Your Birth Year (this is kinda cool)

[cincygreg]

Check and see what historical things happened in the year of your birth.

The link is to 1967 (my year of birth, but you can check any year)

CHECK YOUR BIRTHYEAR

Kinda [img]cool.gif[/img] to see what scientific findings occured, who was President, What movies were released, which teams won the championshjips in their respective sports, who won the Nobel prize....

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[Lew]

I know "Bridge Over Toubled Water" was the #1 song when I was born. Of course, it should have been "Bad to the Bone", since that song was written with people like me in mind....

[Raven Soul]

Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).


US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).


Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).


Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).


"Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).


Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

US GDP (1998 dollars): $2,291.40 billion
Federal spending: $458.75 billion
Federal debt: $776.6 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $15,064
Consumer Price Index: 65.2
Unemployment: 6.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.13 ($0.15 as of 5/29/78)

Super Bowl
Dallas d. Denver (27-10)

World Series
NY Yankees d. LA Dodgers (4-2)

NBA Championship
Washington Bullets d. Seattle (4-3)

Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Boston (4-2)

Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert (2-6 6-4 7-5)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. Connors (6-2 6-2 6-3)

Kentucky Derby Champion
Affirmed

NCAA Basketball Championship
Kentucky d. Duke (94-88)

NCAA Football Champions
Alabama (AP, FW, NFF) (11-1-0) & USC (UPI) (12-1-0)

World Cup
Argentina d. Holland (3-1)