Daz1874 Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 http://whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 In 1993, the world was a different place. There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Hmfckickback.co.uk, for that matter. Wasn't expecting it to say that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3fingersreid Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 couldnae wait for it to count back that fekin far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychocAndy Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tams bird Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Ben Hur was released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo Hoggie Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Elvis died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Seeger Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Back to the future was released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Palmer Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Maggie Thatcher became Prime Minister..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big D Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Dundee won the league. We were 6th. This was before the internet apparently and people read books. And it was before Lawrence of Arabia was on Betamax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groot Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Empire Strikes Back came out Robert Mugabe was elected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Lets just say that 1978 was boring as feck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currahee! Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 Godfather 2 was released. Its the best one. West Germany win the world cup. Nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Say What Again Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 It seems that in 1975 every single thing that happened was connected to One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Lets just say that 1978 was boring as feck Apart from moi being born obviously....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dik Mar Van Nostrilboy Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 The Berlin Wall was knocked down... and a top shagger was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Palmer Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 It seems that in 1975 every single thing that happened was connected to One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest. I love that film...part of my training involved watching the start and making comments on said start. Think I laughed... oh aye and no desk as it's a barrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johanes de Silentio Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 The Beatles 'White Album' and 'Yellow Submarine', not to mention two brilliant non-album singles - ******* beat that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Brody Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc and Warner Communications Inc The United Kingdom and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after 8 years. Police seal off Brixton in South London after another night of protests against the poll tax. East Germany holds its first free elections. The United States begins broadcasting TV Mart? to Cuba. Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million. The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty. The Detroit Pistons defeat the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA Finals. Underwater volcano Mount Didicas erupts in the Philippines. In Rome, on the night before soccer's 1990 FIFA World Cup, the Three Tenors sing together for the first time. The event is broadcast live on television and watched worldwide by millions of people Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru. Nintendo releases the NES game Super Mario Bros. 3 in North America. The video game of the day was Final Fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedbump Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 '77 was a great year, no doubt about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Hearts were relegated for the first time in their history the day after I was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Rom?n Riquelme Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 In 1991... Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychocAndy Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Rev Dr Martin Luther King Nobel Literature, John-Paul Sartre Nelson Mandela made his "I am prepared to die" speech. Rex Harrison got the Oscar for best Actor for My Fair Lady Julie Andrews got the Oscar for best Actress for Mary Poppins In the 47 years since then I have seen My Fair Lady but not Mary Poppins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilnunb Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Godfather 2 was released. Its the best one. West Germany win the world cup. Nothing else. snap. Although Ceefax was started. Used to love wasting the hours flicking through Ceefax......before the dawn of the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currahee! Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 snap. Although Ceefax was started. Used to love wasting the hours flicking through Ceefax......before the dawn of the internet. So did I funnily enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chester copperpot Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Godfather 2 was released. Its the best one. West Germany win the world cup. Nothing else. A vintage year my friend. Stephen King also released his first novel 'Carrie' and Francis Ford Coppella won best director for Godfather II. And I was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markie Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 In 1984, the world was a different place. There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Hmfckickback.co.uk, for that matter. In 1984, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Ghostbusters. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster. Remember, that was before there were DVDs. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects. Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Amadeus. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Dangerous Moves. The top actor was F. Murray Abraham for his role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. The top actress was Sally Field for her role as Edna Spalding in Places in the Heart. The best director? Milos Forman for Amadeus. In the year 1984, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover! In 1984... US Bell System is broken up. Brunei becomes a fully independent state. The Apple Macintosh is introduced. Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen gets in a serious car accident, severing his left arm. Medicare comes into effect in Australia. NASA crashes a remote controlled Boeing 720 in a Controlled Impact Demonstration. The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections. The popular Transformers toy and media franchise debuts. Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon. Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment. Michael Jackson won a record eight Grammy Awards. Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30. Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours. The Louisiana World's Fair opens. Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world. The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997. The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres to win in 5 games. The British Telecom is privatised. A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinj?rvi lake in Finnish Lapland. The video game of the day was Paperboy. That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it. The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Jaroslav Seifert. The Nobel Peace prize went to Desmond Mpilo Tutu. The Nobel prize for physics went to Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer from Italy and Netherlands for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it? The 1980s were indeed a special decade. The Soviet-Afghan war goes on. Eastern Europe sees the collapse of communism. Policies like Perestroika and Glasnost in the Soviet Union lead to a wave of reforms. Protests are crushed down on Tiananmen Square in China. Ethiopa witnesses widespread famine. Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown. The AIDS pandemic begins. The role of women in the workplace increased greatly. MTV is launched in the US. There is opposition against Apartheid in South Africa as well as worldwide. Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bands are extremely popular. The rise of Techno music begins. Originally primarily played on campus radio stations, College Rock enters the scene with bands like the Pixies, REM and Sonic Youth. The Hip Hop scene continues to evolve. Teletext is introduced. Gay rights become more widely accepted in the world. Opposition to nuclear power plants grows. The A-Team and Seinfeld are popular on TV. US basketball player Michael Jordan bursts on the scene. Super Mario Bros, Zelda's Link, and Pac-Man gain fame in video games. People wear leggings, shoulder pads and Ray-Ban sunglasses. Do you know what was on the cover of Life that year? Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? American Beauty. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was Heartbreaker by Mariah Carey featuring Jay-Z. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember? In 1984, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along. You put the boom boom into my heart, You send my soul sky high when your lovin' starts. Jitterbug into my brain, Goes bang bang bang till my feet do the same. ... There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid. When you were 9, the movie Last Action Hero was playing. When you were 8, there was Honey, I Blew Up the Kid. When you were 7, there was a Disney movie out called Aladdin. Does this ring a bell? 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 1984. 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 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Kate and Allie 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 1984. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Digital Synthesizer. The Portable CD Player. Phase Distortion Synthesis. 1984 Knockin' on your door Will you let it come? Will you let it run your life? ... That's from the song 1984 by Spirit. In 1984, a new character entered the world of comic books: Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1984, Ashlee Simpson was born. And Avril Lavigne. Chiaki Kuriyama, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life. It's 2011. The world is a different place. What path have you taken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markie Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 In 1902, the world was a different place. There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or Hmfckickback.co.uk, for that matter. Remember, that was before there were DVDs. Heck, even before there was VHS. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects. In 1902... The Commonwealth Public Service Act creates Australia's Public Service. The Anthracite Coal Strike begins in the United States. A statue of Joan of Arc was unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier. In the United States, a five month strike by the United Mine Workers ends. The first Aswan Dam on The Nile is completed. That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it. The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Theodor Mommsen. The Nobel Peace prize went to ?lie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it? The 1900s were indeed a special decade. The Naughts see end of the Second Boer War. The Russo-Japanese War establishes the Empire of Japan as a world power. The home phonograph becomes widely popular. The first Zeppelin flight occurs. The first electric typewriter is invented. The nickel-alkaline storage battery sees the light of day. The Geiger Counter, measuring radioactivity, is invented by Hans Geiger. There's a kid outside, shouting, playing. It doesn't care about time. It doesn't know about time. It shouts and it plays and thinks time is forever. You were once that kid. Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1902. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Ostwald Process. The Air Conditioner. The Neon Lamp. It's 2011. The world is a different place. What path have you taken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ribble Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Only 2 things stand out about 81 for me The first De Loren was built Metallica were formed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Currahee! Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 A vintage year my friend. Stephen King also released his first novel 'Carrie' and Francis Ford Coppella won best director for Godfather II. And I was born. You Neilnumb and myself. 3 of JKB's finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 The second Ibrox disaster,that cow Thatcher stole the milk,Smokin Joe Frazier beats Ali at Madison Square Gardens,Arsenal do the double,Disney World opens in Florida,Charles Manson is sentenced to death,Rolls Royce goes bankrupt,The French Connection and a Clockwork orange were released and on St Andrews day 1971 i popped my head out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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