keyshawn Johnson is exactly 10 years older than I am
There was the '72 olympics and all that ensued there
HBO was broadcast, it was the first pay cable network
The end of the Apollo missions, last manned moon landing (Apollo 17)
The CD was developed by RCA
Video discs were introduced by Philips
Electronic mail was introduced
Prozac was developed
Watergate
Cabaret
The Godfather
Deliverance

 

Ten years before I was born WWII began... for the United States.

 

Important events:

Lindbergh baby is kidnapped

Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic

FDR defeats Hoover to become President

Babe Ruth called his shot in World Series

Adolf Hitler becomes the Nazi Party candidate for President in Germany

The Great Depresssion

 

The internet lied to me.

 

LOL! I just spotted this.

 

Aug. 3, 1958

The nuclear powered submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water.