What World Events Occurred In The Year of Your Birth?

1986:
Celtics beat Rockets 4-2 in the NBA Finals

 

there sure are a bunch of '82 babies posting in here. i've counted 5 so far.

 

On my birthday in history,

660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, opens.
1794 - First session of United States Senate open to the public.
1826 - University College London is founded under the name University of London.1861 - American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor is born (d. 1931)
1921 - Lloyd Bentsen, American politician is born (d. 2006)
1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor is born
1934 - Tina Louise, American actress is born
1936 - Burt Reynolds, American actor is born
1938 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general is born
1938 - BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., which coined the term "robot".
1941 - First Gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 - World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1962 - Sheryl Crow, American musician is born
1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres.
1964 - Ken Shamrock, American martial artist is born
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress is born
1971 - Eighty-seven countries, including the US, UK, and USSR, sign the Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
1973 - Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1976 - Lee J Cobb, American actor died (b. 1911)
1978 - Censorship: the People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
1986 - Frank Herbert, American author died (b. 1920)
1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
1990 - Buster Douglas KO's "Iron" Mike Tyson in Tokyo, Japan.

 

1967

The Doors' debut album was released.
Israel fought The Six Day War with its neighbors.
Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American on the Supreme Court.
The Beatles released Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
John McCain was shot down in Vietnam.
The first heart transplant was performed.
Che Guevara was executed.

 

Yeah, holy f@ck I gotta watch my language around this place!

 

1988

Born:
Greg Oden
Kevin Durant
Rihanna

Died:
Enzo Ferrari
Roy Orbison

June 5 - The first National Cancer Survivors Day is held.

August 9 - The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field, defeating the New York Mets, 6–4.

August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.

September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

November 8 - United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.

November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46.

December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed.

 

April 18th

San Francisco Earthquake



Yankee Stadium opened too.

 

Uh, that's my year buddy. Not yours.

July 20, 1984 - Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse published nude photos of her.

 

^^ hey thats my year too!!

1984

- 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Useless facts:

- The first MTV video Music awards are celebrated
- Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in "Penthouse" magazine.

 

I now know how my parents feel when I talk about things that happened around and before my birth.

You people are making me feel old. I was in middle school watching when Challenger exploded. I watched actual videos on MTV, before the invention of Real World ruined the network, and I distinctly remember Greg Louganis winning a couple of medals in the 1984 Olympics and in 1988 hitting his head on the board.

The fact that some of yall weren't even born then makes me feel really really old.