What happened in the year you were born?

[Scouse1958]

1958
Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US

The first US earth satellite, Explorer I, goes into orbit

Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis marries his 13 year old second cousin, Myra Brown

The "Quiz Show Scandals" rock the television industry and the nation

Vice President Richard Nixon faces hostile anti-American mobs during a visit to South America

14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship

Ellen DeGeneres, Michael Jackson, Ice-T, and Mark Cuban are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Baltimore Colts win the NFL championship

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote is published

Elvis Presley enters the U.S. Army

Movies Vertigo, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones

[Time Searcher]

1st. September 1939
Something eventful was about to take place but I was too young to be bothered then...

BTW - Flyer: Concorde 001 1st Flight - Toulouse->Toulouse 2 March 1969 and Concorde 002 1st. Flight - Filton, Bristol -> RAF Fairford 9 April 1969; I was there for both flights being involved in the Flight Test Programme...

[damienp]

Originally Posted by leopard680

1979... Er... Three Mile Island meltdown, and I'm not really sure what else happened that year...

****** maggie thatcher - thats what happened

[COLVERT]

My parents first brand new two bedroom house.

Cost 4,600 pounds.

My very first car was manufactured but I wouldn't own it until twenty one years later. ( Cost me 80 quids !! )








Colvert.

[damienp]

Originally Posted by COLVERT

My parents first brand new two bedroom house.

Cost 4,600 pounds.

My very first car was manufactured but I wouldn't own it until twenty one years later. ( Cost me 80 quids !! )


Colvert.

Was it one of those cars where you had to stick a handle in the front, then wind it up

[FLYER]

Originally Posted by damienp

Was it one of those cars where you had to stick a handle in the front, then wind it up

pampers time ..........

[stevemac]

Originally Posted by Scouse1958

1958
Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US

The first US earth satellite, Explorer I, goes into orbit

Rocker Jerry Lee Lewis marries his 13 year old second cousin, Myra Brown

The "Quiz Show Scandals" rock the television industry and the nation

Vice President Richard Nixon faces hostile anti-American mobs during a visit to South America

14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship

Ellen DeGeneres, Michael Jackson, Ice-T, and Mark Cuban are born

New York Yankees win the World Series

Baltimore Colts win the NFL championship

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote is published

Elvis Presley enters the U.S. Army

Movies Vertigo, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Defiant Ones

ditto, and some of the more bizarre things

Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit and is burned up.

The word Aerospace is coined, from the words Aircraft (aero) and Spacecraft (space), taking into consideration that the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace is to be one, or a single realm.

The Tybee Bomb, a 7,600 pound (3,500 kg) Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia.

Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.

Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio, releasing him 28 hours later.

A U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people, but no nuclear fission occurs.

The first parking meters are installed in Britain.

The Beatles, then The Quarrymen, pay 17 shillings and 6 pence to have their first recording session where recorded That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly and In Spite Of All The Danger by McCartney and Harrison.

TV series Blue Peter started.

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by damienp

Was it one of those cars where you had to stick a handle in the front, then wind it up

Fiat 500, Topolino.

Had 12 volt electrics.
Hydraulic brakes.
Independant all round suspension.
Four cylinder water cooled engine.
18 BHP.
Opening sun roof.


All these things on a pre-war car were exceptional.

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by FLYER

i was married for the first time

What ??????????


In the year you were born !!!!!!


Blimey; you started your tricks early . Lol.

[windrush]

1933
Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany