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From wars to elections, international incidents to civil unrest, entertainment to sports, the key defining moments of history profoundly influence who and what we are today.
So what was the most earth-shattering event on the year you were born, and how does that affect you now?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 20, 2019 2:06 PM |
Me: Disneyland in California opened.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 19, 2019 5:17 AM |
John Lennon died on my birthday, 12 years before I was born.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 19, 2019 5:59 AM |
The Soviet Union sent up sputnik a few days before my birth, no doubt to herald that blessed event
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 19, 2019 6:34 AM |
Eisenhower was elected.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 20, 2019 5:41 AM |
Watergate began, and once again it's become quite prescient.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 20, 2019 5:44 AM |
Idi Amin became president of Uganda
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 20, 2019 5:49 AM |
I guess it was Israel invading Lebanon to attack the PO. I affects me because I can remember war in the middle east my entire life.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 20, 2019 6:03 AM |
Minnie Maddern Fiske made her legitimate-stage debut.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 20, 2019 8:08 AM |
Diana died.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 20, 2019 9:48 AM |
Too much stuff going on in 1969 to choose.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 20, 2019 9:57 AM |
Stonewall?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 20, 2019 10:11 AM |
Swanson introduces TV Dinners. And the decline of American culture begins.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 20, 2019 10:23 AM |
Grease and Halloween were released in theaters.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 20, 2019 10:37 AM |
ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 20, 2019 12:53 PM |
The Cuban Missile Crisis & the death of Marilyn Monroe.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 20, 2019 1:07 PM |
JFK was murdered. Doesn't affect me.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 20, 2019 1:30 PM |
Tricky Dick resigns in disgrace
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 20, 2019 2:00 PM |
Like R16, the assassination of JFK. Doesn't affect me at all.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 20, 2019 2:03 PM |
The movie Grease was released in my birth year - 1978
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 20, 2019 2:06 PM |
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