Wasn’t that the ONLY Golden Earring song? And why the hell do I keep hearing it on the “Classic Rock” radio stations?
I went to my first Rolling Stones concert in July 1966…seven months before I was born. I couldn’t see Mick dance, but I’m sure I could hear him sing.
Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” was released on the day I was born.
The first Superbowl was held the month before I was born.
The Summer of Love followed my birth.
I watched the Apollo 11 lunar landing and there’s a picture of me in front of the TV to prove it.
let’s see here…
According to Scope Systems ‘Any Day in History’,
I am exactly 1 year older than Alyssa Milano, and 100 years younger than corrugated paper.
My birthday is World Underdog Day.
When I was born, NASA launched the Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp.
I can have my B-day party with Jenifer Beals, Marianne Faithfull and Leonid Brezhnev (now that’s a recipe for a good time!)
As for the Chinese zodiac, I’m a pig, dude.
–sublight.
And I caught my first fish the day Nixon resigned.
I was born in 1978. My baby book notes that the most popular movie at the time is Saturday Night Fever. I was born the same week (a couple days earlier) than the first test tube baby, and my parents kept the cover of Newsweek, which is a picture of her, with the caption “THAT BABY!”
The first president I can remember is Reagan.
I remember watching Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Olympics. I was six.
I distinctly recall my first grade teacher talking about the election of Corazon Acquino in the Phillipines.
I was in sixth grade when the Soviet Union broke apart.
The Persian Gulf War took place when I was in seventh grade.
I was a senior in high school during the interminable OJ trial.
I cast my first-ever vote for Bill Clinton in 1996, four months after I turned 18.
Oh, and I’m 22 right now.
I was born the same year Star Wars was released.
I think I was in Jr. High when the Berlin wall came down.
My favorite toys as a kid were my Fisher Price record player and my Big Wheel.
My little brother had a metal dump truck.
I remember getting our first VCR and when my parents started making us wear seat belts “cuz its the law”.
I remember my parents had an old 8-track player.
I typed my papers on a computer in grade school. (Then again my dad was into computers pretty early-- he has a “portable computer” that is the size of my tower, complete with full size keyboard and mini-tv.)
I loved to play Pac-Man on Atari.
We had a system-8 in kindergarden.
Also in kindergarden, we did an “ET phone home” project where we all had to learn our phone numbers.
753 -BC- Traditional date of the foundation of Rome
1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
1828 Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1836 Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
1855 1st train crosses Miss River’s 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
1892 1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
1898 Phillies’ pitcher Bill Duggleby hits a grand slam on 1st at bat
1898 Spanish-American War begins
1963 Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1965 New York World’s Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1967 Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1967 Military coup in Greece
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin’s daughter) defects in NYC
1969 Record 1,152 starters compete in Boston Marathon
1972 John Young & Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16)
1972 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 4 (Copernicus) launched
i wanted to see what had happend on my birthday and i have posted quite a few things. my source was: http://www.scopesys.com/anyday
I was born the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the year Marilyn Monroe died, and the year they found Bill Barilko’s body.
Johnny Carson took over the Tonight Show, I Left My Heart in San Francisco won the Grammy for Record of the Year, and the first trans-Atlantic satellite TV broadcast took place.
The Beatles released Meet the Beatles on my second birthday.
Thanks anya marie! By way of a marvellous coincidence of sharing a brithday, you have saved me the trouble of doing any research!
I don’t remember to much about 1955… But my older brother told me that I washed ashore… Was he mean or what???
I was born at the tail end of the baby boom in the middle of '61. Not old enough to fit in with them but old enough to remember a few common memories.
Gary Cooper died the day I was born but more important are the things I can remember from childhood.
My dad’s new truck had the gas tank inside the cab.
He put Ethyl gasoline in it.
We got gat at the Pixie, an independantly owned “filling station” with two pumps.
Mom’s car, a '59 Ford Country Squire had the massive, optional police pursuit engine. “Sports” cars today should have so much power.
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour had radical politics that got it cancelled.
Ed Sullivan was still going strong. “And now, something for the youngsters, the Rolling Stones.”
Red Skelton closed his show with “good night and God Bless.”
(can you tell I watched a lot of television?)
Jackie Gleason’s show was live from Miami Beach.
The June Taylor dancers on the same show were some hot babes. Remember the overhead shots of them forming sunburst patterns on the stage?
Jackie had Honeymooner’s sketches on that show so I thought Shiela McRae was the real Alice Kramden.
We actually had schoolyard chants about George Wallace, Hubert Humphrey and R.M. Nixon in '68. Our personal choice came not from who our parents supported, but that was thought Wallace had the coolest name.
My schoolyard chums and I expected to fight in Viet Nam when we grew up.
We we too young to remember Kennedy so we never knew a president better looking than Lynden Johnson. <shudder>
I remember being a baffled eight year old seeing 2001: A Space Oddyssey at the drive in. The space stuff was cool but I didn’t get the part with the monkeys at all. I didn’t even know what to make of the ending.
I remember Wally Schirrah doing Tang commercials.
Duck and cover was still taught. Tucson was a cluster of Minuteman ICMB silos and probably would have been vaporized if the shit had hit the fan.
My grandfather was wary of “them Rooshins” starting something so we had an invitation to come to the ranch in Montana in case of trouble.
Until it was torn down I never knew a world without a Berlin Wall.
Arizona had locally brewed A1 beer.
