What Happened The Year You Were Born?

[Forbidden Passions]

-<table width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td bgcolor=black align=center>
<font face=""Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:white; font-size: 14pt;'">
In 1965 (the year you were born)</font></td></tr>
<tr><td align=left bgcolor=white>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:black; font-size: 10pt;'>
Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US


Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara calls for a nationwide network of bomb shelters


Former leader of the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, is shot and killed in New York City


To protest voting rights discrimination, civil rights demonstrators begin a march for Selma to Montgomery with federal troop protection


The first commercial satellite, Early Bird, is launched into space by Nasa to transmit telephone and television signals


Voting Rights Act is signed into law


Riots by young blacks in the Watts area of Los Angeles begin, causing $200 million in damage


Hurricane Betsy claims 75 lives in southern Florida and Louisiana


United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address


Dr. Dre, Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Downey Jr., Shania Twain, Moby, and Ben Stiller are born


Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series


Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship


Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup


The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film


Dune by Frank Herbert is published


The Beatles' Rubber Soul is released


"Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones is a top hit


The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing songs from their new album Help!


Sony introduces the Betamax, a home video tape recorder


Nearly all of NBC's programs are now broadcast in color


I Dream of Jeannie premieres
</td></tr></table><div align=center>

<a href="http://www.blogthings.com/yearborn.html" target="_blank">
What Happened the Year You Were Born?</a>

<font color="#0000FF" size="1">[ June 18, 2006 10:07 AM: Message edited by: Forbidden Passions ]</font>

[ellanoize]

<table width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td bgcolor=black align=center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:white; font-size: 14pt;'>
In 1957 (the year you were born)</font></td></tr>
<tr><td align=left bgcolor=white>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:black; font-size: 10pt;'>
Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US


First civil rights bill since Reconstruction to protect blacks' voting rights is approved by Congress


Hurricane "Audrey" destroys Cameron, Louisiana killing 390 people


National Guardsmen bar nine black students from entering previously all white Central High School in Little Rock


Russians launch Sputnik I, first earth orbiting satellite


The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery


Vanna White, Osama bin Laden, Sid Vicious, and Melanie Griffith are born


Milwaukee Brewers win World Series


Detroit Lions win NFL championship


Montreal Canadiens win Stanley Cup


On the Road by Jack Kerouac is published


The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss is published
</td></tr></table><div align=center>

<a href="http://www.blogthings.com/yearborn.html">
What Happened the Year You Were Born?</a>

More cool things for your blog at
Blogthings</div>


Thats Why I'm an antique

[Cherry_pez]

<table width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td bgcolor=black align=center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:white; font-size: 14pt;'>
In 1967 (the year you were born)</font></td></tr>
<tr><td align=left bgcolor=white>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:black; font-size: 10pt;'>
Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US


President Johnson and Soviet premiere Aleksei Kosygin agree not to let any crisis push them into wore


Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice


The first home microwave is released by Amana


Dave Matthews, Kurt Cobain, Liz Phair, Vin Diesel, Julia Roberts, and Anna Nicole Smith are born


St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series


Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I


Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup


Disney's The Jungle Book and The Graduate are the top grossing films


One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published


Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have "dropped acid"


For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London


Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released


The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published


The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking
</td></tr></table><div align=center>

<a href="http://www.blogthings.com/yearborn.html">
What Happened the Year You Were Born?</a>

More cool things for your blog at
Blogthings</div>

[CDNRunaways Fan]

<table width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td bgcolor=black align=center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:white; font-size: 14pt;'>
In 1961 (the year you were born)</font></td></tr>
<tr><td align=left bgcolor=white>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:black; font-size: 10pt;'>
John F. Kennedy becomes president of the US


An estimated 1200 anti-Castro exiles aided by the US make a failed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs


Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first US spaceman rocketing 118 miles above the earth


Hurricane "Carla" wipes out Texas gulf cities, claiming 46 lives


Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned space flight


Wayne Gretzky, Henry Rollins, Fabio, George Clooney, Dennis Rodman, and Diana, Princess of Wales are born


New York Yankees win the World series


Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship


Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup


Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians is the top grossing film


Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is published


The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single
</td></tr></table><div align=center>

<a href="http://www.blogthings.com/yearborn.html">
What Happened the Year You Were Born?</a>

More cool things for your blog at
Blogthings</div>

[Canadianblueyes]

<table width=400 align=center border=1 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><td bgcolor=black align=center>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:white; font-size: 14pt;'>
In 1974 (the year you were born)</font></td></tr>
<tr><td align=left bgcolor=white>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style='color:black; font-size: 10pt;'>
Gerald Ford becomes president of the US


Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run to beat Babe Ruth's record


Impeachment hearings are opened against President Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee


President Nixon resigns


President Gerald Ford issues an unconditional pardon to ex-President Nixon for all federal crimes


Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round to regain the heavyweight crown in Zaire


Heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by and eventually joins the Symbionese Liberation Army


Dungeons & Dragons officially released


People magazine is published for the first time


Kate Moss, Alyson Hannigan, Penelope Cruz, Alanis Morissette, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ryan Seacrest are born


Oakland Athletics win the World Series


Miami Dolphins win Superbowl VIII


Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup


Blazing Saddles is the top grossing film


All the President's Men by Bernstein and Woodward is published


"Killing Me Softly With His Song" wins Grammy for song of the year
</td></tr></table><div align=center>

<a href="http://www.blogthings.com/yearborn.html">
What Happened the Year You Were Born?</a>

More cool things for your blog at
Blogthings</div>