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[Borys]

1981:

- martial law declared in Poland; army on the streets, people were especially afraid of the tanks

- Rupert Murdoch buys "The Times"

- Mehmet Ali Agca fumbles the assassination of Pope John Paul II; pope forgave him later

- François Mitterrand becames France president

What happened the year you were born?

 

[Mamesj]

^^^All that stuff.

 

[MaX_PL]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986

 

[Shorty]

I was born.

 

[Tornado Condor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990

nothing too interesting

 

[Sylar]

The Yuppies attacked DisneyLand, and got their ass kicked by a man in a mouse suit. Oh and the chinese decided to protest on the day the lord granted the world me.

 

[CajoleJuice]

The Mets won the World Series.

 

[rollingstart]

the second comming.

 

[McBacon]

1989

In WrestleMania V, Hulk Hogan defeats Randy Savage
Typhoon Gay devastates the Thai province of Chumphon
The first full length episode of The Simpsons premieres on FOX
The last Golden Toad is seen
Hayden Panettiere is born

 

[Flek]

January 28 - STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (see Space Shuttle
Challenger disaster).

February 21 - Nintendo releases the Famicom Disk System in Japan. A customer could re-write games with the disk for 500 yen. The instruction manual was sold seperatly for 100 yen. The first game enhanced with Famicom Disk System capabilities was The Legend of Zelda.

April 26 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many more die from cancer in later years, many thousands more are exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, and vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus are rendered uninhabitable.

Spoiler

1986

 

[Gossack]

1989:

January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.

April 21 - Nintendo begins selling the Game Boy in Japan.

August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.

December 17 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on FOX.

July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe is born.

 

[GhostSeed]

Christ all you people are young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977

 

[S. L.]

1982
The first emoticons are posted by Scott Fahlman.

 

[Pachinko]

I'm a gonna list only the stuff I think is neat

1983
- red rain falls in britain from sand in the droplets carried over from the sahara desert
-wah mee massacre 13 die in a robbery attempt in seattle
-MASH ends its tv run
-strategic defence initiative- STAR WARS
-gandi wins 8 oscars
-pioneer 10 leaves the solar system, first manmade object to do so
-the NES launches in japan
-a korean passanger jet is shot down upon entering soviet airspace killing 269 people

There's alot that happened actually.

 

[guess]

http://i8.tinypic.com/6lsnaeu.gif was born

 

[Femmeworth]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990

nothing too interesting

Same here.

Super Mario Bros. 3, the best selling non-bundled game in history is released for the NES, in North America

There's something I didn't know.

May 16 - American puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, dies suddenly from organ failure at the age of 53.

Oh wow.

 

[Alx]

Christ all you people are young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977

Same thing.

May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.

We win.

 

[Mii]

Moments I find interesting or important (particularly those still affecting us today) in 1988:

January 1 - The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev

May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than 8 years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.

July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.

July 7 - I'm born.

August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protestors in Burma, now known as "Myanmar", are killed during anti-government demonstrations.

August 19 - A truce begins in the Iran-Iraq war.
August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one-million lives lost.

August 26 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.

August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and three-hundred and forty-six injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

October 13 - In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of C.N.N., if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.

October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan

November 8 - United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.

November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections were held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.

Pretty interesting year. More here.

 

[Xater]

1984:

January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. (That had to be a sign :lol )

 

[Edag Plata]

Haha, I was going to say how young you all were, me being born in 1988. A few '77s in there were encouraging though...

 

[Escape Goat]

1982 - First CDs were released in Germany.


woot

 

[sooperkool]

Christ all you people are young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977

yeah, you guys are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970

 

[twinturbo2]

1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985
NES is released in North America.
San Francisco wins the Super Bowl over the Dolphins, in what turns out to be Dan Marino's only Super Bowl appearance.
Kansas City wins the World Series.
GM founded Saturn (the car company, not the planet) this year, although they won't sell cars until 1992.
Commodore Amiga goes on sale.
Mike Tyson makes his professional boxing debut.
Route 66 is decomissioned.
Back to the Future hits theaters.
The Discovery Channel is launched
Howard Stern is fired from WNBC-AM.
Windows 1.0 is released.
The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable go on sale.
ATI Technologies is founded.
Calvin and Hobbes debuts.

I win this thread.

 

[Windu]

1987

 

[OnkelC]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971
lots of interesting shit:

January 7 - The British heavy metal band Black Sabbath releases their breakthrough album, Paranoid, in the U.S..

February 7 - Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific ones.

April 9 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death; in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to life imprisonment.

June 30 - The movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is released in theaters.

July 3 - The Doors musician Jim Morrison is found dead in his Paris, France apartment.

July 31 - Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.

August 6 - A lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed.

August 25 - The Who release their critically acclaimed album Who's Next.

October 1 - Walt Disney World opens in Florida.

October 29 - Legendary Southern Rock guitarist and Allman Brothers Band founding member Duane Allman is killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Georgia.

October 30 - Pink Floyd's sixth LP Meddle is released, containing 6 tracks, including the epic 23-minute "Echoes".

November 3 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.

November 8 - Led Zeppelin releases their untitled fourth album, sometimes called Led Zeppelin IV or Runes. The album contains such hits as "When the Levee Breaks", "Rock and Roll", and the most requested rock song of all time, "Stairway To Heaven". Led Zeppelin IV will become the fourth best selling album of all time with sales of 22 million copies, and a source of inspiration for generations of rock artists to come.

November 15 - Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

December 4 - The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert. The event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". The casino will be rebuilt in 1975.

December 19 - Intelsat IV (F3) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.

And I share birthday with Tiffany Towers, YAY!:lol

 

[Xater]

1985.
I win this thread.

Wait a second. I only posted one thing but I could add two geeky "events" that are not unimportant:

The release of Terminator and Transformers.

I also shar my birthday with Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

 

[twinturbo2]

Wait a second. I only posted one thing but I could add two geeky "events" that are not unimportant:

The release of Terminator and Transformers.

I also shar my birthday with Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

That's three.

 

[Escape Goat]

Also in 1982:


* 39TH ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS:

Best Director - Motion Picture
Warren Beatty, Reds (CED)

Best Foreign Language Film
Chariots of Fire, Great Britain (CED)

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
East of Eden (tie), Mace Neufeld Prod./Viacom/ABC
Bill (tie), Alan Landsburg Prods./CBS

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Arthur, Orion (CED)

Best Motion Picture - Drama
On Golden Pond, Universal & AFD Corp. (CED)

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do), Arthur (CED)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Mickey Rooney, Bill

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Dudley Moore, Arthur (CED)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond (CED)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
John Gielgud, Arthur (CED)

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Comedy/Musical
Alan Alda, M*A*S*H (CED)

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series - Drama
Daniel J. Travanti, Hill Street Blues

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Jane Seymour, East of Eden

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Bernadette Peters, Pennies From Heaven (CED)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Meryl Streep, The French Lieutenant's Woman (CED)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture
Joan Hackett, Only When I Laugh (CED)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television-Series - Comedy/Musical
Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin (CED)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television-Series - Drama
Linda Evans (tie), Dynasty
Barbara Bel Geddes (tie), Dallas

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Ernest Thompson, On Golden Pond (CED)

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
John Hillerman, Magnum P.I.

Best Supporting Actress in Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Valerie Bertinelli, One Day At A Time

Best Television -Series - Drama
Hill Street Blues, NBC

Best Television-Series - Comedy/Musical
M*A*S*H, CBS (CED)

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Sidney Poitier.

Historic Award: Best Television Special - Variety/Musical
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration

Historic Award: New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male or Female
Pia Zadora, Butterfly (CED)

 

[HAL_Laboratory]

To be more specific, these are people who I share the same birthday with:

1542 Elisabeth van Nassau daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg
1580 Johann Stobaeus composer
1632 Albert Schop composer
and Pietro Reggio composer
1638 Gerrit A Berckheyde Dutch painter
1668 Peter Burmannus [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist
1678 Nicola Francesco Haym composer
1702 Franz Anton Maichelbeck composer
1739 Freidrich Wilhelm Rust composer
1747 Coelestin Jungbauer composer
and John Paul Jones naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")
1753 John H Midderigh Rotterdam patriot, baptized
1773 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka composer
1782 Luis [Philippus] Brion Cura‡ao commander of Colombian fleet
1785 William J Hooker English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
1793 Jacob M de Kempenaer Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
1796 Nicholas I Pavlovitch tsar of Russia (1825-55)
1800 Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti composer
1814 Justus McKinstry Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1818 Adolf Anderssen Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
1821 Edward Winston Pettus Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1832 Maximilian F J archduke of Austria/Emperor of Mexico
1837 Wlasyslaw Zelenski composer
1852 John Albert Delany composer
1856 Edward Anseele Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
1859 Verner von Heidenstam Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916)
1864 Alberto Nepomuceno Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1868 Petrus A Euwens Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Cura‡ao)
1873 Paul Keller German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
1877 David Stanley Smith composer
and Niceto A Zamora y Torres premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
1878 Eino Leino Finland, poet/playwright/novelist (El m„n Koreus)
1881 Josef Winckler German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1884 Andr‚ Dunoyer de Segonzac French painter/cartoonist
and Harold Vanderbilt NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
and Willem Dudok Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
1888 Annette Kellerman Sydney Australia, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid)
1892 Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst Belgian WW I pilot
1896 Thomas W McKnew president (National Geographic Society)
1898 Hanns Eisler German/US composer/Gemran DR-minister for propaganda
19-- Carmen Duncan actress (Iris-Another World)
and Gwenn Mitchell Morristown NJ, actress (Joan-Amy Prentiss)
and Patricia Kennedy SF Calif, XXX actress (Misfits of Society, Ejacula)
and Sandro spanish entertainer [or Aug 19]
and Tom Wiggin actor (As the World Turns, Mike-Breaking Away)
1903 Axel Theorell Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1904 Robert Whitney Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1906 Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens composer
and Kate A ter Horst-Arri‰ns Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem)
1907 M C Frida Kahlo Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera
1908 Leonce Grass Flemish singer/conductor
1914 Jens Rohiner composer
1915 Dorothy Kirsten Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
and Laverne Andrews Minneapolis MN, singer (Andrews Sisters)
and Marcel Quinet Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1917 Hugo Cole composer
1918 Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing)
and Eugene List Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
and Sebastian Cabot London, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine)
1919 Earnest Haefliger Swiss tenor (St„dtische Oper Berlin)
1920 William Worthington horse trainer
1922 William Schallert LA Calif, actor (Patty Duke Show, Get Smart)
1923 Cathy O'Donnell Siluria AL, actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie)
and Marie McDonald Burgin KY, singer
and Nancy Davis Reagan [Anne Francis Robbins], NYC, 1st Lady (1981-89)
and Wojciech Jaruzelski Polish general/pres (1989-90)
1924 Robert M White pilot (X-15)
1925 Bill Haley Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
and Huub H Jacobse member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal)
and Merv Griffin San Mateo Calif, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1926 Nicky Hilton
1927 Charles Whittenberg composer
and Janet Leigh Cal, actress (Psycho, Harper), She's in the shower
and Pat Paulsen Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
and Susan Cabot Boston, actress (Carnival Rock)
and [Jan] Hein Donner Dutch chess master
1929 Gerd Zacher composer
1930 Fran‡oise Mallet-Joris [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
1931 Donal Donnelly Bradford Yorkshire England, actor (Dead)
1932 Della Reese Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)
1935 14th Dalai Lama Tibetan spiritual leader
1937 Gene Chandler [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)
and Ned Beatty Lexington Ky, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network)
and Vladimir Ashkenazy Gorkey Rus, pianist/conductor (Tchakowsky-1961)
1938 Franco Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader (Masumbuku)
1939 Helena Dupont US, equestrian 3-day even (Olympic-33rd place-1964)
and Jet Harris [Terence Harris], London, rock bassist (Drifters)
and Mary Peters England, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 Viktor Kuzkin USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1944 Byron Berline rocker
and Gunhild Hoffmeister German FR, 800m/1500m runner (Oly-silver-72)
1945 Burt Ward [Gervis], LA Calif, actor (Robin-Batman)
and Richard Elswit rocker
and Rik Elswit rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show-In the Right Place)
1946 Fred Dryer Hawthone Calif, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
and James Naughton US, actor (Trauma center) [or June 12, 1945]
and Jamie Wyeth Penn, artist (An American Vision-Boston)
and Rick Hunter actor
and Sylvester Stallone NYC, actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra)
1947 Richard Beckinsale Nottingham England, actor (Porridge, Doing Time)
1948 Brad Park Toronto, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
and Nathalie Baye Mainneville France, actress (Beau Pere, Honeymoon)
1949 Shelley Hack Greenwich Ct, actress (Tiffany-Charlie's Angel)
1950 Ramon Guzman jockey
and Sultan Rakhmanov Super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1980)
1952 Grant Goodeve Middlebury CT, actor (Northern Exposure)
1953 Nanci Griffith US singer/songwriter (Poet in My Window)
1954 Allyce Beasley Bkln, actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting)
and James Kiberd actor (Trevor Dillon-Loving)
1956 John Jorgenson Madison Wisc, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
and Matt Bahr NFL kicker (NY Giants)
1957 Mario Martinez Salinas Ca, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988)
and Ron Duguay Canada, hockey player (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
1959 John Keeble London, rock drummer (Spandau Ballet-True)
1960 Jozef/Josef Pribilinec Czech, speed waalker (world record 10K)
and Valerie Brisco-Hooks Greenwood Ms, 200m/400m runner (Olympic-gold-84)
1961 Benita Fitzgerald-Brown Virg, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
and Kimberly Foster actress (It Takes Two)
1963 Edwin Gorter soccer player (Lommel/FC Utrecht)
1964 Lillie Leatherwood Northport Ala, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1965 Glenn Scarpelli Staten Is NY, actor (Alex-One Day At a Time, Fantasy)
and Tim Camargo jockey
1969 Michael Grant vocalist (Musical Youth)
1971 Kari Kupcinet Chicago, actress (Julie Sanderson-Young & Restless)
1979 Nicolas Daniel Maricio Prince of Netherlands

 

[Nick]

I was born.

 

[Vallarfax]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984

My Actual Birthday:

April 19 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

1984 Fun Facts:

* Film:

* The Terminator (1984): Both the title character and Kyle Reese are sent back through time from 2029 to May 12.

* Television:

* The Transformers (1984): The Autobots and Decepticons awaken after four million years.

 

[Penguin]

1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985
NES is released in North America.
San Francisco wins the Super Bowl over the Dolphins, in what turns out to be Dan Marino's only Super Bowl appearance.
Kansas City wins the World Series.
GM founded Saturn (the car company, not the planet) this year, although they won't sell cars until 1992.
Commodore Amiga goes on sale.
Mike Tyson makes his professional boxing debut.
Route 66 is decomissioned.
Back to the Future hits theaters.
The Discovery Channel is launched
Howard Stern is fired from WNBC-AM.
Windows 1.0 is released.
The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable go on sale.
ATI Technologies is founded.
Calvin and Hobbes debuts.

I win this thread.

Another one that is important to me

Wrestlemania is held for the first time two days before my birthday in my hometown of New York City.

 

[papelnabangka]

Marcos toppled in the Philippines.

The Space Shuttle exploded.

 

[gimz]

1984

January 1 - Brunei became a fully independent state.
January 1 - Bell System divestiture breaks AT&T into 24 independent units.
January 3 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
January 18 - Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Omuta, Kyushu, Japan, 83 killed.
January 22 - The Los Angeles Raiders win their third NFL Championship, defeating the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Super Bowl XVIII at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
January 23 - The Peace and Friendship Treaty is signed between Argentina and Chile in Vatican City.
January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
January 27 - Pop star Michael Jackson's scalp is seriously burned by pyrotechnics during filming of a Pepsi television commercial.

February 1 - Medicare comes into effect in Australia.
February 3 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th space shuttle mission.
February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
February 8 - The 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo.
February 9 - Disclosure of remarks by Jesse Jackson, considered anti-Semitic by some, hurt his presidential campaign.
February 11 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center
February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
February 26 - United States Marines pull out of Beirut, Lebanon.
February 29 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement.

March 5 - Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the U.N. condemns their use on March 30.
March 5 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Harimandir Sahib, the Sikh holy spot.
March 6 - A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (See UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)).
March 14 - Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and 3 others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.
March 16 - The CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and later dies in captivity.
March 22 - Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the schoolchildren (the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded).
March 23 - General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over 2 of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.
March 27 - A brand new musical Starlight Express opens in the West End. The cast stars Ray Shell as Rusty the Steam Engine and Stephanie Lawrence as Pearl the Observation Car.

April 2 - Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
April 4 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
April 12 - Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (1 hostage, 2 hijackers killed).
April 13 - India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
April 17 - WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
April 19 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 25 - The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
April 26 - Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor, becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

May 2 - The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 5 - The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 - Denis Lortie kills 3 government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
May 8 - The longest game in Major League Baseball history begins at 7:30 PM between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox. The game will be played over the course of 2 days, lasting 25 innings, with a total time of 8 hours and 6 minutes.
May 11 - Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure burns down, killing 8.
May 11 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 12 - The Louisiana World's Fair opens.
May 14 - The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.

June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 6 - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh's holiest shrine, killing an estimated 300 people.
June 8 - A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 20 - The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
June 22 - The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
June 22 - Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
June 27 - France beats Spain 2-0 to win the Euro 84.
June 30 - John Napier Turner becomes Canada's 17th Prime Minister.


July 4 - Richard Petty wins his 200th career NASCAR victory at the Firecracker 400 in Daytona, Florida.
July 9 - Lightning sets fire to York Minster.
July 12 - In San Francisco, the Democratic National Convention nominates Walter F. Mondale for U.S. President, and Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President.
July 14 - New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon calls a snap election and is heavily defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.
July 18 - The first Culver's opens in Sauk City, Wisconsin.
July 18 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed.
July 21 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in what is apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
July 23 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in "Penthouse" magazine.
July 25 - Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
July 28-August 12 - The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

August 1 - Australian banks are deregulated.
August 4 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
August 11 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
August 16 - John De Lorean is acquitted of all 8 charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
Hottest Day ever recorded in Kansas City, Missouri
August 21 - Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
August 23 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush are renominated at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas.
August 30 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

September 2 - Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in a bikie shootout between the rival gangs Bandidos and Comancheros, in the Sydney suburb of Milperra.
September 4 - The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
September 4 - The Nicaraguan general elections are held, Sandinista Front is the winner.
September 5 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
September 5 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 14 - The first MTV Video Music Awards are held in Radio City Music Hall, New York City.
September 20 - Hezbollah car bombs the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
September 26 - The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.

October 4 - Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.
October 5 - STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
October 11 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
October 12 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.
October 19 - Polish secret police arrest Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards . Riots soon break out in New Delhi, and some 2,700 Sikhs are killed.

November 2 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
November 4 - Dell Computers was founded as PC's Limited.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
November 9 - Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
November 19 - A series of explosions at the PEMEX Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
November 25 - Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid, and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas", in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
November 25 - An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
November 28 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
November 29 - Band Aid release the song "Do They Know It's Christmas".
November 30 - The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.

December 1 - Controlled Impact Demonstration NASA crashes remote controlled Boeing 720
December 2 - Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
December 3 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
December 3 - British Telecom is privatised.
December 4 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.
December 19 - The People's Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
December 22 - Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime, which is a plague in 1980s America.
December 22 - In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
December 28 - A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.
December 31 - Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.

 

[MrToughPants]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984#Events_of_1984

Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, is first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spreads across the United States in what came to be known as the Crack Epidemic.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

My parents had sex.

 

[Escape Goat]

*posts everything that happened during the 365 days in 1982*

 

[SpoonyBard]

Elvis died.

 

[Junpei Heat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990

nothing too interesting

! We were born the same year!

 

[StrikerObi]

I'm a gonna list only the stuff I think is neat

1983
- red rain falls in britain from sand in the droplets carried over from the sahara desert
-wah mee massacre 13 die in a robbery attempt in seattle
-MASH ends its tv run
-strategic defence initiative- STAR WARS
-gandi wins 8 oscars
-pioneer 10 leaves the solar system, first manmade object to do so
-the NES launches in japan
-a korean passanger jet is shot down upon entering soviet airspace killing 269 people

There's alot that happened actually.

This stuff.

 

[Bad_Boy]

 

[fmcato]

Failed coup d'etat in Spain, tanks on the streets and everything.

 

[Hellsing321]

1987

January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

January 5 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery, causing speculation about his physical fitness to continue in office.

January 25 - The New York Giants defeat the Denver Broncos, 39-20, in Super Bowl XXI to win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1956.

February 12 - A Unabomber bomb explodes in Salt Lake City, Utah.
February 20 - A second Unabomber bomb explodes at the Salt Lake City computer store; the owner is injured.

February 26 - Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his National Security staff.

March 4 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses the American people on the Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had 'deteriorated' into an arms-for-hostages deal.

March 6 - Zeebrugge Disaster - A cross-channel ferry capsizes outside the harbor off Zeebrugge, Belgium - 180 drown.

April 19 - The first appearance of The Simpsons on The Tracy Ullman Show.

May 17 - Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31), while patrolling the Persian Gulf, is struck by two Exocet missiles from an Iraqi F-1 Mirage fighter, killing 37 sailors and injuring 21 other crew members

May 20 - Tennessee court rules that WWF can not promote Harley Race as the King of Wrestling in Tennessee upholding Jerry Lawler's claim.

June 10 - During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

June 11 - United Kingdom general election, 1987: Margaret Thatcher is elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the third time.

June 19 - In the case of Edwards v. Aguillard, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution was taught was unconstitutional.

July 1 - The Single European Act is passed by the European Union.

July 3 - In the Soviet Union, Vladimir Nikolayev is sentenced to death for cannibalism.

July 11 - World population reached 5 billion people, according to the United Nations.

August 9 - Nine people die and 17 are injured when 19-year-old Julian Knight goes on a shooting rampage in Melbourne.

August 22 - The Legend of Zelda released for the NES in North America.

September 7-September 21 - The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

October 8 - Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer is born

October 25 - The Minnesota Twins shock the baseball world by winning the World Series, when they only won 85 games in the regular season, only winning 29 (.358 WP) on the road.

November 18 - The King's Cross fire on the London Underground kills 31.

December 8 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

December 8 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

December 18 - Square Co., Ltd. releases Final Fantasy in Japan for the Famicom.

December 29 - Prozac makes its debut in the United States.

Busy year.

 

[Brad]

! We were born the same year!

As was I.

 

[goomba]

1980

John Lennon murdered

 

[Femmeworth]

! We were born the same year!

Oh yeah, I forget that you were born the same year as I. >_>

 

[Fallout-NL]

They released this masterpiece in 1984.

 

[HomShaBom]

America gained independence from Great Britain.

 

[Koojay]

1989:

January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.

April 21 - Nintendo begins selling the Game Boy in Japan.

August 14 - The Sega Genesis is released in North America.

December 17 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on FOX.

July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe is born.

This

 

[pCeSlAyEr]

My parents had sex.

so your parents had sex the day you were born... ok... b4, during or after labor?