What happened in your birth-year?

Check out this site. I found it to be pretty interesting.

What happened in my birth year?

Type in the year you were born, & it will tell a lot about what happened that year & a bit up to now even.

 

Cool site, thanks for sharing it.

 

lol....

In 1966, the world was a different place.

There was no Google yet. Or Yahoo. Or 3reef, for that matter.

In 1966, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Hawaii. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.


Remember, that was before there were DVDs. Heck, even before there was VHS. People were indeed watching movies in the cinema, and not downloading them online. Imagine the packed seats, the laughter, the excitement, the novelty. And mostly all of that without 3D computer effects.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to A Man for All Seasons. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to A Man and a Woman. The top actor was Paul Scofield for his role as Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons. The top actress was Elizabeth Taylor for her role as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. The best director? Fred Zinnemann for A Man for All Seasons.

In the year 1966, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it?

In 1966... The first Acid Test is conducted at the Fillmore, San Francisco. About 8,000 U.S. soldiers land in South Vietnam; U.S. troops now total 190,000. Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires. The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia. The Belgian government resigns. Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome. Bobbi Gibb becomes the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America. The legendary album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is released. The final new episode of The **** Van Dyke Show airs. Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York. He is not seen in public for over a year.

That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.

 

The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Shmuel Yosef Agnon. The Nobel prize for physics went to Alfred Kastler from France for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?

The 1960s were indeed a special decade. The Swinging Sixties saw the rise of counterculture. There was recreational drug use and casual sex. Many countries gained independence from their colonial rulers. Several governments turned to the left. In Britain, the Labour Party gains power. The Vietnam War continues. The Algerian War comes to a close. In the US, Hispanics fight to end racial discrimination and socioeconomic disparity. Feminism keeps rising. Art House films make it to theaters. The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones play their music. The US and Soviet Union come close to a military confrontation during the Cuba missile crisis. Nixon becomes US president. Man lands on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission of the United States. The first heart transplantation occurs. The first computer game, Spacewar, is created.

Do you remember the movie that was all the rage when you were 15? For Your Eyes Only. Do you still remember the songs playing on the radio when you were 15? Maybe it was Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. Were you in love? Who were you in love with, do you remember?

In 1966, 15 years earlier, a long time ago, the year when you were born, the song Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones topped the US charts. Do you know the lyrics? Do you know the tune? Sing along.

 

hehe, I was afraid it would never stop


Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1966. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? Space Docking.

Do you remember
Back in 1966?
Country Jesus, hillbilly blues
That's where I learned my licks
...

That's from the song Heard It on the X by Los Super Seven.

In 1966, a new character entered the world of comic books: The Mimic. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1966, Chris Rock was born. And Cindy Crawford. Scott Adams, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life.
It's 2010.

The world is a different place.

What path have you taken?

 

It seems to mostly be an adlib, with some "will be irrelevant in X years" types of sentences thrown in. I mean, in 30 years, half the people alive won't remember when books were popularly paper lol.

 

too cool. thanks.

 

It seems I was born in the USA according to that site
judging by what was apparently on TV at the time of my birth
I need to speak to my father about this, I was not aware I had been adopted and taken to England

Steve

 

haha. I thought it was funny.

Yeah, Telgar here is a lot of info, while some things(as mentioned my raven) are similar sentences with words replaced. haha Still cool though.

 

does it ever stop geez?