Today's my Birthday - Let's Play a Game!

My goodness, I'm 48 years old today!!!

I've done a walk down memory lane and, for the whole mile long stroll you can check out my journal entry for today but I thought it would be neat if everyone could tell us one or two things that occurred the year they were born.  (Don't forget to tell us the year).

I'll start with, 1959:

Barbie made her debut in April 1959 to the delight of little girls everywhere!

Bonanza debuts on TV

Well, one I can think of without looking it up is:

Elvis kicked the bucket.

Happy Birthday!

In 1975, NASA launched Viking 1 Planetary Probe Towards Mars
Also in 1975, the Rocky Horror Picture Show opened in New York with 4 performances :)
(I Love you Wikipedia ;D)

I love the Rocky Horror Picture Show!

1981

- MTV airs for the first time
- Prince Charles and Princess Diana get hitched
- Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman appointed US Supreme Court Justice
- Natalie Wood drowned

That's all I know off the top of my head

Happy Birthday lornajean!

1981 - was the birth of my first child

1979 Sports Junkie:

- Pittsburgh Steelers win the Super Bowl

- Seattle Supersonics win the NBA Finals

- Montreal Conandiens win the Stanley Cup

- Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series

1970

The Beatles break up.  By the end of the year, each member had released a solo album.

- Nixon ends the US trade embargo against China
- 26th amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18
- Jim Morrison dies in Paris at age 27 (July 3)
- Intel introduces the microprocessor.

And a big happy birhtday to you lornajean!

1952

Cost of a first-class stamp - .03.......The Honeymooners debut on CBS...Jonas Salk developed the first experimentally safe dead-virus polio vaccine....the first plastic artificial heart valve was developed..and Ernest Hemingway wrote-The Old Man and The Sea.  Happy Birthday lornajean

1962....

The first Taco Bell opened

The worlds first active communications satellite was launched

Cans that can be opened with tabs were invented

Marilyn Monroe died

Cuban Missile Crisis

MIT computer programmers invent the first computer game, Spacewar

Happy Birthday lornajean!!

1971 - Genocide in Bangladesh

Week of May 29 - June 5 - Me and Bobby McGee reaches number 1

Week of May 22 - 29 - Joy to the World - number one

That's all I know.

Happy birthday!

1957: the first satellite, Sputnik I, was launched.

My cat is named Sputnik in comemmoration (and because she orbits me:)

BTW, Lorna, my brother was born April 24 1959 - we're having his birthday party on Sunday:) congrats!

Flamel - That's really neat about your kitty... And your brother was born on the same day as my Mom...

1986

I have no idea about anything that happened in the year I was born off the top of my head... But I do know that Professional snowboarder and Olympic medalist Shaun White was born on the exact same day as me...

After looking up my year:

- The first PC Virus titled "Brain" began to spread in January 1986
- A tour bus carrying Metallica crashed in Sweden, killing their bassist, Cliff Burton
- The Mets won the world series :(

1984-

Marvin Gaye was murdered by his father.
Soundgarden was formed.
The first MTV Music Awards was held.

(I'm a music fan.)

I'm a big music fan myself, stokesreagan.  I had forgotten all about the Marvin Gaye tragedy.

On my birthday July 13, 1983

1983 - Around 3,000 Tamils were slaughtered by Sinhalese Buddhist majority in Sri Lanka and some 400,000 Tamils fled to neighboring Tamil Nadu, India and a lot found refuge in Europe and Canada. This incident, known as Black July led directly to beginning of civil war in Sri Lanka.

yay for wikipedia.

1967

Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st African-American Supreme Court justice

PBS was created

Life expectancy was 70.5

The Graduate and Cool Hand Luke were popular movies and the Beatles released St. Pepper's

1979 Something about Olympics happened...haha...

1961

As MAD Magazine pointed out on its cover for the March issue, this was the first "upside-up" year?i.e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down?since 1881, and the last until 6009.

1942

U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded 
Anne Frank begins her diary
The first nuclear reaction explosion is demonstrated