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What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:07 pm
by Footy Chick
This is really quite interesting!

http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

The screen is going to fade to black, follow the instructions below.
You'll be pleasantly surprised with this one... Type the year only!! Then click the question (?) mark!
Sit back and enjoy!!
:D

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:15 pm
by CENTURION
I was born 22/11/1963, the same day that J.F.K. was assassinated.

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:26 pm
by mighty_tiger_79
not bad :lol:

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:31 pm
by CK
CENTURION wrote:I was born 22/11/1963, the same day that J.F.K. was assassinated.


Coincidence, Centurion?
:D :D

Not sure about this, FC. It doesn't mention either of us as significant births by name, for one ;)

Kudos to mentioning The Eagles and Pink Floyd, though.

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 1:45 pm
by kicks.like.a.girl
Wow... my year was epic :roll:

The leaning tower of Pisa was closed due to public safety concerns... AND...

Nintendo releases the NES game Super Mario Bros.. number 3, haha :-bd

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:19 pm
by GWW
These are the ones i'm familiar with for 1972

- USSR beat USA to win Gold in Mens Basketball at Munich Olympics
- North beat Port for 2nd consecutive year in SANFL grand final :(
- Malcolm Blight won Magarey Medal
- ALP's "Its Time" tv ads
- Plane crash that was the basis for movie "Alive" occurred on my birthday - 13/10/72

edit: I think Watergate happened in '72 too.

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:21 pm
by Media Park
1987... Notable for:

My birth.

Just kidding, I'll check later... ;)

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:12 pm
by BIG SEXY
apparently there was an unusually fat and ugly baby born in the same hospital as me on the same day

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:32 pm
by Thiele
There was no SAFOOTY, Yahoo or Goggle in 1979

Top movie was Kramer vs Kramer

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:45 pm
by Footy Chick
Thiele wrote:There was no SAFOOTY, Yahoo or Goggle in 1979

Top movie was Kramer vs Kramer


But there was Boggle :lol:

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:50 pm
by mighty_tiger_79
Thiele wrote:There was no SAFOOTY, Yahoo or Goggle in 1979

Top movie was Kramer vs Kramer


how could you forget Mother Theresa winning the nobel peace price

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:51 pm
by BoundaryRider84
GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:57 pm
by JAS
wow does it actually end...sorry I gave up after about 10 minutes when it started randomly jumping from when I was 15 then 9 then 8 then 15 again then back to 1961.

What I remember it listing would be...

Bay of Pigs
101 Dalmations top selling movie
West side Story winning the Best Film Oscar
Best Actor was Maximillian Schell for Judgement At Nuremberg
Invention of optical discs
Vietnam War still going on
Algeria war ending
B-52 with 2 nukes crashed in N. Carolina
Dylan hitchhiking to New York
George Blake gets 42 years for spying

So it's been pretty much downhill ever since then :? :lol:

Regards
JAS

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:58 pm
by Media Park
Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished.

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:03 pm
by JAS
Media Park wrote:Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished.


Now I feel old...I used to date someone who spent a tour of duty guarding him in Spandau.

Regards
JAS

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:29 pm
by GWW
Spandau Prison - a great band from the 80's took its name from that :)

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:43 pm
by redandblack
JAS wrote:
Media Park wrote:Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished.


Now I feel old...I used to date someone who spent a tour of duty guarding him in Spandau.

Regards
JAS


You're feeling old :shock:

I looked up mine and it said Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated ;)

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:02 pm
by LMA
Elvis the Pelvis enjoyed his last cheeseburger, Uh huh huh
Star Wars released

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 7:34 pm
by fish
Centrals entered the SANFL and South won a Premiership!

Re: What happened in your birth year?

PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:02 pm
by The Sleeping Giant
- Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes president of Uganda.

- Charles Manson, Leslie van Houten, Sadie Atkins and Patty Krenwinkel are sentenced to death for the Tate/LaBianca murders.

- Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections.

- A fire in a mental hospital at Burghölzli, Switzerland, kills 28 people.

- President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.

- Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France.

- During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again

- The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert. The event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".

- A Clockwork Orange is released.

- The Who "Who's Next" released.

- Pink Floyd "Meddle" released.

- North Adelaide premiers.