# What was happening about the time you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362 "2003-07-28T02:48:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/1 "2003-07-28T02:48:47Z")
What events were going on in the world about the time you were born? Anything memorable that we can relate to? If you were born in late July to mid-August of 1969, I can think of at least three biggies that were happening. The week I was born was near the mid-point of World War II. The Warsaw ghetto uprising had begun a couple of months before. Roy Rogers and Trigger were on the cover of _Life_ magazine. I was born sometime between _Opus One_ and _String of Pearls_. On the day I was born, _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ was released in theaters and the French were celebrating the 154th anniversary of Bastille Day. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/2 "2003-07-28T02:51:06Z")
Anwar Sadat had just got shot. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/3 "2003-07-28T02:51:34Z")
The doctor turned to the nurse and said, “I’ve been dropping things all day.” ba-dump _crash!_ Thanks, I’ll be here all week. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/4 "2003-07-28T02:58:07Z")
I was born one day before the start of the Watts riots. “I’m Henery the Eighth I Am” (by Herman’s Hermits) was the number one song in the U.S., I missed “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by one week. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/5 "2003-07-28T03:11:51Z")
I was born three weeks before JFK was assassinated ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/6 "2003-07-28T03:17:13Z")
I was born during the height of the Nixon scandal. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/7 "2003-07-28T03:19:47Z")
The day I was born was the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/8 "2003-07-28T03:20:43Z")
Mount St. Helens blew up right around my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/9 "2003-07-28T03:35:28Z")
The Falklands War occures sometime shortly after I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Gnat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Super\_Gnat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Gnat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/10 "2003-07-28T03:43:22Z")
Counting back, I think I was born right after Reagan’s election. (1984, right?) Other than that, according to Google, absolutely nothing interesting seems to have happened in December of 1984. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/11 "2003-07-28T03:56:26Z")
Well, my mom went into labor and my dad took her to the hospital and then the doctor put the anasthetic mask on her face and grabbed the forceps– Oh, you meant historical things. Lyndon Johnson had just been elected a few days earlier. And soon I would get to grow up watching the Vietnam War on TV. Now I’m an old fogie and I’m just hunting for the proper rocking chair. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/12 "2003-07-28T04:19:05Z")
**KRC** Cough! Cough! I voted in that election!! **CalMeacham** , Rosa Parks is one of my heroes. A good day to be born! **lawoot** , I think of that month as a major turning point in my life and I think that is true for a lot of people. I think I went from kid to adult overnight. **Super Gnat** , just for you: [http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human\_Genome/project/alta.html](http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/project/alta.html) That was the beginning of the mapping of the human genome project! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/13 "2003-07-28T04:30:29Z")
Korea was approaching a Truce. Josef Stalin died. The Chevrolet Corvette, with its Blue Flame six, was hot new stuff. Playboy Magazine began publishing. Ike had just started his first term. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/14 "2003-07-28T05:11:52Z")
I was born a week or so before the Cuban Missile Crisis. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/15 "2003-07-28T05:29:22Z")
The day I was born, [Berke Breathed](http://avclub.theonion.com/avclub3728/avfeature_3728.html), creator of the comic strips _Bloom County_ and _Outland_ was celebrating his first birthday. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/16 "2003-07-28T06:02:12Z")
On the day I was born, some famous guy from the Netherlands named Seth Kamphuijs was also born. Never heard of him and I can’t figure out why he’s famous because all of the websites about him are in Dutch. He’s cute, though. But then all September 10th babies are 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kiwiboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@kiwiboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiwiboy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/17 "2003-07-28T06:14:11Z")
I was born on a day that will live in infamy - the day East Timor was invaded was by Indonesia [with the blessing of the United States](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1697248.stm). KC & the Sunshine Band were at number 1 with That’s the Way I Like it (according to the Cash Box archives). And it was the 34th anniversery of Pearl Harbour. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/18 "2003-07-28T06:15:25Z")
Pablo Picasso died the day I was born. ---
**Author:** ![skander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@skander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skander)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/19 "2003-07-28T06:48:33Z")
Dashiell Hammett died the day I was born. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/20 "2003-07-28T07:02:13Z")
Albert Einstein died, Disneyland opened and James Dean took his last ride. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362.md?page=2)