I don't know what the interest would be, however I found this kinda cool!

This link will provide you with a site, wherein you click the year you were born (sorry for those born prior to 1900), and it will give a summary of significant events!

Okay, just maybe I am trying to get out of 1st gear..............

http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html

 

Neat!

I was born in the year the U.S. put its first man in Earth orbit!

 

I was born the year Bonnie and Clyde were killed by Lawman in La. and
John Dillenger was killed out side a theater in Chicago. That was a long time ago!!

 

I was born the year it was figured out you could use the skin from naugahs, and get naugahyde, which today MINI calls leatherette

Mark

 

Gosh, you learn something new every day! I had never heard of naugahyde---just read up on it on Wikipedia.

C'mon folks, share the strangest/most interesting thing about the year you were born!

 

1978--
Went through three Popes, finally with JP II taking the hat.

Jim Jones's suicide pact.

First introduction of the Sony Walkman.

Norman Rockwell passes away.

 

1962

Cuba Missile Crisis & Marilyn Monroe dies

 

1959

Alaska and Hawaii become our 49th and 50th states and our good buddy, Fidel Castro assumes power in Cuba (thereby making raft building that nations biggest past time).

And the movie, "Some Like it HOT!"

 

The dinosaurs were around the year I was born

Lois

 

A permanent artificial heart is implanted in a human for first time.

 

exxon valdez oil spill ..and San Fransisco earthquake 7.1 on richter scale.

what a boring year to be born

 

Motion picture rating system of G, PG, R, and X debuts.

St Louis in both the World Series and Stanley Cup playoffs. Unfortunately, they lost both.

 

Are you kidding me!?!?!

You are old enough to drive? I guess I am getting old!!

You are lucky! I hope you enjoyed that earth quake!

 

St Louis in both the World Series and Stanley Cup playoffs. Unfortunately, they lost both.[/quote]


Miska,

I have never been kicked in the lunch box with such force before!!! Did you play soccer in high school?

 

Let's start with D-Day, a month before I was born.
St. Louis Cardinals vs St. Louis Browns in the world series.............Cards win!
Still one of my favorite movies, Casablanca. won theAcademy Award, Best Picture.
And last but not least...................dirt was invented.
Cheers,

 

The St. Louis Hawks defeated Boston in the NBA championships. I didn't know we ever had a NBA team.

 

OK, I got's more goodies from 55, yeah with 19 first.

Scrabble debuts as a board game.
RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer.
McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks.
Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan .
1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced.
Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey and Iraq a defense alliance.
1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith.
Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw
Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance.
1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent.
Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal.
Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums".
Cy Young died.
1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service.
Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances.
"Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US.
U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan.
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3.
Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois.
1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed.
"Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1022 performances.
Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0).
Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive home runs of at least 463'.
Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th.
Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities.
Stan Musial hits his 300th HR.
Bill Haley and Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1.

OK, that up to June of the year, more later

Mark

 

haha yes indeed, i'm 19.
You're a year older than my 'rents

i feel young

 

Humphrey Bogart died and Leave It to Beaver began

 

So there is reincarnation !?

 

but which did he return as?

 

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the #1 song in my year...

 

""Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the #1 song in my year..."

I use to play that song on a guitar! Now who is older?

 

I think the resemblance is very clear! The Beeev, of course!

 

"Stan Musial hits his 300th HR."

Hey Mark,

Do you buy green bananas?


Ah heck, you don't eat bananas! I forgot!

It's popcorn! --------->

There is something about these stupid smiley faces that make the forum kinda fun!!! LOL