Year U Were Born

[littlebabynothing79]

I hope this is ok under this kinda heading type thing.

What year were you born and what happened if anything if you know that stands out in history.

I was born in 1979 and thats when the Iron Lady came into power..if I'm right?

[relic]

Late December back in '63 .................. they even wrote a song about it

relic

[Pimpf]

1981...just looked on the net for a few key events :P

*France officially abolishes the death penalty and with it the guillotine
*President Reagan shot in attempted assassination
*Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles married
*BMW develop first in car computer, to monitor engine performance
*PacMan fever dominated video arcade games
*IBM lanches its first personal computer
*NASA space shuttle makes maiden flight

[Platypus]

I was born in 1985, probably a pretty bad year. The best thing that happened was 'Back To The Future' getting released, one of my favourite films. Musically it seems to have been not fantastic, I think 'Careless Whisper' or something was the biggest song. And the horrible post-Mick Jones 'Cut The Crap' Clash were still touring and polluting the memory, so that wasn't great either. I don't think any really great albums came out that year.

[James]

Ooh!!! I was born in 1985 too! Can't say i've found anything interesting about it! Guess you could say that the Miner's Strike ended (cue thoughts of 15-year-olds going back to school....[an old joke from my History class :rolleyes:]) OH DEAR!!!

[Amanda Graceywire]

I was born in 1982. Off the top of my head, that's the same year as Prince William (heh, *very* off the top of my head, that!), and the No. 1 on the day I was born was Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come On Eileen. More facts when I remember them (dodgy post-midnight brain at the mo :))

[Pimpf]

Originally posted by Platypus
I was born in 1985, probably a pretty bad year.....
I don't think any really great albums came out that year.

'Meat is Murder' by the Smiths :)

[Sleepflower]

Was born in 1987. Wasn't that the year guns n' roses apetitie for destruction came out? Not sure about anything else!

[Pimpf]

Originally posted by Sleepflower
Was born in 1987. Wasn't that the year guns n' roses apetitie for destruction came out? Not sure about anything else!

The Smiths 'Strangeways here we come' :P

You know when you're starting to get older when someone says the year they were born and you think 'Shit, I remember what I was doing that year and you didn't even exist'.. :( I was in Benidorm in 1987 and I remember it very clearly..

[Niko]

1983.

CD's are first released.

Micheal Jackson's 'Thriller', The Police's 'Every Breath You Take' (which also happened to be the number 1 on my birthday...) oh and some shit about Australia winning the America's Cup (this was apparantly a big event...)

[Joe]

1986.

> I was born
> Centenery of Statue of Liberty [wow :rolleyes: ]

Can't think of any albums released off the top of my head. :confused:

[Pimpf]

Originally posted by Joe
1986.

> I was born
> Centenery of Statue of Liberty [wow :rolleyes: ]

Can't think of any albums released off the top of my head. :confused:

The Smiths 'The Queen is dead' ;)
:p

[Amanda Graceywire]

*imagines Darryl sat in front of The Smiths' discography 24/7*

*gets worried*

*realises she does the same Manics-wise, gives up*

;) ;)

[Sven945]

1988, the year that graham chapman died :(

Ireland beat England in the European Championships
Ben Johnson was disqualified after winning the 100m Olympic gold medal
Wimbledon beat Liverpool in the greatest FA Cup Final shock of all time
(thanks to gar for those :))

Carley Capital Group, attempting to make the Carolina Theatre more modern and appealing and to fit better with CityFair, removes all the seats, railings, equipment, and decorations in an attempt to build a restaurant and combination bar and disco. In the middle of the year, for their own purposes, they demolished the lobby and office and retail space after declaring it themselves to be unsound. The lobby was never found to be lacking structurally. Later in the year, Carley Capital Group, citing financial problems, stops all work.
(thanks to B for that one :))

jack

[Takk]

Well 1984.

Indira Gandhi assassinated.
Bhopal Disaster.
HI virus is discovered.
The Soviets boycott the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
Reagan re-elected in landslide election.
Michael Jackson's hair caught fire.
Apple Mac introduced.

On the day of my birthday, neil kinnock resigned (albeit not in 1984).

[Irishpunktom]

1982



Hmm

Thatcher had her own little War For Oil against the Argentinians over the Falklands...

Israel launched a massive attack on Lebanon...

Lebanese Christian Phalangists, with the best wishes of Ariel Sharon, kill hundreds of people in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut so Sharon loses his job.

Brezhnev dies.

Italy Beat West Germany 3 -1 in the world cup final.



hmmm

that was all two decades ago.

[Void]

1983.

The year before 1984. Which was a book. Yep.

[Amanda Graceywire]

Originally posted by Irishpunktom

<things>

that was all two decades ago.

Thanks for them! I knew stuff like that happened but it just wouldn't get in my brain the other day :(

[Manicben]

1985

CDs came out i believe

[10km]

1983

and I don't know what happened then (except for the things other people posted here :))

[Culture_Claire]

1986 and according to I love 1986
>Kylie and Jason had the country in tears when they got hitched.
>A love story for both the sexes: Top Gun was full of toys for boys.
>Spitting Image spent 3 weeks at number one.
>Big glasses and white boxers were the flavour of the year.
>Panini Football Stickers could be found in every playground.

[Sleepflower]

Originally posted by Pimpf
The Smiths 'Strangeways here we come' :P

You know when you're starting to get older when someone says the year they were born and you think 'Shit, I remember what I was doing that year and you didn't even exist'.. :( I was in Benidorm in 1987 and I remember it very clearly..

Aw :( you're only as old as you feel :D

[Sleepflower]

Originally posted by Pimpf
The Smiths 'The Queen is dead' ;)
:p

Do you like the Smiths my any chance ;)

[Joe]

Originally posted by Sleepflower
Aw :( you're only as old as you feel :D

I'm 16 and feel about 40 though!

[relic]

Originally posted by Joe
I'm 16 and feel about 40 though!

:D I'm about 40 and feel 16 :D

relic

[socialist cook]

1985 and I was born on Pele's birthday- unfortunately as i was to later find out on the school playground i was deemed never to be more than a utility player;) :D

[swelegant]

1985

I have no idea what happened that year though, except for what other people have said. My birthday is an event in itself :)

[Sleepflower]

Originally posted by Joe
I'm 16 and feel about 40 though!

Lol! I'm just like that! When I get to 40 I will be the most boring person *ever* and will not want to move because my bones won't let me :lol:

[Sleepflower]

Originally posted by relic
:D I'm about 40 and feel 16 :D

relic

Only one thing to do, swap places! :D

[Rachey]

i was born in 1987 the day after the little hurricane, y'know, the one where michael fish said 'it's not going to rain, they'll be a slight breeze' when in fact trees fell over??? the Smiths fell apart :cry: before releasing 'Strangeway's...' and i think that's all...
rachael

[relic]

Originally posted by Rachey
i was born in 1987 the day after the little hurricane, y'know, the one where michael fish said 'it's not going to rain, they'll be a slight breeze' when in fact trees fell over??? the Smiths fell apart :cry: before releasing 'Strangeway's...' and i think that's all...
rachael

I remember that day clearly. I was frantically trying to get in touch with friends in the South East, and relatives in the South West to see if everyone was OK. It was pretty windy in Bolton the day after the hurricane, and I was a lot slimmer than I am now. I had to grab onto a lamp post at one point to avoid being blown away.

relic

[theraven1979]

1975 - before punk - unfortunatley any safety pins were through my nappy at the time :(

[Laura Claudia]

1985.

[littlebabynothing79]

I remember that hurricane well. We (me and my mum) sat up all night cos we so scared. My dad was a night shift worker then. It was really severe here. The New Forest has never recovered.
I remember the school shed had blown off, the trees had fallen and windows had been smashed.
The following night we had a school disco :o Jive Bunny was the 'thing' then :confused: I'm feeling old :eek:

[Melancholy_Flower]

Born 1980. My mum was pregnant with me when Ian Curtis hanged himself...

[relic]

Originally posted by Melancholy_Flower
Born 1980. My mum was pregnant with me when Ian Curtis hanged himself...

My mother was pregnant with me during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and when JFK was shot. No wonder I grew up paranoid.

relic

[dresden]

1986 :(
- Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
- Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes

Dunno, but I hate that year. I wish I had never been born ...

[Littlesue]

I'm 45, thinks I'm 21 but looks about 72!!

[Col]

1980, the year John Lennon was Murdered :cry:

[Dancing May Girl]

1979


Three Mile Island, Patty Hearst, Sid Vicious, Afghanistan, Karen Silkwood, Khomein,Thatcher, Sandinistas, Lord Mountbatten and IRA, Iran Hostage crisis, Bruce George Peter Lee, Mother Theresa gets her Nobel prize.

[Manic Matt]

1985. If you want to know what happened in that year, just listen to the song.

[Ally]

1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982

[Louise Mitch]

I'm 45, thinks I'm 21 but looks about 72!!
No you do not, you look fab.

I was born in 1964, the year Nelson Mandela was sentanced to life in prison, and Rob Lowe was born. http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b320/louisemitch/Rob20Lowe.jpg

[richeysite]

No you do not, you look fab.

I was born in 1964, the year Nelson Mandela was sentanced to life in prison, and Rob Lowe was born. http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b320/louisemitch/Rob20Lowe.jpg
I always think of 1964 as the year the Beatles conquered America.

[Guernica]

Haha, here's a REAL history lesson for you young'uns! ;)

1958

Treaty of Rome, founding the EU, is implemented.
Castro begins attacks on Havana.
1st CND March.
Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 to win the 1958 World Cup.
NASA created.
DeGaulle returns to power, and a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
Van Cliburn wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in the USSR, breaking cold war tensions.

(Wikipedia is my friend.)

[Louise Mitch]

I always think of 1964 as the year the Beatles conquered America.

Twas a great year :mrgreen:

[Col]

Haha, here's a REAL history lesson for you young'uns! ;)

1958

Treaty of Rome, founding the EU, is implemented.
Castro begins attacks on Havana.
1st CND March.
Brazil beats Sweden 5-2 to win the 1958 World Cup.
NASA created.
DeGaulle returns to power, and a majority of 79% says yes to the constitution of the Fifth Republic.
Van Cliburn wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in the USSR, breaking cold war tensions.

(Wikipedia is my friend.)


dont forget Wales got to the Quaterfinals of the 1958 world cup.

[Guernica]

dont forget Wales got to the Quaterfinals of the 1958 world cup.

Haha, now that IS history!! :twisted:

[koolkitty116]

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

A few things that happened, picked out from the list on Wikipedia: :mrgreen:

January 23 - Pop star Michael Jackson's scalp is seriously burned by pyrotechnics during filming of a Pepsi commercial. :lol:

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.

September 4 - The Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends television series was first broadcasted on ITV.

November 25 - 36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid and recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

[Col]

Haha, now that IS history!! :twisted:


The English hang on to 1966 enough, so the Welsh hang on to 1958, well I do anyway ;)

[pretty like drugs]

1989 - fall of the Berlin Wall.

[Fred Jones]

14th july 1989

i don't think anything cool happened

[Louise Mitch]

14th july 1989

i don't think anything cool happened

You were born! :cool:

[Lone Architect]

1984 - Orwell was only a few decades out.

Interestingly my dad has given me the newspaper from the day after I was born (therefore containing the events from my birth day itself) and it was all panic in India about the Gandhi death and the consequences.

Also Liverpool won the European Cup that year which must have pleased my mum. Pity I grew up following Man Utd like my dad...

[Jennie Wren]

What happened in 1979:
There are riots in Southall between demonstrators and police after protesting against a National Front campaign meeting.


The first Nike Air trainers become available in stores. Other must have accessories included Kangol hats, nameplate belts buckles, Adidas shell top trainers and hooded sweatshirts.


The Caribbean islands of St Lucia and St Vincent reclaimed their independence from Great Britain.


In the USA, Carter asked congress to make a Martin Luther King's Birthday a national holiday

[Karen]

I was born in 1974.

Queen released their album "Sheer Heart Attack".

Robbie Williams & Victoria Beckham were born (god help us!!!).

Kate Moss, Christian Bale, Ian Huntley (child murderer), Shavo Odadjian (System Of A Down), Alanis Morissette were also born.

Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst

Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

Ian Balls fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.

Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9)

The Guildford Pub Bombings at The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars kill 5 people, lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the Guildford Four the next year

Lord Lucan disappears

[Guernica]

I'd forgotten what an interesting year '74 was, Karen. Wow.

[Punk Skins]

1983 Music

The UK singles chart starts to use electronic terminals in selected stores to gather sales information.

Dinosaur Jr. forms
Megadeth form
Red Hot Chili Peppers form

Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins
Colour By Numbers - Culture Club
Back to the Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks
Self-Destruction Blues Hanoi Rocks
Madness - Madness
Kill 'Em All - Metallica
Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order
Bark At the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
Synchronicity - The Police
Subterranean Jungle - The Ramones
Murmur - R.E.M.
Confusion Is Sex - Sonic Youth
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
Thunder and Lightning - Thin Lizzy
Under A Blood Red Sky - U2
War - U2

And The Worst Album goes to ...
Labour Of Love - UB40

and special mention to the first
Now That's What I Call Music!

Karen Carpenter, dies of anorexia nervosa
Dennis Wilson dies from drowninding

[Karen]

I'd forgotten what an interesting year '74 was, Karen. Wow.

You're welcome! I found the info on Wilkpedia.

[Beat Poet]

1984, how about that.

[rpmacmurphy]

1974:

Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0 in the FA cup final :cool:

[littlebabyeverything]

Events
January 1 - Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up
January - Altair 8800 is released, sparking the era of the microcomputer
February 11 - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
February 21 - Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison
February 23 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
March 7 - The body of teenage heiress Lesley Whittle, kidnapped seven weeks earlier by the Black Panther is discovered in Staffordshire, England
March 9 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins
March 25 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness - the killer is beheaded on June 18.
April 25 - Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 30 - Vietnam War: The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally.
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May
May 16 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
June 5 - The United Kingdom votes yes in a referendum on staying in the European Community
August 15 - Birmingham Six wrongfully sentenced to life imprisonment

September 5 - In Sacramento, California, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of incarcerated cult leader Charles Manson, attempts to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
September 14 - Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch" is slashed a dozen times at a gallery in Amsterdam.
September 15 - The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
October 9 - A bomb explosion outside Green Park tube station near Piccadilly in London kills 1 and injures 20.
October 29 - Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.
November 6 - Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara
November 27 - Ross McWhirter, the co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot dead by the PIRA for offering reward money to informers
November 28 - Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor
November 29 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft became a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
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December
December 7 - East Timor invaded by Indonesia.
December 21 - Left-wing terrorists, including Carlos (the Jackal), kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna. They kill three hostages, extort $5 million ransom and escape into the Middle East.
December 29 - A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport killing 11.

Born
May 2 - David Beckham, English footballer
May 27 - Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality
June 4 - Angelina Jolie, American actress
October 5 - Kate Winslet, British actress
December 30 - Tiger Woods, American golfer

Died
November 29 - Graham Hill, English race car driver (b. 1929)

[addiction_to_oxymoron]

i was born in 1988...


*sigh*

[Thom Webbe]

from what i know
on the day i was born, altered images played happy birthday on TOTP
but then again, it's prerecorded

[That*Manics*Feeling]

1986

Major Events of 1986

Challenger Space Shuttle explodes killing 7 astronauts.

Chernobyl Accident (first nuclear disaster) in Soviet Union.

Iran-Contra (1985) revealed to public.

Corazon Aquino assumes presidency of The Philippines deposing Ferdinand Marcos.

US bombs Libya.

Argentina wins soccer World Cup. England knocked out 2-1 in Quarter Finals by Argentina, including Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal. :rolleyes: gayboy

[Col]

1986

Major Events of 1986

Challenger Space Shuttle explodes killing 7 astronauts.



I can just about remember that happening and seeing it on the news, and when I see the footage of Challenger exploding now it takes me back to that day.

[The Wibbler]

1987: Revealed in a study last year to be the most depressing year ever

[Karen]

October 29 - Peter Sutcliffe (the "Yorkshire Ripper") commits his first murder, Wilma McCann.

I'm reading the book her son brought out. He was only 4, 5 years old when his mum died. From then on, his life went from bad to worse.

[Karen]

Argentina wins soccer World Cup. England knocked out 2-1 in Quarter Finals by Argentina, including Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal. :rolleyes: gayboy

Whenever footage is shown from this match on TV, my stepdad gets annoyed, cos like he says, they always mention THAT goal, but rarely mention the other goal Maradona scored, which was a great goal.

[That*Manics*Feeling]

1986

Major Events of 1986

Challenger Space Shuttle explodes killing 7 astronauts.

Chernobyl Accident (first nuclear disaster) in Soviet Union.

Iran-Contra (1985) revealed to public.

Corazon Aquino assumes presidency of The Philippines deposing Ferdinand Marcos.

US bombs Libya.

Argentina wins soccer World Cup. England knocked out 2-1 in Quarter Finals by Argentina, including Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" goal. :rolleyes: gayboy

I can tell why I'm such a clumsey sod now, what with all them explosions and stuff!!

[cat:faces]

Born in 1988 i was indeed so just downloaded a load of events

Clapham Junction rail crash

Piper Alpha oil rig disaster

First woman sails non-stop around the world

Air show crash, Ramstein, Germany

Violence on the football terraces

Salmonella in eggs scare

Iraq-Iran war ends

Dublin celebrates 1000 years

After 4 yrs no compensation for carbide explosion victims, Bhopal, India

Northern Ireland butterfly house opened

Lockerbie plane crash

Hidden Egyptian antiquities found at Highclere, England

Drought in USA

Aboriginal protests over Australia’s 200 year celebrations

North sea pollution

Mystery virus threatens seal population

Olympic Games in Seoul

Armenian earthquake, over 25,000 dead

Purple Rhododendron threatens Snowdonia National Park

And apparently Die Hard was released
Haha What a happy year.

[Cheryl Mason]

"Daddy" Rice, the original Jim Crow (he blacked up and sang racially abusive songs, the most famous of which was "Jim Crow"), died in poverty in 1860 on the same day of the year I was born.

Fucking ace. :cool:

[Karen]

Air show crash, Ramstein, Germany

Which is where the band Rammstein took their name from.

[Alive2000]

According to Wikipedia...

1985

March 15 - The first .com domain name, symbolics.com, is registered by the Symbolics corporation. However, in this early stage of the rollout of domain names, .edu domains, for educational institutions, still predominate over the commercial .com ones.

That's all that turned up with. And I've got the same birthday as that Drug-riddled ass, Jack Osbourne (11/8).

And Bram Fucking Stoker, but not in '85... Obviously... But I like knowing that I was born the same day the guy who wrote Dr. Acula. did.

Ah well. This post wasted everyone's time.

[Gillyflower]

Twas a great year :mrgreen:It sure was: Marcellin Caillou was born :mrgreen:

I was born in 1963..
* First ever Doctor Who screened on British TV - 23 November (I was born on the 2nd)
* JFK assassinated
* Profumo Affair
* Martin Luther King Jr "I have a dream...."
* Music: Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies

[Jennie Wren]

Everyone's soooo young .... end of self pity bit :o

[*lisa simpson*]

if no one's suggested it, try wiki-ing events of your year - it will give a list of just about everything that happened anywhere in that year :)

mine is 1976, and here are the highlights :D

jan
first commercial flight of concord

feb
leap year
cuba's constitution enacted

mar
harold wilson resigns

apr
apple computer co founded (and oh how i love it now :heart: :X )
the first tianemen incident happened involving literature against the gang of four (not the band, obviously)

may
not a lot

june
riots that signal the beginning of the end of apartheid
us ambassador murdered in beirut
hijacking of air france plane by palestinians which is then stormed in kenya by israeli military

july
unificication of north and south vietnam
us supreme court rules that the death penalty is a justifiable form of punishment (nasty people)
us celebrates bicentennial
montreal olympics kick off
viking 1 lands on mars, and takes a picture of a face (eh?)
uk breaks off diplomatic ties with uganda

aug
i was born :good: (and elton john and kiki dee were number one :rolleyes: )
trinidad and tobago become a republic
big ben suffers internal damage and doesn't work (how random!)

sept
viking 2 lands on mars
a soviet pilot claims asylum in the us

oct
thai dictatorship massacres students who protest

nov
jimmy carter elected us president
first megamouth shark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamouth_Shark) is discovered

dec
angola and samoa join UN

general
CN tower is built
first laser printer is used
uk has hottest summer since 1772

records
new rose - the damned
rumours - fleetwood mac
how dare you! - 10cc
rocks - aerosmith
goes to hell - alice cooper
15 big ones - beach boys
technical ecstasy - black sabbath
blondie
agents of fortune - blue oyster cult
let's stick together - bryan ferry
another passenger - carly simon
a kind of hush - the carpenters
bigger than both of us - hall and oates
station to station - bowie
made in europe - deep purple
diana ross
4 seasons/love trilogy - donna summer
a new world record - elo
blue moves - elton john
zoot allures - frank zappa
a trick of the tail - genesis
born to die - grand funk railroad
steal your face - grateful dead
dreamboat annie - heart
the pretender - jackson browne
in the pocket - james taylor
hejira - joni mitchell
look into the future - journey
destroyer - kiss
the man machine - kraftwerk
presence - led zeppelin
gimme back my bullets - lynyrd skynyrd
the roaring silence - mannfred mann
radio ethiopia - patti smith
with love - pete townshend
a day at the races - queen
reo - reo speedwagon
viva! - roxy music
regeneration - roy orbison
nobody's fools - slade
midnight cafe - smokie
indiscreet - sparks
songs in the key of life - stevie wonder
aggro-phobia - suzie quattro
futuristic dragon - t rex
hot on the tracks - the commodores
hotel california - the eagles
snakes and ladders - the faces
the ramones
black & blue - the rolling stones
high energy - the supremes
tom petty & the heartbreakers
small change - tom waits

phew...

[*lisa simpson*]

Everyone's soooo young .... end of self pity bit :o

er, yes, from where i'm standing, so are you :P

[Nikki Katz]

I can just about remember that happening and seeing it on the news, and when I see the footage of Challenger exploding now it takes me back to that day.
Ditto. I don't think I really understood it at the time, but it still seemed odd.

Oh, I was born in 1980. Which I believe was when we sold arms to Bin Laden to help him protect Afghanistan's anarchy from the Russians. And Lennon was shot.
The Police were #1 when I was born. Don't Stand So Close To Me. Fitting, really.

[lisawired]

er, yes, from where i'm standing, so are you :P


you think you've got problems................. :lol:

[*lisa simpson*]

Challenger Space Shuttle explodes killing 7 astronauts.

Chernobyl Accident (first nuclear disaster) in Soviet Union.


i remember those SO clearly. i remember my mum and brother and i gathered around the telly to watch the news which had live footage of the challenger take off. and i remember us all watching, live, as it blew up and just being speechless. i think one of us asked mum whether it had really done that. it was just awful.

chernobyl i remember really clearly on the news, and them saying that sheep in scotland were affected by the fallout. also, my cousin was being an au pair in northern germany just after it happened and her host family were adamant that she shouldn't eat any fruit from their fruit bowl and she thought they were being stingy, so ate it anyway. she has 3 kids, one with no arm, one with severe lung difficulties and a third with almost total deafness and blindess. it's highly likely that it was the fruit that did for her. it's very sad.

most of the events i remember clearly from the 80s were tragic. i guess because they had more coverage than the nice things.

[Vertigo]

1991

Motown Junk released!
And the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sonic The Hedgehog was created.
Graham Greene died on the day i was born.

*Feels Young*

[alibaba]

October 24, 1983
I share the same birthday with Rooney and the UN. lol.

[Cheryl Mason]

chernobyl i remember really clearly on the news, and them saying that sheep in scotland were affected by the fallout. also, my cousin was being an au pair in northern germany just after it happened and her host family were adamant that she shouldn't eat any fruit from their fruit bowl and she thought they were being stingy, so ate it anyway. she has 3 kids, one with no arm, one with severe lung difficulties and a third with almost total deafness and blindess. it's highly likely that it was the fruit that did for her. it's very sad.
:eek: My god! I didn't know that! Not that I would have done, but you know what I mean.

How's the Deafblind kid doing? Which school does it go to, or is it mainstreamed?

[Cheryl Mason]

1991

Motown Junk released!
And the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sonic The Hedgehog was created.
Graham Greene died on the day i was born.

*Feels Young*
:D Welcome fellow Kiwi! (I'm not actually one but my grandma is)

And you feel young because... you are young :p

[Dancing May Girl]

I remember Chernobyl all too well*shudders* Also Challenger but it was Chernobyl that made the biggest impression on me. It's 20 years since it happened and they still haven't done a shit about the reactor:rolleyes: I remember the German news and my mum being a bit worried about milk etc. Luckily Denmark didn't get hit by the 'Chernobyl Cloud'

But we had Windscale fire before Chernobyl in 1957. It was pretty bad but nothing compared to Chernobyl. Three Mile Island could have gone horribly wrong.But hey, Windscale/Sellafield has made loads of shite after 1957:rolleyes:

[Cheryl Mason]

But we had Windscale fire before Chernobyl in 1957. It was pretty bad but nothing compared to Chernobyl. Three Mile Island could have gone horribly wrong.But hey, Windscale/Sellafield has made loads of shite after 1957:rolleyes:
It's just down the road from my dad's hometown. That explains a lot :lol:

[Dancing May Girl]

I went to Sellafield on a school trip in 1996 or 1997:lol:

[mafiamonroe]

69- lovely Bryan Adams wrote a brilliant song about it!

[Cheryl Mason]

I went to Sellafield on a school trip in 1996 or 1997:lol:
:surprise: You should have told me!!! That would have alleviated the boredom SOOO much :mrgreen: What did you think of my homeland, btw?

[Dancing May Girl]

:surprise: You should have told me!!! That would have alleviated the boredom SOOO much :mrgreen: What did you think of my homeland, btw?

It was quite pretty even if it was in April and the weather were shitty. Also the bus was the most fucked up one i've been in!:eek: Sellafield was quite interesting to see. I even didn't attack the person who showed us around. He was quite honest about it and I know they would try to avoid answering the questions anyway. The had a great buffy though even if we didn't want to know where they got the shrimps from;)

But the funniest thing was when a bloke from my class taped his face with gaffa tape! He regret it so much when he had to take it off. He didn't have much eyebrow left!!