# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/21 "2003-07-28T07:11:16Z")
Peter Sellers died the day I was born. ---
**Author:** ![xcheopis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xcheopis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xcheopis)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/22 "2003-07-28T07:23:20Z")
A few of the things that happened the year I was born: Segregation was declared illegal via the Civil Rights Act and theSupreme Court ruling in the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education. The Beatles arrived in the U.S, as did the Rolling Stones. The Communists built a Wall. Nelson Mandela begins a life imprisonment sentence. Alaska gets hit with the strongest earthquake on record for the U.S. IBM introduced the System/360. The concept of quarks was developed. N.O.W. was founded. Cassius Clay became the world heavyweight champion. Maurice Sendak publishes Where The Wild Things Are. China proves they can build atomic bombs. Lenny Bruce goes on trial for obsenity. The Black Nationalist Party is formed. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/23 "2003-07-28T07:53:10Z")
Carole King’s album Tapestry was the number one album in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/24 "2003-07-28T10:16:27Z")
Wolfman–to some of us, the Nixon scandal lasted from 1946 to the day he died. ---
**Author:** ![Rapunzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Rapunzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rapunzel)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/25 "2003-07-28T11:04:20Z")
Heather Graham was also born the same day as me. And Rolf Harris was at No 1 with Two Little Boys. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/26 "2003-07-28T11:23:29Z")
On my birthday, The Beatles released their first U.S. single, _Please Please Me_. It was also George Harrison’s 20th birthday… ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/27 "2003-07-28T11:44:28Z")
Elvis died. So did Charlie Chaplin. _Star Wars_ was released. _Rocky_ won an Oscar for Best Picture. That’s about it, I think. Pretty boring year, all round. ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/28 "2003-07-28T11:47:09Z")
October 10, 1962: The BBC banned the song “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. Actor Christopher Penn was born. Cuba launches “A-Bomb” attack on Miami. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/29 "2003-07-28T11:47:16Z")
Three days after I was born the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I don’t remember it all that well. I do remember seeing the picture on the front page of the paper of the A-bomb at Hiroshima, which would have been a few months before I turned 4. The years between those events were spent with us moving about from base to post to fort all over the South. Daddy went to Germany in time for the end of the European phase of WWII. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/30 "2003-07-28T13:24:05Z")
That nice Mr. Lincoln said to his wife, “How about taking in a play tonight?” ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/31 "2003-07-28T13:33:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wakimika \* > \*\*October 10, 1962: > > Cuba launches “A-Bomb” attack on Miami. \*\* I’m certain I’m being whooshed here but, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/32 "2003-07-28T13:53:46Z")
I was born on the same day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/33 "2003-07-28T14:06:52Z")
On the day I was born, the East Germans started building the Berlin Wall, so I totally identify with Hedwig in **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** : On August 12, 1961, a wall was erected down the middle of the city of Berlin. The world was divided by a cold war and the Berlin Wall was the most hated symbol of that divide Reviled. Graffitied. Spit upon. We thought the wall would stand forever, and now that it’s gone, we don’t know who we are anymore. Ladies and Gentlemen, Hedwig is like that wall, standing before you in the divide between East and West, Slavery and Freedom, Man and Woman, Top and Bottom. And you can try to tear her down, but before you do, remember one thing. [/quote] In other news, Judge Learned Hand died and Adolf Eichman was convicted of genocide. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/34 "2003-07-28T14:24:09Z")
UGGHHH!!! After a long post, the thing froze and thus my post didn’t show!!! Anyway, to try again: I was born in July of 1979. Nothing amazing worldwide happened that month, but 1979 was the year the hostages got taken in Iran and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The Three Mile Island nuclear plant blew up (?) the day a friend of mine was born (march 28th.) My parents preserved a newspaper from the day I was born (July 18th) so I know that: NYC was having a heat wave and Mayor Koch encouraged the city to try and conserve energy. “We Are Family” was the #1 song. In Pennsylvania and Maryland, my future husband and one of my friends, respectively, were both celebrating their first birthdays. ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/35 "2003-07-28T14:33:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avarie537 \* > Mount St. Helens blew up right around my birthday. Me too! Two days prior, to be exact. Mom always said I came in with a bang 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/36 "2003-07-28T17:33:38Z")
On the samd date (but not the same year) as my birth World War 2 started, or ended. Can’t remember which. Or was it - Hitler was born. Something like that, ack I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/37 "2003-07-28T17:52:05Z")
The Supreme Court ruled on Miranda Race Riots in Watts Medicare was formed “The Pill” was declared safe NOW was formed. At the University of Texas, a sniper shot forty four people, killing fourteen. First artificial pump was implanted in someone’s chest. There was other stuff too. It was a busy year. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/38 "2003-07-28T18:07:10Z")
WWII was not long over, people were procreating like mad, Truman was president and the U.S. was full of optimism and hope. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/39 "2003-07-28T18:12:51Z")
Hm. 1962. 1. Cuban Missile Crisis. 2. The Beatles released their first single in the UK, “Love Me Do” with “PS I Love You” on the flip side. John Lennon married Cynthia Powell. 3. Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular structure of DNA. On my birthday (February 4) in 1962: The sun, the moon, and all the planets from Mercury to Saturn were clustered within a 17-degree area of the sky, and there was a total eclipse of the sun. See, they knew I was coming. ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/40 "2003-07-28T18:13:48Z")
I think Marilyn Monroe died. I was born Oct 1 and I think she died Oct 3rd. I never make the time to check it out [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362.md?page=3)