# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/41 "2003-07-28T18:22:43Z")
The Hula Hoop was introduced Elvis joined the Army Explorer I was launched Postal Rates went up, first time in 26 years. ---
**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, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/42 "2003-07-28T18:28:13Z")
Oh yeah I forgot…Jimmy Carter and I share the same birthday. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/43 "2003-07-28T18:50:09Z")
The Supreme court outlawed prayer in school the day I was born. Malcolm Scott Carpenter was orbiting the Earth. That’s where my parents got my name. Scott not Malcolm. Also on my birthday, The Korean war began (1950) and Custer figured it was a good day to die (1876.) ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/44 "2003-07-28T19:00:56Z")
I was born two days prior to Reagan’s inauguration in 1980. That means I get to tack on the Carter administration as being part of my lifetime. Also, the Ayatollah Khomeini (sorry if I butchered that spelling) was recently named Time magazine’s man of the year. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/45 "2003-07-28T19:40:43Z")
Ukelele King George Formby died on my birthday. He was probably more popular in England than Slim Whitman and Elvis Prese. ---
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/46 "2003-07-28T19:53:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by XJETGIRLX \* > \*\*Me too! Two days prior, to be exact. Mom always said I came in with a bang 🙂 \*\* Well, I was born seventeen days before the earthquake/eruption/explosion. Ah, to be a Taurus … 🙂 Aren’t we great! ---
**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, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/47 "2003-07-28T23:31:56Z")
Heh, I forgot; I share my birthday (different year, though) with Traci Lords. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/48 "2003-07-29T00:06:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*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.\*\* I had to look him up too, as the name didn’t ring a bell. Apparently, he’s a VJ for MTV Netherlands. On February 16, 1973, not a lot happened, apparently. Well, I did find a few interesting things for the date, if not the year: 1923 The burial vault of King Tutankhamen’s tomb is opened in Egypt. 1959 Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista. Then there’s: February 12, 1973: The first of the American POWs from North Vietnam are released. Well, I guess you could say I was born in the dying days of the Vietnam war. Ah! Turns out I share my birthday with Kathy Freeman, the Australian runner of Aboriginee descent. That’s pretty cool. Same date, but different years: Ice T, John McEnroe, and Valentino Rossi. Wow, I’m surrounded by rebels. 🙂 [sub]If only I had 10% of Rossi’s riding skills, I’d be a happy man.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/49 "2003-07-29T00:14:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*He’s cute, though. > > But then all September 10th babies are 😃 \*\* Hmph–you haven’t seen my sister Melinda. 😉 Anyway, I was born on the same date (but not the same day–they were on the other side of the International Date Line) that Jacques Picard and Don Walsh set the record for the deepest dive by going to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the bathyscape _Trieste_. I’m one day younger than the late Michael Hutchence and one day older than Nastassja Kinski. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/50 "2003-07-29T00:26:38Z")
On the day I was born, An NBC-TV special starring Miss Petula Clark aired. Former president Eisenhower lay in state in the Capitol. In the city of Mankato, Minnesota, the Mayor announced that an informal hearing had been had at Kennedy School the previous evening attended by a large delegation of residents from the Hilltop area, at which time the assessment policy for the Kennedy Storm Sewer Project had been discussed. The world’s top-ranked chess player was Bobby Fischer. Sgt. Edward B. Lama was killed in Vietnam. Gene Brabender and Gordy Lund were traded by the Baltimore Orioles to the Seattle Pilots for future Hall-of-Famer Chico Salmon. Yoko Ono’s film “Rape (Film No. 6)” premiered. No word from Siskel or Ebert. You can find some interesting stuff on the damn Internet, I tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/51 "2003-07-29T00:39:07Z")
Well. elsewhere on the planet, **Baker** , was born. Hi sis! 1954 – Eisenhower was president, it was the year of the McCarthy Army hearings and Brown vs. Topeka Board of Ed; Elvis was appearing on _Louisiana Hayride_; Saul Bellow won a National Book Award fro _The Adventures of Augie March_; and a first-class stamp cost $0.03. ---
**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 29, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/52 "2003-07-29T00:48:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > **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! \*\* Wow, thanks! Relooking, it appears that “Wild Boys” by Duran Duran was the #1 song the week I was born. Never heard of it. One thing I forgot: Some one with my first name, middle initial, and last name was born exactly one year after I was. Weird, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/53 "2003-07-29T00:53:26Z")
> [@](#): > > **XJetGirlX** : Me too! Two days prior, to be exact. Mom always said I came in with a bang. > > Well, in a way we all have something in common with you. We began with a bang. 😉 > > > [@](#): > > > > **Romansperson** : …There was a total eclipse of the sun. > > Now that is really stellar! Seriously, what an awesome beginning! > > > [@](#): > > > > **Zeldar** : I do remember seeing the picture on the front page of the paper of the A-bomb at Hiroshima. > > I remember a couple of days because of the headlines. I can remember seeing the front page with James Dean’s car on it. I didn’t know who he was. > > **Ringo** , I also remember the headline from when Stalin died. I could not remember having seen headlines that big before. > > **wakamika** : October 10, 1962 was my parents’ 25th Anniversary. I can remember that day! > > > [@](#): > > > > **bayonet1976** : quote: > > > > Originally posted by wakimika > > October 10, 1962: > > > > Cuba launches “A-Bomb” attack on Miami. > > > > I’m certain I’m being whooshed here but, huh? > > I think this is a reference to the Cuban Missle Crisis in October 1962. For three days we really thought that Cuba was going to nuke us. > [@](#): > > **dogzilla** : I was born on the same day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. It doesn’t get any better than that! Anyone nickname you “the Eagle”? Also during the three weeks following your birth, Edward Kennedy crashed his car into the Chappauquidic, the Charles Manson gang committed the Tate-LaBianca murders and Woodstock began! > [@](#): > > **Isabelle** : 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. Marilyn Monroe died in August of 1962. Was that the year you were born? > [@](#): > > **if6was9** :The Supreme court outlawed prayer in school the day I was born. So you admit it! You were born without a prayer! 🙂 > [@](#): > > **kiwiboy** : 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. Do you know if the movie _The Year of Living Dangerously_ was set during that time? > [@](#): > > **Mockingbird** : Carole King’s album Tapestry was the number one album in the United States. One of the best albums ever! > [@](#): > > **hyperelastic** In the city of Mankato, Minnesota, the Mayor announced that an informal hearing had been had at Kennedy School the previous evening attended by a large delegation of residents from the Hilltop area, at which time the assessment policy for the Kennedy Storm Sewer Project had been discussed. Now that one should earn you a special prize! Maybe the Hyperelastic Memorial Sewer Project? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/54 "2003-07-29T00:58:17Z")
**Coldfire** , I remember the New Year’s Eve before you were born. That’s the only one I’ve spent in Europe (Denmark). That’s the coldest I’ve ever been (br-r-r-r). **Super Gnat** , now that is weird! Did you find that out on the internet? And you’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/55 "2003-07-29T01:11:13Z")
I know this stuff because my parents carefully recorded it in my baby book, which I became fascinated with when I was old enough to read. The most popular movie in America was _Saturday Night Fever_. Jimmy Carter was midway through his term. Clothing fashions were godawful. The biggest news was the birth of the world’s first test tube baby (not me). Newsweek’s cover had her picture and the caption “That Baby!” which my parents saved. P.S. My birthday is tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![RNWebner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@RNWebner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RNWebner)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/56 "2003-07-29T01:27:01Z")
I was born on May, 25, 1986. For those of you who are old enough to remember, that was the day they did “hands across America.” A chain of people holding hands apparently stretched all across the country on the day I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/57 "2003-07-29T03:04:54Z")
The only thing I always remember about 1956 was that [Howl](http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jng2d/enlt255/texts/howl/howl.htm) was published. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/58 "2003-07-29T03:16:25Z")
Nine days before I was born, Alan Shepard went up in Freedom 7. 11 days after I was born, JFK made his famous speech to a joint session of congress where he said _“I believe that this nation should commit itself, before this decade is out, to landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.”_ And, on the very day I was born, riders on one of the Freedom Rider buses were attacked in Anniston, Alabama ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/59 "2003-07-29T03:53:36Z")
A flood. No, that isn’t supposed to be a sick joke. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362/60 "2003-07-29T04:17:36Z")
\*\*Zoe,\*\*Yes! I was born without a prayer! Like you don’t know! ☹ And Carole King was born on my birthday too. George Michael too. And Stalin too (I think…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-happening-about-the-time-you-were-born/191362.md?page=4)