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Truly_Complexed
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Truly_Complexed asked in News & EventsMedia & Journalism · 1 decade ago

Can you name one major news story that happened in the year you were born?

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  • rcsanandreas
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 people from the University of Texas at Austin's tower.

    The first recorded act of violence of this type.

    August 1,1966

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Alaska and Hawaii became states

    Castro becomes leader of Cuba

    Barbie Doll make her debut

    Buddie Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash in Iowa.

  • Roy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Several - East and West Germany formally established; Mao and the commies assume control of China; NATO is established, and Newfoundland becomes the 10th province of Canada.

  • twinsisterwendy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    On the day i was born, november 21st 1981, there was a big protest in Amsterdam, against rocket weapons.

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  • CHARITY G
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Hurricane Carmen - as seen in Forrest Gump.

  • Lighting Man
    1 decade ago

    Nixon quit as President

  • Nola
    1 decade ago

    I was born lol jk.

    Um Elvis Presley died.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the legends of rappers became famous im talkin about tupac

  • Stephan C
    1 decade ago

    bill clinton got elected~!

  • Bittersweet
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    lol...then you'd know how truly elderly I am!

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