Posted on 10/20/2009 12:23:35 PM PDT by navysealdad
Click on the year you were born and read the news for that year. From 1900 to 2006.
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World events:
France withdraws forces from NATO
U.S. Events:
Medicare begins
Federal spending:
$134.53 Billion
Unemployment:
4.5%
Federal Debt:
328.5 Billion
All in the Family debuts on CBS and introduces a trend in socially conscious programming.
The 10th anniversary of D-Day
The term “Rock and Roll” was coined. YEAH!
Yikes!!! I see that on the year of my birth, 1950, the Phillies played the Yankees in the World series. Now it’s likely to happen again. Are we approaching the beginning or end of some cosmic cycle?
“The Honeymooners” debuts with Jackie Gleason (1952).
I’m getting old :>)
I was born in 1969, I get to “read” the news from that year every time I hit a milestone birthday (40th anniversary of Woodstock, the moon landing, Monday Night Football, Monty Python, and a few other things I’ve gotten too senile to remember).
St. Lawrence Seaway was completed.
Reds pitcher Willard Schmidt was the first major league baseball player to be hit by a pitch twice in the same inning in a game against the Milwaukee Braves, once by Lew Burdette and once by Bob Rush.
I started my second tour in Vietnam the year you were born....*L*
Sputnik.
Glad you came back to tell the tale. I’m definitely hitting that “what do you mean that happened before you were born” section of aging, causes me to hate my friends kids.
Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of USSR Communist Party, denounces Stalin's excesses (Feb. 24). First aerial H-bomb tested over Namu islet, Bikini Atoll > 10 million tons TNT equivalent (May 21). Workers' uprising against Communist rule in Poznan, Poland, is crushed (June 28–30); rebellion inspires Hungarian students to stage a protest against Communism in Budapest (Oct. 23). Egypt takes control of Suez Canal (July 26). Hungarian rebellion forces Soviet troops to withdraw from Budapest (Oct.). Israel launches attack on Egypt's Sinai peninsula and drives toward Suez Canal (Oct. 29). Imre Nagy announces Hungary's withdrawal from Warsaw Pact (Nov. 1); Soviet troops enter and reclaim Budapest (Nov. 4). British and French invade Port Said on the Suez Canal (Nov. 5). Cease-fire forced by U.S. pressure stops British, French, and Israeli advance (Nov. 6). Morocco gains independence. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Allen (NAMBLA) Ginsberg's Howl.
US GDP (1998 dollars): $438 billion Federal spending: $70.64 billion Federal debt: $272.7 billion Consumer Price Index: 27.2 Unemployment: 4.4% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
hmmm. Tet offensive, MLK and RFK slain. Bad baseball year Detroit beat Cards 4-3
Go Cards.
*LOL*
4later
COOL!!!
1945. Nothing much happened. Not that I noticed, anyway.
I had an eventfull year....
Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US (Jan. 20).
Stonewall riot in New York City marks beginning of gay rights movement (June 28).
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of fatal accident at Chappaquiddick, Mass. (July 18) in which Mary Jo Kopechne was drowned—gets two-month suspended sentence (July 25). Background: Timeline of Kennedy tragedies
Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., —take first walk on the Moon (July 20).
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