969 A.D. One thousand years until the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, and the Woodstock Festival.
970
971: 1,000 years before the cost of a gallon of gasoline rose to 40¢.
972
973: 1,000 years before Roe v. Wade, and the year-end Dow was 850.
CMLXXIV, as Caesar would say.
975
According to urbandictionary.com, the 976 rule is that “the physical attractiveness of a person one’s never seen before is significantly lower than the appeal of their phone voice. (the rule is based on the principle that “976” phone sex operators are generally unattractive women in trailer parks.)”
- A thousand years prior to 1977.
978: 1,000 years before the first test-tube baby is born.
- In a thousand years, I would graduate high school. Of course, had you asked me in 1975, I never thought I would graduate high school, but it happened.
980
981: 1,000 years before the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
983
Ninja’d!
984: 1,000 years before Apple releases the Macintosh computer.
985: A thousand years before the wreck of the Titanic would be found on the sea bed.
986: The Porsche 986 is the internal designation for the first generation Boxster, a mid-engined two-seater roadster introduced in late 1996.
- I gotta say, Panache, you know a lot about Porsches!
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