What events happened the year you were born.

Desire2

Just type in the year of birth,i found lots of stuff i did not know about mine even from those pay certificates.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2gq2af/whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

Gilldog

The Terminator happened. Im so proud.

My name is URL

In 1983, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Stumbleupon, for that matter.

In 1983, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

A seminal moment in the history of our world

mackg

Main thing according to that was the release of Top Gun

Dotrel

Titanic hit an iceberg? Well that's news to me!

Kasabian

I already knew that a world war began that year.

Desire2

Dotrel wrote: »

Titanic hit an iceberg? Well that's news to me!

Did it sink can you remember?:p

Paulor94

Thats cool! Here's a bit of mine

The 1990s were indeed a special decade. The Nineties saw the beginnings of the World Wide Web, originating at CERN. Email becomes popular. The Soviet Union dissolved. Living standards in East Asia and Europe generally improved. The Cold War ends. Iraqi forces invade Kuwait. A UN coalition force led by the US was sent to the Persian Gulf, and aerial bombing of Iraq began. The Kosovo War took place. The Ethiopian Civil War ends. Dolly, a sheep, is cloned. The Global Positioning System GPS becomes fully operational. Genetically engineered crops are developed for commercial use. Intel develops the Pentium processor. The Java programming language is created. Microsoft released Windows 95. In Los Angeles, riots occur after the police brutality case involving Rodney King. Great Britain hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to China. East Timor breaks away from Indonesian control. US president Bill Clinton was involved in the Lewinsky scandal. Dogme 95 becomes an important artistic movement in European film. Teen soap Beverly Hills 90210 has its long run. Baywatch becomes the most watched show in history. On MTV, reality television makes its beginning. Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa. Germany was reunified. The prediction of computer bug Y2K spreads fear.

Best bit? in 1994 there was no google or stumbleupon infact.

Dudess

94?! Sweet Jesus!
Im biologically old enough to be your mother!

In 1978 I don't think much happened. Bony M were in the charts.

stoneill

We stopped using bronze and started to use iron!

strobe

Paulor94 wrote: »

Best bit? in 1994 there was no google or stumbleupon infact.

:eek: Holy crap that makes me feel old.

Dudess wrote: »

In 1978 I don't think much happened. Bony M were in the charts.

Ah, that's better. Sure I'm still just a young buck so.

Thanks Dudess.

mackg

My parents sex life deteriorated dramatically.

Balfie

I was born in 1988, it was the year of the Dublin Millennium. A 50p piece was made especially for the event. I had one, but lost it..

Benny_Cake

Ayatollahs in Iran,
Russians in Afghanistan

Got that awful song stuck in my head now..

paky

there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day

My name is URL

paky wrote: »

there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day

All normal parts of the birth process

Biggins

The wheel was invented.

Benny_Cake

paky wrote: »

there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day

Your name isn't Damien by any chance?

Paulor94

Dudess wrote: »

94?! Sweet Jesus!
Im biologically old enough to be your mother!

In 1978 I don't think much happened. Bony M were in the charts.

If you where you'd be one of those teen moms :P

zenno

Desire2 wrote: »

Just type in the year of birth,i found lots of stuff i did not know about mine even from those pay certificates.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2gq2af/whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

as i was held screaming and spluttering some kind of words and crapping all over myself in 1969 while mother and father were trying to watch the moon landing live, this was 1 major event a couple of days after my birth.

and it's now almost 2012 and i'm still screaming and spluttering and crapping all over myself, wow looking back it's amazing how things have changed.

paky

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Your name isn't Damien by any chance?

funny you should say that

Samich

My birth happened the year I was born.

Wetai

paky wrote: »

there was at total elcipse when i was born also a tornado, volcano eruption and tsunami all in one day

The day Goku went Super Saiyan? :pac:

Desire2

zenno wrote: »

as i was held screaming and spluttering some kind of words and crapping all over myself in 1969 while mother and father were trying to watch the moon landing live,

Did you give a small kick or a Giant kick to take your parents attention off the telly and on to you?

Skylinehead

Gilldog wrote: »

The Terminator happened. Im so proud.

Terminator 2 >

zenno

Desire2 wrote: »

Did you give a small kick or a Giant kick to take your parents attention off the telly and on to you?

I'm not sure but they said the effort i put into it was akin to a mobile phone vibration, i was that tiny i just vibrated all over them in many ways and they just said here here, heres another drop of whiskey on the sooder lol it done me the world of good.

Elvis died

44leto

I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.

John Doe1

Berlin wall fell down:)

Irish Guitarist

Apparently there was no Google or Yahoo in 1976. Rocky was on in the cinema and it caused peoples eyes to glaze over (or something). Books were still on paper rather than electronic devices. DVDs hadn't been invented either and people still went to the cinema. Just imagine. :eek:

phasers

6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1991. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Clarissa Explains it All. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's The Red Green Show on now. That's the world you were born in.

Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1991. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Memory Card.

I was watching reruns of Clarissa until about 1997. Doesn't seem like I missed much.

Kevin Duffy

Wasn't I born in my birth year? What more do you feckin' want??

CarefulNow

Marathon became Snickers

cynder

St helens erupts, 63 people are beheaded, Italian earthquake kills almost 5000, star wars v is released, Stephen Gerrad is born.

Biggins

CarefulNow wrote: »

Marathon became Snickers

GAWD :eek:

Thats like yesterday for me! :eek:

Ellis Dee

Hitler's army got fcuked and surrendered in Stalingrad.:):):)

DEFTLEFTHAND

Ireland played in their first Euros.

Galway won their last SHC.

Oh_Noes

Got bored reading mine. The first three or four paragraphs just telling me about fairly recent technology that hadn't been invented yet. "There was no Google yet". Y'don't say...

El Weirdo

Christ, nearly 40 posts in and no one has block copy-pasta'd the Wikipedia entry for the year of their birth, complete with bullet points, little blue citation references and hyperlinks.

I am shocked.

aaronjumper

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, top selling movie.
Tom Clancy's Clear And Present Danger, top selling book.
Blue Laser, Digital Waveguide Synthesis and Viagra were invented.

At least according to Stumbleupon. There was more I just put down the stuff I was interested in.

efb

The Day I was born CJ Haughey delivered his state of the nation

Killer Pigeon

Soviet Union collapsed.

marketty

Also,Galway liberated from Indians

Fbjm

So apparently in 1992 george bush senior puked on the then prime minister of china. Had a good chuckle at that.

LH Pathe

Elvis died, on the toilet was a big event.

Hawaii 5-0 was also a big event back then

not yet

The star of bethleham was shinning bright.

pragmatic1

I was born. You are all privileged to be alive at the same time as me. It really must be a blessing for you all.

pragmatic1

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Hitler's army got fcuked and surrendered in Stalingrad.:):):)

Eww. You is old and ting.

Ficheall

Link in OP is crap.
Why not just wiki and choose for oneself what is interesting or important? One doesn't have to wait for ridiculously slow scrolling words or listen to someone think they're being profound and original...

Desire2

Ficheall wrote: »

Link in OP is crap.

Is it really Fichell?,the link works fine and i never said it was mostly not stuff you you could find elsewhere and pay for.
read carefully i said i found stuff that never turned up on paid versions of the same type of info.
AH would be great if nobody started a thread about anything wouldn't it?

Why not just wiki and choose for oneself what is interesting or important?

Since you have so much faith in Wiki why not do all your surfing on it?

One doesn't have to wait for ridiculously slow scrolling words or listen to someone think they're being profound and original..

You are right you only have to open a second tab and continue having a go at others on boards whilst your full results build up to completion on the first one,but you knew that didn't you.right?

Da Shins Kelly

A lot of stuff to do with The Silence of the Lambs.