What happened in the year you were born?

[Maidrite]

1960

Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US

Sit-ins being after 4 black college students in North Carolina refuse to move from a deli counter when denied service

A U-2 reconnaissance plane belonging to the US is shot down in the Soviet Union

Hurricane "Donna" strikes the East Coast causing over 100 deaths in the US and the Antilles

John F. Kennedy defeats Vice President Richard Nixon in the presidential race

Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight

Michael Stipe, Tony Robbins, Bono, John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Jeffrey Dahmer are born

Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series

Philadelphia Eagles win the NFL championship

Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is the top grossing film

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is published

The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, Germany

The Flintstones debut

 

[cartwheelmac]

Ditto on Cameron!

Grace

 

[Dove]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In 1933 (the year you were born)[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president of the US

Mae West makes her film debut in She Done Him Wrong based on one of her Broadway plays

Franklin Roosevelt begins his "fireside chats"

The 21st Amendment passes, putting an end to Prohibition

FDR declares a bank holiday to stabilize the economy

The chocolate chip cookie is invented

Yoko Ono, Quincy Jones, James Brown, Dom DeLuise, and Michael Dukakis are born

New York Mets win the World Series

Chicago Bears win the NFL championship

New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup

King Kong premieres in New York City [/FONT]

 

[Barbara L]

Ditto on Cameron!

Grace

What a coincidence!

Barbara

 

[Barbara L]

Sneaky Marge! But not quite sneaky enough! LOL

Barbara

 

[Zontec]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In 1961 (the year you were born)[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]John F. Kennedy becomes president of the US

An estimated 1200 anti-Castro exiles aided by the US make a failed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first US spaceman rocketing 118 miles above the earth

Hurricane "Carla" wipes out Texas gulf cities, claiming 46 lives

Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned space flight

Wayne Gretzky, Henry Rollins, Fabio, George Clooney, Dennis Rodman, and Diana, Princess of Wales are born

New York Yankees win the World series

Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship

Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup

Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians is the top grossing film

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is published

The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single [/FONT]