Over 300 people were killed in a train wreck in India.

I was born...

the world was created, I am that old.

a plane carrying the U.S. team to the 1961 world championships crashed in a field near Brussels. All 18 skaters were killed. Sixteen coaches and other judges and international skating figures also died.

Colored televison came to the United States, to the very rich. It was several years later that black and white came to the rest of us. The division was a lot geater then!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991 also, the cold war ended

India successfully tests a atomic device, becoming the world’s sixth nuclear power Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run to beat Babe Ruth's record President Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph President Nixon resigns Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in the eighth round to regain the heavyweight crown in Zaire People magazine is published for the first time Oakland Athletics win the World Series Miami Dolphins win Superbowl VIII Philadelphia Flyers win the Stanley Cup Blazing Saddles is the top grossing film Six members of the DeFeo family were found murdered at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. Heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped by and eventually joins the Symbionese Liberation Army The World Trade Center, the tallest building in the world at 110 stories, opened in NYC The Freedom of Information Act was passed by Congress over Pres. Ford's veto. At the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, Sharon Buchanon became the first cashier to scan a Universal Product Code (UPC) code. The bar code was used on a pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum

I'm not allowed to reveal the future. One tip though, have a can opener handy.

In October the 4th, 1957 (I was born 20 days later): The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. I created a "the Russians are coming" kind of concern in the USA, the idea that we were falling behind. It led to the creation of NASA a year later, and the beginning of the Space Race. Take a look: http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/

a ferry sank which killed lots of people

my vJanuary 1 - The Colorado Buffaloes claim college football's national championship with a 10-9 win over Notre Dame in the 1991 Orange Bowl. Controversy reigns as Colorado wins the AP poll, but Georgia Tech - the nation's only unbeaten team (with one tie) - edges Colorado to win the UPI national championship by one point. January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. January 6 - Former baseball player Alan Wiggins becomes the first former major leaguer to die of AIDS. January 9 - A major collapse of ground traps 26 miners 65m below the surface at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland. The 26 men have access to a safe refuge chamber, and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted. January 10 - The SA State Government is forced to bail out the State Bank. January 11 - Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. January 12 - Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait. January 13 Soviet troops assault the Vilnius TV tower in Lithuania and kill 14 unarmed civilians; many more are injured. A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Chiefs and Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead. January 14 - Three PLO guerilla chiefs are assassinated in Tunis. January 15 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. January 16 U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men. Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq. January 17 Gulf War: Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel. Harald V of Norway becomes King on the death of his father, Olav V. January 18 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems. January 19 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola. January 20 - The dynasty of the San Francisco 49ers comes to an end as the New York Giants defeat the 49ers, 15-13, in San Francisco. The Giants win despite not scoring a touchdown, prevailing on five field goals by Matt Bahr. January 26 - Somalia President Siad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu. January 27 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19, in Super Bowl XXV. January 29 - Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia. [edit] February February Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 The Highway of Death, U.S. military decimates the Iraqi Army as it retreats from Kuwait.February 1 - A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a Skywest Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport killing 34. February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides. February 7 Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting. February 9 - Voters in Lithuania support independence. February 11 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in the Hague, Netherlands. February 13 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. Iraqi officials claim that the bunker was a bomb shelter, but United States military intelligence identified it as a military facility. February 15 - The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. February 16 - Gulf War: American and British war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing 3 others. February 18 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London. February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but said that retreating Iraqi forces would not be attacked if they left Kuwait within 24 hours. February 23 The One Meridian Plaza fire kills three firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building. Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war. February 23 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état. February 25 - Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war. February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat. February 27 - Tawheed masjid loses war again islamic center [edit] March March Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 March-April - Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran. March 1 The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated. Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture. March 3 An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers. Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union. March 4 REVA The first lady of tyler barnetts presidency March 9 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets. March 10 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf. March 11 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49. March 13 - The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. March 14 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence. March 15 Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest. Germany formally regains complete independence after the 4 post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights. March 31 - Albania has the first multi-party elections. [edit] April April Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 April 3 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6. April 4 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania. William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault. April 5 - Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States. April 9 - The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence. April 10 A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites). Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. April 14 - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum. April 17 - After approaching 3,000 in July 1990, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, closing at 3,004.46. April 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program. April 26 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas. (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak) April 29 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people. [edit] May May Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May 15 - Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier. May 16 Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives a speech to the U.S. Congress. "Muppet Vision 3-D" opens at Disney-MGM Studios. May 21 - In Madras, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated. May 24 - Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences. May 26 - In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on-board. May 28 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 7 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. May 29 - In Bari, Crvena Zvezda, Beograd won Champions Cup in Football. [edit] June June Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 June 3 - Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow (the victims are all either volcanologists or journalists). June 5 - Phil Zimmermann releases PGP v1.0, the first freely available strong cryptography. June 9 - A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit was first alerted. June 12 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the fifteen Soviet republics. Boris YeltsinJune 13 - A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open. June 15 - Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines. June 17 Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found. June 23 - Sonic the Hedgehog, a video game made by Sonic Team was released to America. This started a 16-year run that is going on in the technological and entertainment world today. June 23-June 28 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles. June 25 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. [edit] July July Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 July 1 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. July 7 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day war in Slovenia. July 10 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia. July 11 - A total Solar Eclipse is seen in Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Brazil. July 22 Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. They soon found out that he is involved in 6 more murders. July 24 - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms. July 26 - Paul Reubens (aka Peewee Herman) is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for fondling himself. [edit] August August Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web." August 7 - Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated. August 8 - The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses. August 11 - The first Nicktoon is aired at 10:00 am, Doug. August 13 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the United States. August 17 - Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself. August 19 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours. August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev. August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. August 24 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union. August 25 Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to a Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing. Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix. August 27 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union. August 29 - Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile. August 31 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union. [edit] September September Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 September 2 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. September 3 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people. September 5-September 7 - At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and 7 men are assaulted. September 6 The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic States. The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924. September 8 - The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. September 21 - Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union. September 21-September 30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions. September 22 - The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time. September 30 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power. [edit] October October Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. October 8 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia. October 11 In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR. Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful". October 11-October 13 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him. October 12 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll. October 14 - Bulgarians celebrate the end of the rule of the Communist Party. October 15 - After a bitter confirmation hearing, including sexual misconduct allegations by former aide Anita Hill, the United States Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States. October 16 - George Hennard guns down 24 people in Killeen, Texas before killing himself. October 19 - A 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake hits Northern Italy; 2,000 dead. October 20 - The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments. October 22 - Leonora Knatchbull, youngest of Lord Romsey's three children, dies of a kidney tumour at the age of five. October 27 The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland. Turkmenistan declares its independence from the USSR. The Minnesota Twins win the World Series. October 29 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. [edit] November November Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 November 2 - Australia beats England 12-6 at Twickenham Stadium to lift the Rugby World Cup. November 4 - Ronald Reagan's presidential library opens in Simi Valley. November 5 The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean (he had fallen off his yacht near the Canary Islands). David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin. November 6 - The KGB officially stops operations. November 7 Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his career in the NBA. The last oil well fire is put out in Kuwait. The first report on Carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature. November 9 - Jet fusion reactor generated 1.5 MW output power. November 14 American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile. November 18 Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free. Serbian troops take Vukovar after a siege of 87 days. November 24 - Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, dies one day after issuing a public statement confirming he had AIDS. Eric Carr, longtime KISS drummer, dies of cancer in New York. November 27 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia. November 29 - The Federal Yugoslavian Army begins to withdraw from Zagreb. [edit] December December Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 December 1 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum. December 4 Journalist Terry Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon). Pan American World Airways ends operations. December 8 Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus. A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid. December 12 - The Russian SFSR ceases to be a part of the Soviet Union. December 15 - The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450. December 19 - Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia. December 22 - One month after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen's re-release of Bohemian Rhapsody returns to the top of the British singles charts, 16 years after the original version. December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already disbanded; the 73-year-old state is now expected to dissolve completely. December 26 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. December 31 - The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist. [edit] Undated events University of South Australia founded. Impostor James Hogue exposed in Princeton University Milo Kirk elected president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Winter - Centennial of Basketball Ely Petrol Riots Bicentennial of the United States Bill of Rights; the document goes on tour to all 50 state capitals. [edit] Births [edit] January-June January 15 - Rubab Raza, Pakistan swimmer January 16 - Julie Dubela, American singer January 19 - Erin Sanders, American actress January 21 - Paige and Ryanne Kettner, American actresses January 21 - Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress February 16 - Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg February 17 - Bonnie Wright, English actress February 18 - Malese Jow, American actress March 4 - Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, model March 8 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor March 16 - Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician March 23 - George William Carnegie, British noble March 26 - Brittney Wilson, Canadian actress March 28 - Amy Bruckner, American actress April 4 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer April 10 - Amanda Michalka, American singer and actress April 10 - Sergiusz Å»ymeÅ‚ka, Polish actor April 20 - Thomas Curtis, American actor April 27 - Rebecca Ryan, British actress May 17 - Daniel Curtis Lee, American actor May 19 - Jordan Pruitt, American singer May 21 - Sarah Ramos, American actress May 26 - Julianna Rose Mauriello, American stage actress May 28 - Kristen Alderson, American actress June 4 - Jordan Hinson, American actress June 18 - Willa Holland, American model June 27 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress [edit] July-December July 5 - Jason Dolley, American actor July 6 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress July 7 - Devon Alan, American actor July 9 - Mitchel Musso, American actor July 12 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor July 14 - Lewis McGibbon, British actor August 15 - Abdus Ibrahim, American footballer August 16 - Evanna Lynch, British actress August 21 - Tess Gaerthé, Dutch singer and actress August 28 - Kyle Massey, American actor August 30 - Lauren Hartley, British actress September 4 - Carter Jenkins, American actor September 5 - Skandar Keynes, British actor September 12 - Kristin Klabunde, American actress September 21 - Zoe Weizenbaum, American actress September 25 - Emmy Clarke, American actress October 19 - Christopher Gerse, American actor October 31 - Jordan-Claire Green, American actress November 6 - Camila Finn, Brazilian model November 11 - Christa B. Allen, American actress December 9 - Prince Joachim, Archduke of Austria-Este, Belgian prince December 13 - Jay Greenberg, American music composer December 19 - Declan Galbraith, British singer For more musicians born in 1991, see 1991 in music. [edit] Deaths [edit] January January 5 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922) January 8 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960) January 11 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) January 17 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903) January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907) January 30 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) January 29 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907) [edit] February February 2 - Pete Axthelm, sportswriter (b. 1943) February 5 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903) February 6 - Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) February 6 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914) February 7 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920) February 14 - John McCone, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1902) February 21 - John Sherman Cooper, a U.S. Republican senator February 21 - Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919) February 24 - John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist and game show host (b. 1914) February 24 - George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919) [edit] March March 1 - Edwin Land, Inventor of the Polaroid™ instant camera (b. 1909) March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928) March 3 - Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895) March 12 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900) March 14 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950) March 14 - Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925) March 20 - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son. (b.1986) March 21 - Leo Fender, One of the most influential people in the development of electrical instruments (b. 1909) March 25 - Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Roman Catholic bishop who fought for Catholic Tradition (b. 1905) March 29 - Lee Atwater, American Presidential advisor (b. 1951) [edit] April April 1 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894) April 3 - Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901) April 3 - Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904) April 4 - Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911) April 4 - H. John Heinz III, U.S. Senator (plane crash) (b. 1938) April 4 - Forrest Towns, American runner (b. 1914) April 4 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920) April 5 - John Tower, former Republican Senator from Texas (b. 1929) April 8 - Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin, vocalist for Mayhem/Morbid (suicide) (b. 1969) April 10 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900) April 26 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910) April 28 - Ken Curtis, American actor (b. 1916) April 28 - Johnny Eck, American sideshow performer (b. 1911) [edit] May May 8 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (b. 1907) May 8 - Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903) May 14 - Jiang Qing, Chinese radical revolutionary (b. 1914) May 15 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956) May 21 - Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1944) May 22 - Derrick Henry Lehmer, American mathematician (b. 1905) May 24 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist (b. 1895) May 27 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (b. 1904) [edit] June June 1 - David Ruffin, American singer, The Temptations June 5 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist June 9 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903) June 14 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (b. 1907) June 15 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) [edit] July July 1 - Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936) July 4 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (murdered) (b. 1936) July 15 - Bert Convy, American game show host, actor, and singer (brain tumor) (b. 1933) July 16 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915) July 18 - André Cools, Belgian politician (assassinated) (b. 1927) July 24 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize laureate [edit] August August 1 - Chris Short, American baseball pitcher (b. 1937) August 3 - Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of Egypt August 5 - Paul Brown, American football coach (b. 1908) August 8 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930) August 11 - J.D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938) August 13 - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (b. 1907) August 14 - Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont (b. 1927) August 30 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925) August 30 - Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944) [edit] September September 2 - Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911) September 3 - Dottie West, famous country music singer. (Died after her August 30 car crash) (b. 1932) September 3 - Frank Capra, Italian-born film director (b. 1897) September 7 - Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) September 17 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902) September 24 - Dr. Seuss, American children's author (b. 1904) September 28 - Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1926) [edit] October October 6 - Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer, author of many anti-soviet songs (b. 1956) October 11 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and star of the television show Sanford and Son (b. 1922) October 22 - Leonora Knatchbull, daughter of Lord Romsey (b. 1986) October 17 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer, (b. 1919) October 24 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer, creator of Star Trek (b. 1921) [edit] November November 5 - Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media entrepreneur (b. 1923) November 24 - Eric Carr, American drummer (Kiss) (b. 1950) November 24 - Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born singer (Queen) (b. 1946) [edit] December December 1 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) December 6 - Richard Stone, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) December 10 - Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901) December 15 - Vasily Zaitsev, Russian World War II hero (b. 1915) December 16 - Horatio Luro, Argentine-born racehorse trainer (b. 1901) December 18 - George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913) thx wikipedia.... ANd last but most important my very own birthday!!!!

I dont know, But i do know i was born in the middle of a HORRIBLE STORM i mean it was real trouble

1989 JANUARY January 7 - Showa period ends, due to the death of Emperor Hirohito (aka Emperor Showa) in Japan. Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan, beginning the Heisei period the following day. January 8 - The Kegworth Air Disaster: A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport, leaving 44 dead. January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola. January 12 - George Bush names William Bennett to be his Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and James Watkins as Secretary of Energy. January 16-January 18 - Race riots occur in Overtown, Miami. January 17 - The Stockton massacre: Patrick Edward Purdy kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California. January 18 - The Communist Party of Poland votes to legalize Solidarity. January 20 - George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America. January 20 - The Soviets begin to airlift supplies to Afghanistan as they pull out. January 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair. January 30 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident. FEBRUARY February 1 - Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC (Victorian Economic Development Co-operation) Crisis. February 2 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation. February 2 - Satellite television service Sky Television plc is launched in Europe. February 3 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. February 3 - After a stroke, Pieter Willem Botha resigns his party's leadership and the presidency of South Africa. February 7 - The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons. February 10 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party. February 11 - Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. February 14 - Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster. February 14 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. February 14 - The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit. February 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan. February 16 - Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player. February 23 - After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11-9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense. February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. February 24 - United Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747 bound to New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers and crew out of the first class section. February 27 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo. MARCH March 1 - The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States. March 1 - A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority. March 1 -Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce. March 1 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy. March 1 - The Politieke Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij, Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelische Volks Partij amalgamate to form Netherlands political party the GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft). March 2 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century. March 3 - Jammu Siltavuori abducts and murders two 8 year old girls in Myllypuro suburb in Helsinki, Finland March 4 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner. March 4 - The Purley Station rail crash in London leaves 5 dead and 94 injured. March 4 - The first ACT (Australian Capital Territory) elections are held. March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. March 9 - A strike forces financially troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy. March 14 - Gun control: U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States. March 14 - Christian General Michel Aoun declares a 'War of Liberation' to rid Lebanon of Syrian forces and their allies. March 18 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Great Pyramid of Giza. March 20 - Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity. March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah. March 23 - A 300 m (1,000 ft) diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 500,000 km (400,000 miles). The Exxon ValdezMarch 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground. March 27 - The first free elections for the Soviet parliament go against the Communist Party. APRIL April 1 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Poll tax, is introduced in Scotland. April 2 - In Wrestlemania V, Hulk Hogan defeats Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth in the neutral corner) to become the WWF Champion. April 4 - Richard M. Daley is elected mayor of Chicago. April 4 - In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary. April 6 - National Safety Council of Australia chief executive John Friedrich is arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235 million. April 7 - The Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 41. April 9 - Georgian demonstrators are massacred by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful rally; 20 citizens are killed (mostly young women), many injured. April 15 - The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool supporters. April 16 - The Dilbert comic strip is syndicated for the first time. April 18 - The Hillsborough disaster claims its 95th victim when 14-year-old Lee Nichol dies in hospital from his injuries. April 19 - Trisha Meili is savagely attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park; as her identity remains secret for years, she becomes known as the "Central Park Jogger." April 19 - Seven crew members die after a gun turret explodes on the U.S. battleship Iowa. April 20 - NATO debates modernising short range missiles; although the U.S. and UK are in favour, West German chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision. April 21 - Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square. April 21 - Nintendo begins selling the Game Boy in Japan. April 25 - The term of Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail as the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends. April 26 - Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. MAY May 1 - Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time. May 2 - Hungary dismantles 150 miles of barbed wire fencing, opening its border to Western Europe. May 9 - Andrew Peacock deposes John Howard as Federal Opposition Leader. May 11 - The ACT (Australian Capital Territory) Legislative Assembly meets for the first time. May 12 - A Southern Pacific Railroad freight train crashes on Duffy Street in San Bernardino, California. May 14 - Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since the 1960s. May 15 - Australia's first private tertiary institution, Bond University, opens on the Gold Coast. May 19 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. May 20 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing. May 25 - The Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup: The Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL) win their first and only Stanley Cup with a 4-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. May 25 - Thirteen days after a Southern Pacific train derails, a Calnev pipeline explodes at the same section of Duffy Street in San Bernardino, California. May 30 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m (33 ft) high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators. JUNE June 1 - The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto. June 3 - The Ayatollah Khomeini dies. June 4 - The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television. June 4 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as 2 trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. June 4 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989 (almost all of them peaceful). June 7 - 176 people are killed in Surinam's worst air disaster. June 8 - Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria. June 13 - The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941, is located 600 miles west of Brest, France. June 14 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer. June 16 - A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister who had been executed in 1958. June 21 - British police arrest 250 citizens for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge. June 22 - Ireland's first universities established since independence in 1922, Dublin City University and the University of Limerick, open. JULY July 2 - Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece resigns. A new government is formed under Tzannis Tzannetakis. July 5 - The television show Seinfeld premieres. July 9-July 12 : U.S. President George H. W. Bush travels to Poland and Hungary, pushing for U.S. economic aid and investment. July 14 - France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. July 14-July 16 - At the annual G-7 Summit, leaders call for restrictions on gas emissions July 19 - United Airlines Flight 232 (Douglas DC-10) crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112; due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and crew, 184 on board survive. July 20 - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest. July 26 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. AUGUST August 7 - U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. August 8 - STS-28: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret 5-day military mission. August 9 The asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged by radar from Arecibo. August 13 - A hot air balloon accident near Alice Springs, Australia kills 13. August 18 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. August 19 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, the first non-communist in power in 42 years. August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's den. August 20 - Fifty-one people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge. August 23 - Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, join hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way. August 23 - Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria. August 23 - All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute. August 24 - Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. August 24 - Indonesia's first privately owned television station, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia, (RCTI) begins broadcasting. Neptune on 1989-08-25August 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton. August 29 - Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans. SEPTEMBER September 5 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park in his first televised speech to the nation. September 6 - The South African general election (the last under apartheid) returns the National Party with a much-reduced majority. September 6 - England holds Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher sustained a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher's white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood. September 10 - The Hungarian government opens the country's western borders to refugees from the German Democratic Republic. September 20 - F. W. de Klerk was sworn in as State President of South Africa. September 21 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing $7 billion in damage. September 22 - Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, United Kingdom, leaving 11 dead and 22 injured OCTOBER October 5 - U.S. televangelist John Nunes is found guilty of embezzling $158 million. October 9 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. October 9 - In Leipzig, East Germany, protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms. October 13 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26 most likely after the junk bond market collapsed. This mini-crash became known as the Friday the 13th mini-crash. October 17 - The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region of Northern California, killing 63. October 18 - The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems. October 19 - The Guildford Four are freed after 14 years. October 23 - The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös (replacing the Hungarian People's Republic). October 30 - The qualification for the 1990 Football World Cup ends. NOVEMBER ("November 1989" – Cold War: East Germany Nov 7, 9; Bulgaria Nov 10; Czechoslovakia Nov 17, 20, 28) November 4 - Typhoon Gay devastates the Thai province of Chumphon. November 7 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. November 7 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City. November 7 - Cold War: The Communist government of East Germany resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains head of state. November 7 - In California, convicted murderer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death. November 9 - Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began tearing the wall down). November 10 - After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party. This is the latest of several events this week which signal the beginning of the end for communism in Eastern Europe. November 10 - Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly non-stop around the world. November 12 - Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960. November 16 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter are shot in San Salvador, El Salvador. November 16 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act. November 16 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference. November 17 - Cold War: The Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29). November 20 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. November 21 - North Carolina celebrates its bicentennial statehood. November 22 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him. November 28 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - With other Communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years). November 30 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a terrorist bomb (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder DECEMBER December 1 - Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist-dominated SED its monopoly on power. Egon Krenz, the Politburo and the Central Committee resign 2 days later. December 3 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end. December 6 - The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal. December 10 - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement, that peacefully changes the second oldest communist country into a democratic society. December 14 - Chile holds its first free election in 16 years. December 15 - Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police. December 17 - In TimiÅŸoara, Romania, an uprising begins against the communist regime, sparking the Romanian Revolution. December 17 - Brazil holds its first free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor de Mello wins the election. December 17 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on the FOX TV Network. December 20 - Operation Just Cause is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. December 22 - After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae CeauÅŸescu's communist dictatorship, who flees his palace in a helicopter to escape inevitable execution. December 22 - Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey, Australia, killing 35. December 25 - Nicolae CeauÅŸescu and his wife Elena are executed after their unsuccessful escape attempt. December 25 - Bank of Japan governors announce a major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of the bubble economy. December 28 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. December 29 - Václav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia. December 29 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees. UNKOWN DATES Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history Homosexual Acts between consenting adults decriminalized in Western Australia Kamchatka opened to Russian civilian visitors Retirement of the Alize propeller-driven anti-submarine planes from carrier service in the French Navy The first national park, in Schiermonnikoog, is established in The Netherlands Soviet submarine K-173, Chelyabinsk, commissioned The wreck of the Lady Elgin discovered off Highland Park, Illinois by Harry Zych Margaret Rey establishes the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai theory, about the collapse of the Industrial Civilization The Museum of Jurassic Technology, is founded in Culver City, California by David and Diana Wilson The unknown Swede Marcus Schenkenberg is discovered by a photographer when rollerskating on Venice Beach, California The last Golden Toad is seen. The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established. Disney's The Little Mermaid is released in theaters. Rogers Centre's construction is completed in Toronto. The millionth Ford Taurus sold. It had just been introduced three years earlier. That's about all of the famous things that happened on the year of my birth.

this is the month i was born in the year i was born [edit] May May 1 - Arturo Frondizi becomes President of Argentina May 12 - A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada May 13 - During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators May 15 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3 May 16 - Short-lived outburst of friendship between Arabs and Europeans in Algiers May 18 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph May 20 - Fulgencio Batista's government launches counteroffensive against Castro's rebels May 21 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area. [1] May 23 - Explorer I ceased transmission May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery

Ford introduces the Taurus. (Biggest hit for Ford EVER), Live Aid happened, First version of Windows 1.0, Route 66 decommisioned, First British cell phone call ever made, and "We Are the World" was recorded. That's I can can remember from my b-day card.

At the end of that year I became one year old.

The planets came into alignment and the heavens roared, and behold I was born unto you... but I was a couple of thousand years too late to get a religion named after me... 7th Day Hamsters has a nice ring to it

woodstock (w/jimi hendrix, janis joplin, the who, joar baez, crosby, stills and nash), buch cassity and the sundance kid came out, world pop was 3.631 billion, wal-mart incorporates, solvet space probe venera lands on venus, first concorde test flight, richard nixon became pres, and last but not least ann jones beat billie jean king.

John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States of America. I think he would be so ashamed of what the Democratic Party has become.

The Episcopal Church began ordaining women!

January Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 January 1 - NAFTA goes into effect. January 1 -The Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins their war in Chiapas, Mexico. January 6 - In Detroit, Michigan, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband. January 8 - Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. January 11 - The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin. January 11 - The Superhighway Summit is held at UCLA's Royce Hall. It was the first conference to discuss the growing information superhighway and was presided over by Vice President Al Gore. January 12 - President Clinton meets the Presidents of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. January 14 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. January 15 - SS American Star breaks tow in the Atlantic Ocean and is beached at Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands a few days later. January 17 - The 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m killing 61 and leaving 26,029 homeless. January 18 - The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute. January 19 - Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, -36°F (-38°C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana. January 20 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel, but soon drops out. January 21 - Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John. January 25 - President Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform. January 26 - A man fires 2 blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia. January 28 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole. January 30 - In Super Bowl XXVIII, the Dallas Cowboys hand the Buffalo Bills their fourth consecutive Super Bowl loss, 30-13. January 31 - German luxury car manufacturer BMW announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace February Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 William PerryFebruary 1 - In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. He accepts a plea bargain, admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding. February 3 - William J. Perry is sworn in as the United States Secretary of Defense. February 4 - The Federal Open Market Committee raises the Fed Funds target rate for the first time since May, 1989. The rate is raised by 25 basis points to 3¼ percent [1]. February 5 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. February 6 - Markale massacres:A Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. February 9 - The Vance-Owen Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced. February 12 - Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream," is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on May 7). February 22 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice. Ames will later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and his wife will receive 5 years in prison. February 24 - In Gloucester, local police begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street,the home of Fred West, suspected of multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested. February 25 - Israeli terrorist and Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank. He kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death. February 26 - Comedian, Bill Hicks, dies from pancreatic cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas. February 27 - Australian Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a pork barreling fashion. February 28 - United States F-16 pilots shoot down 4 Serbian fighter aircraft over Bosnia-Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone. March Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Mary WithrowMarch 1 - A lone terrorist kills Ari Halberstam during an attack on 14 Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. [2] March 1 - South Africa cedes Walvis Bay to Namibia. March 1 - Mary Ellen Withrow begins her term of office as Treasurer of the United States, serving under President Bill Clinton. March 1 - The grunge band Nirvana plays its final show in Munich. March 4 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing, which killed 6 and injured more than 1,000. March 6 - A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania. March 7 - Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. March 7 - A gunman takes 8 people hostage in the Salt Lake City Public Library Hostage Incident. March 12 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax. March 12 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests. March 15 - U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia. March 16 - In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport. March 21 - Film director Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List wins 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 66th Academy Awards. March 23 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez is arrested for the crime and confesses on the same day. March 27 - The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States. One tornado hits a United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, killing 22. March 28 - Shell House Massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters battle in central Johannesburg South Africa. March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution). April Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 April 6 - Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan Genocide. April 7 - The Rwandan Genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda. I was born. April 8 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. He was last seen alive 3 days ago, and his death is believed to have been suicide. April 16 - Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum. April 20 - Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he served in the Vichy France Milice. April 21 - The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda. April 22 - Former United States President Richard Nixon dies in New York City. April 25 - End of term for Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu as 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. April 25 - The largest high school arson ever in the United States is started at Burnsville High School, in Burnsville, Minnesota, resulting in over 15 million dollars in damages. The same arsonist also goes on to set arsons at: Edina High School and Minnetonka High School. [3] April 26 - Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. April 27 - South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections. April 29 - Commodore International declares bankruptcy. April 30 - Austrian Formula One pilot Roland Ratzenberger is killed in an accident for the free practice of 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. May Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May 1 - The famous Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna dies in accident during San Marino Grand Prix May 6 - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens between England and France. Passengers can now travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes. May 9 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first Black president. May 10 - Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy by lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys. May 10 - An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America. May 12 - Ice hockey becomes Canada's official winter sport. May 12 - Labour leader John Smith, 55, dies of a heart attack. Deputy leader Margaret Beckett stands in until an election can be held. Smith is succeeded by Tony Blair, the 41-year-old Scottish-born Member of Parliament for Sedgefield in County Durham. May 17 - Malawi holds its first multiparty elections. June Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 June - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through Israeli intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son, is the key player in efforts by the Iraqi government to hide the country's alleged illegal weapons. June 6-June 8 - Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a 1-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days). June 12 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit. June 14 - Hacker Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to 7 counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. June 14 - The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks at Madison Square Garden in New York in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals to win their first Stanley Cup Championship in 54 years and ending the Curse of 1940. June 15 - Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. June 17 - NFL star O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which unfolds live on television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, where he then surrenders to police. June 17 - The 1994 FIFA World Cup begins in the United States. June 23 - The International Olympic Committee celebrates their first centennial. June 24 - The third-highest-grossing animated film of all time (as of 2004), The Lion King, opens in theatres nationwide. July Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Brown spots mark impact sites of the Shoemaker-Levy Comet on Jupiter's southern hemisphere.July 2 - Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Bogotá. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the 1994 FIFA World Cup against the United States. July 6 - Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado. The event inspires the 1999 book Fire on the Mountain. July 7 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen. July 15 - July 21 - The planet Jupiter is hit by 21 large fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of 6 days. July 17 - Brazil defeat Italy 3-2 on penalties to win the 1994 FIFA World Cup, after the game ended 0-0 after extra time. July 18 - In Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more (see AMIA Bombing). July 25 - Israel and Jordan sign the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948. August Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August - Wollemia nobilis, a "fossil tree" is discovered by bushwalker David Noble only 150 km from the largest city in Australia. August 1 - Fire destroys Norwich Central Library in the United Kingdom, including most of its historical records. August 1 - The University of London founds the School of Advanced Study, a group of postgraduate research institutes. August 5 - Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first massive strike against Fidel Castro's dictatorship since 1959. August 12 - Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25 year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969. August 12 - Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually causing the cancellation of the World Series. August 20 - In Honolulu, Hawaii, during a circus international performance, a female elephant named Tyke goes mad and crushes her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators, at the Neal Blaisdell Arena. August 31 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations." September Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 September 3 - Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. September 4 - Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai. September 5 - New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman is shot outside his home in Australia's first political assassination since 1977. September 8 - USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport; there are no survivors. September 13 - President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new weapons with certain features for a period of 10 years. September 19 - American troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti in order to restore the legitimate elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power. September 22 - The long-running American sitcom Friends premieres on NBC, eventually becoming part of NBC's Must See TV comedy blocks on Thursdays. September 28 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852. September 28 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on the orders of the president's brother. September-October - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait. October Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 October 5 - In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin Heights, Quebec. October 5 - UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers’ Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on October 5, 1966. October 8 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the UN Security Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors. October 12 - NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14). October 15 - After 3 years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Aristide returns to his country. October 15 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait. October 29 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over 2 dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill President Bill Clinton. October 31 - An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers. October 31 - The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in Israel, where his late mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazis in Athens, during World War II. November Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas, November 8November 4 - San Francisco: The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens. Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media. November 4 - Sydney's third runway opens, ensuring protests about noise levels. November 5 - A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's disease. November 5 - George Foreman regains the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship by KO'ing Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their bout. Foreman becomes the oldest heavyweight champion in history 20 years after first losing the title to Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle. November 5 - Johan Heyns, influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of Apartheid is assassinated. November 8 - Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas. November 13 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum. November 13 - The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel. November 16 - A Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to illegal aliens. November 20 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol. December Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Netscape NavigatorDecember 2 - The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s. December 11 - Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya. December 11 - A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. The bombing was a field test done by Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka. December 13 - Fred West, 53, a builder living in Gloucester, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies were mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rose West, 41, is charged with 10 murders. Police believe that the murders took place between 1967 and 1987, and suspect that they may have killed up to 30 people. December 14 - A Learjet piloted by Richard Anderson and Brad Sexton misses an elementary school and crashes into an apartment complex in Fresno, California, killing both pilots and injuring several apartment residents. December 14 - British Home Secretary Michael Howard announces that Myra Hindley is to serve a whole life tariff for the Moors Murders of the 1960s. The decision was made in private by Mr Howard's predecessor David Waddington in 1990, but Hindley is only informed of the decision today after the House of Lords ruled that the Home Secretary must inform all life sentence prisoners of the minimum term that they should serve before parole can be considered. Hindley, 52, can appeal against the decision but now knows that she may well spend the rest of her life in prison. December 15 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released. December 19 - A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US Dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This will prompt a US$ 50 billion 'bailout' by the Clinton administration. December 19 - The Whitewater scandal investigation begins in Washington, DC. December 19 - Civil unions between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden. December 26 - French anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked jet at Marseille and kill 4 Islamist terrorists. December 29 - Robert Schumann, aged 10, becomes the youngest person to visit the South Pole. December 31 was skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC-11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC-10 to UTC+14. The latter became the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii. i just took the EVENTS section, here'S the link for births... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994

I won't get as involved as Castrate, but in 1956 Soviet troops marched into Hungary Tunisia and Morocco became independant Elvis became 'BIG' with 'Heartbreak Hotel' and 'Love Me Tender' Best Picture was 'Around the World in 80 Days' Other big movies were: Guys and Dolls The King & I High Society Picnic

The nuclear plant Cernobyl in Ukraine exploded, I was 3 months old, and living in Slovakia, neighboring country to Ukraine

The Y2k bug came and went out with a whimper. Millions of people returned their survival gear after camping out in underground shelters that night. The most unreliable operating system ever, Windows ME, was released that September. Lol, I'm kidding!! I wish I was born that late though. Then again, when a millennium baby is old enough, he'll wish he was born in a later year, and the boy born in that later year will wish he was born later, and so on, and so on. I don't know when I'll be ready to reveal when I was born...

Apollo 13

The Challenger blew up, and my parents were actually there and saw it happen.

January Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * January 1 - The Colorado Buffaloes claim college football's national championship with a 10-9 win over Notre Dame in the 1991 Orange Bowl. Controversy reigns as Colorado wins the AP poll, but Georgia Tech - the nation's only unbeaten team (with one tie) - edges Colorado to win the UPI national championship by one point. * January 4 - The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. * January 6 - Former baseball player Alan Wiggins becomes the first former major leaguer to die of AIDS. * January 9 - A major collapse of ground traps 26 miners 65m below the surface at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland. The 26 men have access to a safe refuge chamber, and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted. * January 10 - The SA State Government is forced to bail out the State Bank. * January 11 - Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence. * January 12 - Gulf War: The Congress of the United States passes a resolution authorizing the use of military force to liberate Kuwait. * January 13 o Soviet troops assault the Vilnius TV tower in Lithuania and kill 14 unarmed civilians; many more are injured. o A fight and stampede at a pre-season exhibition match between South African football teams Chiefs and Pirates in the town of Orkney near Johannesburg, South Africa leaves 42 dead. * January 14 - Three PLO guerilla chiefs are assassinated in Tunis. * January 15 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. * January 16 o U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men. o Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with air strikes against Iraq. * January 17 o Gulf War: Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel. o Harald V of Norway becomes King on the death of his father, Olav V. * January 18 - Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years, citing financial problems. * January 19 - The Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in Luanda, Angola. * January 20 - The dynasty of the San Francisco 49ers comes to an end as the New York Giants defeat the 49ers, 15-13, in San Francisco. The Giants win despite not scoring a touchdown, prevailing on five field goals by Matt Bahr. * January 26 - Somalia President Siad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu. * January 27 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19, in Super Bowl XXV. * January 29 - Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia. [edit] February February Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 The Highway of Death, U.S. military decimates the Iraqi Army as it retreats from Kuwait. The Highway of Death, U.S. military decimates the Iraqi Army as it retreats from Kuwait. * February 1 - A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a Skywest Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport killing 34. * February 5 - A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides. * February 7 o Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in. o The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting. * February 9 - Voters in Lithuania support independence. * February 11 - UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization, forms in the Hague, Netherlands. * February 13 - Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy an underground bunker in Baghdad, killing hundreds of Iraqis. Iraqi officials claim that the bunker was a bomb shelter, but United States military intelligence identified it as a military facility. * February 15 - The Visegrad Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. * February 16 - Gulf War: American and British war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing 3 others. * February 18 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London. * February 22 - Gulf War: Iraq accepts a Russian-proposed cease fire agreement. The U.S. rejects the agreement, but said that retreating Iraqi forces would not be attacked if they left Kuwait within 24 hours. * February 23 o The One Meridian Plaza fire kills three firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building. o Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war. * February 23 - In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong deposes Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan in a bloodless coup d'état. * February 25 - Gulf War: Part of an Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 29 and injuring 99 U.S. soldiers. It is the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war. * February 26 - Gulf War: On Baghdad radio, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat. * February 27 - Tawheed masjid loses war again Islamic center [edit] March March Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * March-April - Iraqi forces suppress rebellions in the southern and northern parts of the country, creating a humanitarian disaster on the borders of Turkey and Iran. * March 1 o The ballistic missile submarine USS-ex-Sam Houston SSBN-609 is deactivated. o Clayton Keith Yeutter finishes as the United States Secretary of Agriculture. * March 3 o An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers. o Latvia and Estonia vote for independence from the Soviet Union. * March 4 REVA The first lady of tyler barnetts presidency * March 9 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade; 2 people are killed and tanks are in the streets. * March 10 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf. * March 11 - A curfew is imposed on black townships in South Africa after fighting between rival political gangs kills 49. * March 13 - The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. * March 14 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence. * March 15 o Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest. o Germany formally regains complete independence after the 4 post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights. * March 31 - Albania has the first multi-party elections. [edit] April April Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * April 3 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes the Cease Fire Agreement, Resolution 687. The resolution calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents and components, and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities for ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150km and production facilities; and for an end to its support for international terrorism. Iraq accepts the terms of the resolution on April 6. * April 4 o Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania. o William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault. * April 5 - Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States. * April 9 - The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia declares independence. * April 10 o A South Atlantic tropical cyclone develops in the Southern Hemisphere off the coast of Angola (the first of its kind to be documented by weather satellites). o Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140. * April 14 - In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum. * April 17 - After approaching 3,000 in July 1990, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever, closing at 3,004.46. * April 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq declares some of its chemical weapons and materials to the UN, as required by Resolution 687, and claims that it does not have a biological weapons program. * April 26 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17. The most notable tornado of the day strikes Andover, Kansas. (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak) * April 29 - A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people. [edit] May May Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * May 15 - Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier. * May 16 o Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom gives a speech to the U.S. Congress. o "Muppet Vision 3-D" opens at Disney-MGM Studios. * May 21 - In Madras, India, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated. * May 24 - Authorised by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Operation Solomon commences. * May 26 - In Thailand, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashes near Bangkok, killing all 223 people on-board. * May 28 - The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Minnesota North Stars 8-0 in Game 7 to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. * May 29 - In Bari, Crvena Zvezda, Beograd won Champions Cup in Football. [edit] June June Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * June 3 - Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow (the victims are all either volcanologists or journalists). * June 5 - Phil Zimmermann releases PGP v1.0, the first freely available strong cryptography. * June 9 - A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit was first alerted. * June 12 - Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the fifteen Soviet republics. Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin * June 13 - A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open. * June 15 - Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines. * June 17 o Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. o U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found. * June 23 - Sonic the Hedgehog, a video game made by Sonic Team was released to America. This started a 16-year run that is going on in the technological and entertainment world today. * June 23-June 28 - Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles. * June 25 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia. [edit] July July Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * July 1 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. * July 7 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day war in Slovenia. * July 10 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia. * July 11 - A total Solar Eclipse is seen in Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Brazil. * July 22 o Mike Tyson is arrested and charged with raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, 3 days earlier, in Indianapolis, Indiana. o Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment. They soon found out that he is involved in 6 more murders. * July 24 - The government of India announces its New Industrial Policy, marking the start of India's economic reforms. * July 26 - Paul Reubens (aka Peewee Herman) is arrested in a Sarasota, Florida theater for fondling himself. [edit] August August Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web." * August 7 - Shapour Bakhtiar, former prime minister of Iran, is assassinated. * August 8 - The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built, collapses. * August 11 - The first Nicktoon is aired at 10:00 am, Doug. * August 13 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the United States. * August 17 - Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself. * August 19 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours. * August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev. * August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. * August 24 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union. * August 25 o Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to a Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing. o Michael Schumacher makes his Formula 1 debut in the Belgian Grand Prix. * August 27 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union. * August 29 - Maronite general Michel Aoun leaves Lebanon via a French ship into exile. * August 31 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union. [edit] September September Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * September 2 - The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. * September 3 - In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people. * September 5-September 7 - At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and 7 men are assaulted. * September 6 o The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic States. o The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924. * September 8 - The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. * September 21 - Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union. * September 21-September 30 - Iraq disarmament crisis: IAEA inspectors discover files on Iraq's hidden nuclear weapons program. Iraqi officials confiscate documents from UN weapons inspectors, refusing to allow them to leave the site without turning over other documents. A 4-day standoff ensues. Iraq permits the team to leave with the documents after the UN Security Council threatens enforcement actions. * September 22 - The Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time. * September 30 - Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed from power. [edit] October October Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * October 2 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. * October 8 - The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia. * October 11 o In Russia, the KGB is replaced by the SVR. o Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.N. Security Council passes Resolution 715, which demands that Iraq "accept unconditionally the inspectors and all other personnel designated by the Special Commission". Iraq rejects the resolution, calling it "unlawful". * October 11-October 13 - The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee interviews both Supreme Court candidate Clarence Thomas and former aide Anita Hill, who alleges that Thomas sexually harassed her while she worked for him. * October 12 - Askar Akayev, previously chosen President of Kyrgyzstan by its Supreme Soviet, is confirmed president in an uncontested poll. * October 14 - Bulgarians celebrate the end of the rule of the Communist Party. * October 15 - After a bitter confirmation hearing, including sexual misconduct allegations by former aide Anita Hill, the United States Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States. * October 16 - George Hennard guns down 24 people in Killeen, Texas before killing himself. * October 19 - A 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake hits Northern Italy; 2,000 dead. * October 20 - The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments. * October 22 - Leonora Knatchbull, youngest of Lord Romsey's three children, dies of a kidney tumour at the age of five. * October 27 o The first free parliamentary elections are held in Poland. o Turkmenistan declares its independence from the USSR. o The Minnesota Twins win the World Series. * October 29 - The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. [edit] November November Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 * November 2 - Australia beats England 12-6 at Twickenham Stadium to lift the Rugby World Cup. * November 4 - Ronald Reagan's presidential library opens in Simi Valley. * November 5 o The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean (he had fallen off his yacht near the Canary Islands). o David Duke, a white supremacist running as a Republican, loses the Louisiana Governor's race to Democratic candidate Edwin Edwards, by an overwhelming margin. * November 6 - The KGB officially stops operations. * November 7 o Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his career in the NBA. o The last oil well fire is put out in Kuwait. o The first report on Carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal Nature. * November 9 - JET fusion reactor generated 1.5 MW output power. * November 14 o American and British authorities announce indictments against 2 Libyan intelligence officials, in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. o Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after 13 years of exile. * November 18 o Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon set Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland free. o Serbian troops take Vukovar after a siege of 87 days. * November 24 - Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, dies one day after issuing a public statement confirming he had AIDS. Eric Carr, longtime KISS drummer, dies of cancer in New York. * November 27 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution opening the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia. * November 29 - The Federal Yugoslavian Army begins to withdraw from Zagreb. [edit] December December Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 * December 1 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukrainians vote overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union in a referendum. * December 4 o Journalist Terry Anderson is released after 7 years' captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon). o Pan American World Airways ends operations. * December 8 o Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve in Belarus. o A referendum on the constitution of Romania is accepted as valid. * December 12 - The Russian SFSR ceases to be a part of the Soviet Union. * December 15 - The Egyptian ferry Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, killing more than 450. * December 19 - Paul Keating replaces Bob Hawke as the new prime minister of Australia. * December 22 - One month after Freddie Mercury's death, Queen's re-release of Bohemian Rhapsody returns to the top of the British singles charts, 16 years after the original version. * December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already disbanded; the 73-year-old state is now expected to dissolve completely. * December 26 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. * December 31 - The Soviet Union officially ceases to exist. 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Man landed on the moon.

the great FIREHOUSE subs was founded bi 2 fireman! lol in jacksonville,florida! ( i learned this on the back of my cup today at lunch! lol )

Korean war was just winding down and Dr Jonas Salk announced the vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]!

AFI formed! best year eva! Go 1991!!1

Congress creates PBS. Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines. Movies The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke Music The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Science Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel (UK) discover pulsars. Background: Astronomy Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks. The MIRV (Multiple Indepenently Targetable Reetry Vehicle), which allows one missile to carry several nuclear warheads, is developed. Background: nuclear weapons Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later. Deaths Ernesto "Che" Guevara Spencer Tracy Woody Guthrie Langston Hughes John Coltrane Politics The Six Day War China explodes its first hydrogen bomb Astronauts killed in a fire during launch Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice Race Riots And my personal favorite The New Orleans Saints were born.

Young and the Restless first season.

Notre Dame defeated UCLA ending it's 88 game winning streak on Jan.19. February 4 Patty Hearst is kidnapped. February 8 the crew of skylab4 returned to earth. February 8 KISS released it's self titled album. February 23 kidnappers asked for million for Patty Hearst. April 3 The super outbreak of tornadoes hits 13 states in the U.S. April 8 Hank Aron beats Babe Ruth's home run record with his 715th home record. April 24 Stephan King released his first book under his own name Carrie. May 9 Richard Nixon is ordered to stand trail for impeachment. June 26 firs upc code is scanned. August 9 Richard Nixon resigns. September 8 twa flight 841 crashes into the sea. October 30 Ali vrs Forman November Ronald DeFao jr murders his family giving way to the amityville Horrors. November 20 government breaks up the monopoly between att and bell. Dungeons and Dragons was first published and released.

In 1984 Ronald Reagan is president of the US On a Challenger mission, two astronauts become the first humans to fly free of a spacecraft An Union Carbide insecticide plant in Bhopal, India seeps toxic gas killing over 2,000 Penthouse magazine publishes nude photographs of Miss America Vanessa Williams The Soviet Union boycotts the Los Angeles Summer Olympics Richard Stallman starts developing GNU "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's airs for the first time The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple Ethiopian famine begins Mandy Moore and Avril Lavigne are born Detroit Tigers win the World Series Los Angeles Raiders win Superbowl XVIII Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup Ghost Busters, Beverly Hills Cop, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, and The Karate Kid are top grossing films "When Doves Cry" by Prince and the Revolution spends the most time at the top of US charts Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial The Cosby Show, Punky Brewster, and Who's the Boss? premiere and more importantly...i was born!!! (I kinda think thats a BIG deal!!)

January 1974 Wednesday 02: Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. Saturday 05: An earthquake in Lima, Peru kills six, and damages 100s of houses. Friday 11: The world's first surviving set of sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in Cape Town, South Africa. Thursday 17: Joni Mitchell releases Court and Spark, arguably her most mainstream album. Saturday 19: The UCLA men's basketball team sees its 88-game winning streak end at the hands of Notre Dame. January 1974 February 1974 Monday 18: KISS releases their self-titled debut album. Wednesday 20: Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick claims he began experiencing intense gnostic visions on this date. Thursday 21: The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal in carrying out a truce with Egypt. Wednesday 27: People magazine is published for the first time. Thursday 28: After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations. February 1974 March 1974 Tuesday 05: Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdrew from the west bank of the Suez Canal. Friday 08: Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. Monday 18: Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. Wednesday 20: 1974 – A failed kidnap attempt is made on Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. Friday 29: NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973. March 1974 April 1974 Monday 01: In the United Kingdom, new administrative counties come into being. Saturday 06: In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo". Monday 08: At the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron breaks baseball great's Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run. Thursday 18: Italian prosecutor Mario Sossi is kidnapped by the Red Brigades. Monday 29: Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings related to the scandal. April 1974 May 1974 Saturday 18: Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It later collapses on August 8, 1991. Friday 24: After a nine-year run, the Dean Martin Show airs for the last time. Monday 27: Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister of France. Tuesday 28: Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists. Friday 31: Syria and Israel sign a disengagement agreement to resolve the Yom Kippur War May 1974 June 1974 Saturday 01: Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK, kills 28 people. Tuesday 04: Baseball: The Cleveland Indians host "Ten Cent Beer Night", but have to forfeit the game to the Texas Rangers due to drunken and unruly fans. Saturday 08: An F4 tornado strikes the U.S. city of Emporia, Kansas, killing six. Wednesday 26: The first retail product (a pack of chewing gum) was sold using a barcode reader. Thursday 27: U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R. June 1974 July 1974 Saturday 06: The radio program A Prairie Home Companion makes its first live broadcast. Monday 15: In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. Saturday 20: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after Greek Cypriots' attempt at enosis. NATO's Council praises the United States and the United Kingdom for attempts to settle the dispute. Syria and Egypt put their militaries on alert. Wednesday 24: Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. Tuesday 30: Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the United States Supreme Court. July 1974 August 1974 Monday 05: Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam. Thursday 08: Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective the next day, August 9). Friday 09: Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action reportedly taken to prevent time from being wasted in impeachment proceedings in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th president. Thursday 15: Yook Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea is killed amid an apparent assassination attempt upon President of the South Korea, Park Chung-hee, during the anniversarial ceremony of the Liberation day. Friday 16: The Ramones play their first ever show at the CBGB's. August 1974 September 1974 Sunday 08: Evel Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his "sky cycle." Tuesday 10: Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal. Wednesday 11: The Stranglers are a British rock music group, was formed in Guildford. Thursday 12: Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. Sunday 15: Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board. September 1974 October 1974 Tuesday 01: The Watergate trial begins Saturday 05: I Honestly Love You first reaches #1 on the Billboard charts, giving Olivia Newton-John her first top-selling single in the United States. Friday 18: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters. Wednesday 30: "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship. October 1974 November 1974 Saturday 02: 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after club official barred the doors after the fire started. Wednesday 13: PLO leader Yasser Arafat gives a landmark address to the United Nations General Assembly. Wednesday 20: The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System. Thursday 21: 1974 - George W. Bush is discharged from the US Air Force Reserve. Saturday 30: The skeleton of "Lucy", a 3.18 million years old female hominid, of the genus Australopithecus, was discovered in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. November 1974 December 1974 Thursday 05: The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC. Sunday 22: Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration. Tuesday 24: Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia. Wednesday 25: Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia Saturday 28: Senegalese marxist group Reenu-Rew founds the political movement And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.

In 1988, the City of LA was pleagued with gang violence (though it was been going on before that).

Two months and 1 day after I was born JFK was assasinated.

Jan 1986 Halley's Comet

I was born!

Much about everything.

Nixon resigned to beat Impeachment Jaws was released.

In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in what is apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.

Kennedy was elected president, They stopped making Desoto cars and the US sent the first troops to Vietnam.

the Berlin Wall was torn down.

May 1947 Cold War: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece.

January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance. January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake. Castro's troops approach Havana. January 3 Island of Addu in the Maldives declares independence. Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. January 4 In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. In Léopoldville 42 people are killed during food fights between the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako party. January 6 - Fidel Castro arrives in Havana. January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. January 8 - Charles De Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic. January 12 - The Caves of Nerja were discovered in Spain. Jan.3 AlaskaJanuary 13 - Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista. January 22 - Knox Mine Disaster - water breaches River Slope mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania - 12 miners dead. January 24 - The formation of the Nu Tetarton chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa at Rutgers University. January 25 - Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome. February 1 - A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage. February 3 - The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died" popularized in Don McLean's song "American Pie". February 6 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished. February 13 - *TAT-2 cable goes into operation. February 16 Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba. A blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland. February 17 - USA launches the Vanguard II weather satellite. February 18 Jesus Sosa Blanco, murderer of 108 people, executed in Cuba. Women in Nepal vote for the first time. February 19 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence. February 20 - The Canadian Government cancels the CF-105 Arrow project. February 22 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. February 26 - Author Walter Mene throws acid on a Rubens painting in Munich. March 1 USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile. March 8 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery. March 9 - The Barbie doll debuts. March 10 - Tibetan uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands are massacred by the occupying Chinese army. March 11 Een beetje by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, text by Willy van Hemert) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1959 for Netherlands. "Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway in New York. March 12 - Production of the first solid gold "Glaussen Pennies". March 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India. March 18 - American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood. March 19 - Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadive Republic (abolished September 1963), in the Maldives Islands. March 31 Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida is dedicated and opens its gates. Dalai Lama leaves Tibet. April 9 - NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts (see Mercury Seven). April 10 - Japanese prince Akihito married Shōda Michiko. April 25 - The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping. May - First Ten Tors event held in Dartmoor. late May / early June - import tariffs lifted in the United Kingdom. May 24 - British Empire Day is renamed Commonwealth Day. June 3 - Singapore becomes a self governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister. June 5 - A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former Ministers were re-elected to the Legislative Assembly. June 8 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. June 9 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. June 14 - A three-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro whose purpose was to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Within a few days all but four are captured and executed. Trujillo is killed less than two years later by men partly inspired by the deaths of the 1959 revolutionaries. June 18 - The film The Nun's Story, based on the best-selling novel, is released. Audrey Hepburn stars as the title character; she will later say that this is her favorite film role. The film is a box-office hit, and is nominated for several Oscars. June 23 Sean Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland. Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career). June 26 Queen Elizabeth II and US President Dwight Eisenhower open the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Darby O'Gill and the Little People, a film based on H.T. Kavanagh's short stories, is released in the U.S. by Walt Disney, after world premiering in Ireland. July - The medical research group studying Minamata disease comes to the conclusion that mercury is the cause. July 1 - The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway by Canada and the United States, officiated by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II July 2 - Royal wedding in Belgium: Prince Albert marries the Italian princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria. July 4 - With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 7 - 14:28 UT Venus occulted the star Regulus. The rare event which will next occur on October 1, 2044 was used for determining the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere. July 8 - Charles Ovnand and Dale R. Buis become the first Americans killed in action in Vietnam. July 15 - Steel industry strike in USA. July 17 - The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. July 24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US Vice President Richard Nixon and USSR Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate." August 4 - Martial law declared in Laos. August 7 - Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. August 7 - United States The Roseburg Oregon Blast kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of damage. August 8 - Flood in Taiwan leaves 2,000 dead. August 14 - Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from space. August 15 - Cyprus gains independence. August 17 -United States Hebgen Lake Earthquake, Southwest Montana, Kills 28 August 21 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state. August 24 - Cyprus joins United Nations. September 13 - Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object on the moon. September 23 - The M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia’s first passenger RO/RO diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait. September 25 - Ceylon's prime minister SWRD Bandaranaike assassinated. September 26 - Superpower Typhoon Vera hit central HonshÅ«. Japanese authority estimate killing at least 5,098, injuring another 38,921, 1,533,000 are homeless. Most of victim and damage at Nagoya erea, where occurred with storm surge. October 2 - Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. October 7 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 sends back first ever photos of the far side of the Moon. October 12 At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals is expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde. Large scale diamond robbery in London. October 13 - USA launches Explorer 7. October 21 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. October 31 Riots in the Belgian Congo. Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow that he will never return to the United States. November 2 - The first section of the M1 motorway was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18. November 8 - Leeds City Tramways closes down. November 12 - The Warner Bros. epic The Miracle, very loosely based on the 1911 stage pantomime produced by Max Reinhardt, is released. It is a critical and financial bomb. November 15 - The Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas is brutally murdered. November 18 - MGM's widescreen, multimillion dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time. It is critically acclaimed and eventually wins 11 Academy Awards - a record held until 1998, when 1997's Titanic becomes the first film to equal the record. December 1 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed - 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (this was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War). December 2 - Malpasset dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus: 412 dead. December 13 - Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition. December 14 - Makarios selected first president of Cyprus.

George H.W. Bush becomes president of the US The largest oil spill in US history occurs after the Exxon Valdez strikes Blight Reef in Alaska's Prince William sound In Liverpool, England a soccer stadium barrier collapses killing 94 people Hurricane Hugo causes 71 deaths and $4.2 billion in damage A massave earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay area minutes before the World Series between the Giants and A's The Berlin Wall comes down, symbolically ending the Cold War Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair Nintendo released its popular handheld video game player, Game Boy Oakland Athletics win the World Series San Francisco 49ers win Superbowl XXIII Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup Batman is the top grossing film Oh and The mall of America opened :)

Awesome stuff happened.

What happened on 27th November 1958

All hell broke loose!!!! lol

A huge star appeared in the sky and people came by camelback to see me. Oh, you mean this time? Not too much.

http://www.hisdates.com/years/1938.html 1938: In my birth month only; ** Special Note items. **Oct 1st - Cubs clinch NL pennant - WOW!! Oct 1st - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) Oct 2nd - Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) Oct 6th - Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss Oct 7th - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J Oct 8th - G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid," premieres in NYC Oct 9th - A Copland & E Lorings ballet "Billy the Kid," premieres in Chicago Oct 9th - Cleveland Browns & Chicago Bears play a penalty free NFL game **Oct 9th - NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 35th World Series, 3rd straight WS win Oct 10th - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland Oct 10th - Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st String Quartet **Oct 14th - Nazis plan Jewish ghettos for all major cities Oct 15th - Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC Oct 21st - Japanese troops occupies Canton **Oct 22nd - Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine **Oct 24th - US forbids child labor in factories Oct 25th - Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan Oct 25th - The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell". **Oct 26th - Du Pont named its new synthetic fiber "nylon" Oct 27th - DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon" Oct 28th - Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona) **Oct 30th - Orson Welles panics a nation with broadcast of "War of the Worlds" **Oct 31st - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public. HEY OBAMA- LOOK AT THIS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993 see for yourself. :p

A military jet crashed with 35 people and a Secretary of Commerce died on the exact day i was born

In October of 1957, twenty days before I was born, the Russians launched the Sputnik Satellite....and that was the "dawn of the Space Age": http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/

According to http://www.blogthings.com/whathappenedtheyearyouwerebornquiz/ : Harry Truman is president of the US The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opens During a speech in Missouri, Churchill declares an "iron curtain" has descended across Europe The bikini two-piece bathing suit is introduced, named after the "ultimate impact" of the atomic testing in Bikini Atoll A strike by 400,000 mine workers and other industries begins Congress passes the Atomic Energy Act *Cher, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg, and Bill Clinton are born* St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series Chicago Bears win the NFL championship Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup B.B. King's musical career begins *Also: Sally Field, Candice Bergen, and Susan Sarandon.

Major Events of 1993 Waco seige in Texas. First World Trade Center bombing. Terrorists detonate bomb in underground car park. Peace treaty signed between Israel and PLO. Eritrea independent from Ethiopia. Mosaic, web browser software, introduced. Intel introduces the Pentium microprocessor. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opens. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

The day I was born is known as Dr. Robert H. Goddard Day (proclaimed by President Ronald Regan) Dr. Goddard's birthday is exactly 100 years before mine. He is known as the Father of the Space Age. :D

vents of 1965 1965 (04 jan) LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address 1965 (09 jan) "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks 1965 (12 jan) "Hullabaloo" premiers on NBC-TV 1965 (15 jan) Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" 1965 (20 jan) The Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV) 1965 (20 jan) The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" 1965 (23 jan) "The King Family Show" (musical variety) premiers on ABC TV 1965 (07 feb) US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam 1965 (08 feb) Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" 1965 (11 feb) Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox 1965 (15 feb) Canada replaces the Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf 1965 (07 mar) Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma 1965 (08 mar) 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam 1965 (13 mar) Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 1965 (13 mar) Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds 1965 (03 apr) 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched 1965 (06 apr) Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous comm satellite 1965 (09 apr) Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK 1965 (11 apr) 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000 1965 (13 apr) Beatles record "Help" 1965 (21 apr) New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season 1965 (27 apr) RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper 1965 (28 apr) Barbra Striesand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS 1965 (28 apr) US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 1965 (29 apr) Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die 1965 (05 may) 1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam 1965 (08 may) 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7") 1965 (13 may) Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction" 1965 (22 may) Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1 1965 (03 jun) Gemini 4 launched; 2nd US 2-man flight (McDivitt & White) 1965 (04 jun) Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" 1965 (07 jun) Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits 1965 (08 jun) US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam 1965 (09 jun) Michel Fazy runs the mile in 3 minute 53.6 seconds 1965 (17 jun) 28.14 cm (11.08") of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record) 1965 (17 jun) Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour 1965 (06 jul) Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms 1965 (07 jul) Otis Redding records "Respect" 1965 (10 jul) Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks 1965 (10 jul) Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1965 (14 jul) US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) 1965 (24 jul) Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" 1965 (29 jul) Beatles movie "Help" premiers, Queen Elizabeth attends 1965 (30 jul) LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year 1965 (11 aug) Watts riots begin in LA, lasts 6 days 1965 (12 aug) Race riot in West Side of Chicago 1965 (14 aug) Beatles tape an appearance for the Ed Sullivan Show 1965 (13 sep) Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast 1965 (14 sep) "F-Troop" premiers 1965 (15 sep) "Lost in Space" premiers 1965 (18 sep) "Get Smart" premiers 1965 (25 sep) Beatle cartoon show begins in the US 1965 (06 oct) Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony" 1965 (07 oct) 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 1965 (07 oct) Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups 1965 (09 oct) Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks 1965 (28 oct) Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri 1965 (08 nov) "Days of Our Lives" premiers on TV 1965 (11 nov) Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith 1965 (16 nov) 1st public announcement about Walt Disney World 1965 (04 dec) Gemini 7 launched with 2 astronauts 1965 (15 dec) Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) 1965 (17 dec) Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages 1965 (26 dec) "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand closes on Broadway 1965 (29 dec) Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"

I was born. :)

Hitler invaded Poland as I recall the day after I was born. England had been at war with Germany for several years.

Kent State shooting Black September Monday Night Football begins WTC is completed Lithium approved by FDA Beatles release Let it Be Charles Manson convicted Marshall University plain crash... And a well endowed baby boy Fontana was born unto us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992 This will tell you of many major events that happened in the year I was born.