News headlines on the date you were born

antodeco

Mines Depressing:

1981: Mystery disease kills homosexuals
A mysterious epidemic, which has been discovered in homosexual men, is causing increasing concern in the United States.
The unknown condition, which consists of two separate diseases - a form of pneumonia and skin cancer, has been found in 180 patients in 15 states since last July.

It has claimed around 75 lives so far in the US and up to 92% of the victims are homosexual men.

One death has been reported from the virus in London.

Although doctors have identified what appears to be a new disease, they have yet to devise a cure.

The epidemic is being investigated by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta.

The specialist unit has already discovered the causes of two other diseases, the toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaires' disease.

Dr James Curran, who is investigating the condition, said: "It is a very serious problem and it does not seem to be on the wane."

Three studies in the New England Journal of Medicine show that the immune systems of victims are severely weakened, leaving them vulnerable to serious infections from germs which most people normally shrug off.

Homosexuals who have developed either of the two conditions have shown a low resistance to standard tests on their immune system.

Four victims also had rare skin ulcers normally caused by the herpes simplex virus.

Researchers claim that their findings are "part of a nationwide epidemic of immunodeficiency among male homosexuals".

Doctors are unsure of the cause of the epidemic which is carried in semen and other body secretions.

A study at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) suggests that homosexuals may be repeatedly infected with the virus.

One case also involved an intravenous drug user which implies that the disease could be spread by sharing needles.

Turns out it was AIDs

Phoole

30th October 1974

Muhammad Ali KOs George Foreman in 8th round in Kinshasa Zaire

Diego Maradona's 14th birthday.

ImDave

Natal beat Eastern Province in Durban in the Cricket.

Lirange

Some Charles O'Brien guy is questioned about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

While googling also found out that Charlize Theron was born on the exact day as me.

Civilian_Target

Haughey calls for dissolution of the Dáil... boring

Tom65

The front page of the Irish Times is all about the North on my birthday: the O'Grady kidnapping, some IRA bomber getting 25 years [coincidentally, he made the 1982 Hyde Park bomb which happened 26 years ago today], explosion in Belfast, some British-Irish extradition issue.

Got better after that though.

More generally, the Cuban missile crisis ended. Though that was 25 years before I was born.

Legend_DIT

January 21, 1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana

January 21, 1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA

January 21, 1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed

chopperbyrne

Sun May 29 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

Sun May 29 Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 meters

These were in 1983.

javaboy

Phoole wrote: »

Diego Maradona's 14th birthday.

That made the papers?

lorweld

20th April 1979 (also Hitlers birthday)

President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his hometown Plains, Georgia.

Wtf?

5starpool

Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

The_Conductor

Clytus wrote: »

So did anything special happen on the day you were born??
Feck all really on my Bday....except for the first oil was pumped into the trans Alaska oil pipeline....Too Good!!!!

I share my date of birth (10.05.74) with Angelina Jolie. On that date all the was on the news here was the Monaghan and Dublin bombings...... Thankfully things have moved on since then........

Mrs. MacGyver

The three mile island nuclear disaster was the worst nuclear disaster in US history.

Jim Callaghan's government in the UK lost a motion of no confidence by 1 vote forcing a general election.


I share my birthday with - Raphael (Renaissance Artist) and Julia Styles (actress) and Dirk Bogarde (actor)