In 1972 (the year you were born) |
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While campaigning for the presidency Alabama Governor George C. Wallace is shot and seriously wounded Five men are arrested in the Watergate office complex in DC for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee Hurricane Agnes strikes the East Coast causing 117 deaths First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced for $395 Shaquille O’Neal, Jennifer Garner, The Rock, The Notorious B.I.G., Cameron Diaz, Eminem, and Alyssa Milano are born Oakland Athletics win the World Series Dallas Cowboys win Super Bowl VI Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup The Godfather is the top grossing film Pink Floyd debuts “The Dark Side of the Moon” during a performance at London’s Rainbow Theater “You’ve Got a Friend” by Carole King wins a Grammy for song of the year The Price is Right premieres on CBS What a great year minus the shooting and the hurricane! |
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1969 First man on the moon and Nixon was President. Need I say more?
Hell of a year. LOL
1969~Woohoo! My brother was born in 1968. We were all born in leap years consecutively!
Wow… as if I didn’t feel old already!! Here’s mine:
Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US
Sit-ins being after 4 black college students in North Carolina refuse to move from a deli counter when denied service
A U-2 reconnaissance plane belonging to the US is shot down in the Soviet Union
Hurricane “Donna” strikes the East Coast causing over 100 deaths in the US and the Antilles
John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard Nixon in the presidential race
Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight
Michael Stipe, Tony Robbins, Bono, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Jeffrey Dahmer are born
Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series
Philadelphia Eagles win the NFL championship
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is the top grossing film
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published
The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, Germany
The Flintstones debut
Thank goodness for that last one… don’t think I would’ve survived the 60’s without Fred and Wilma! LOL!
Woohoo Flintstones! I know what year you were born-lol!
LOL! Write it down somewhere for me… I hear that memory is the second thing to go!
HA! Gotcha~I’m afraid to ask~what’s the first thing to go?