What is your year of birth and something that happened that year?

August 29 1981... the Cubs won over the Dodgers... LOL yeah... pretty uneventful day!!

now just 1981 alone..

1981

World tradegy strikes when Bucks Fizz wins the Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up.

The Rubik's cube craze was running at full steam.

The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, launches.

Charles, Prince of Wales decides to take a bride - Lady Diana Spencer or 'Lady Di'. 16 years later she dies in a high speed car accident in Paris. (yeah and she died RIGHT before my sweet 16!)

Worldwide, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' was the highest grossing film of 1981

In the US, five gay men are disgnosed with a rare form of pneumonia. This particular type of disease was generally observed in patients with weakened immune systems. Later it was understood that these were the first US cases of AIDS.

After all his hard work to bring peace to his country, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated. This ocurred during a military parade and was instigated by army members that were opposed to Egypt's negotiations with Israel.

An assasination attempt was made on The Pope. He was shot and injured quiet badly, but lived.

John Hinkley tries to assasinate US President Ronald Regean. Later in hosptial Regean quips 'Honey I forgot to duck'. John Hinkley was apparently obsessed with Jodi Foster after repeteadly watching Taxi Driver and was trying to find ways to get her attention.

Late in the year, a car bomb is detonated outside the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut. It kills 61 people and is sadly recognised as the first modern suicide bomb.

France finally decides to join humanity and abolishes capital punishment.

IBM releases something called a Personal Computer.

MTV (US) launches and amazingly, understands what the M actually means - and it's not reality TV.

I copied and pasted it: In 1983, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster. In the year 1983, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was Return of the Jedi by James Kahn. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover! Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers. Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom. Failure of automatic shut-down at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA. The final episode of M*A*S*H is aired and the record of most watched episode is broken A reactor is shut-down due to failure of fuel rods at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia. India wins the Prudential Cricket World Cup. The Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan. Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter. Six men walk underwater across the Sydney Harbor -- 82.9 km in 48 hours. The Red Hot Chili Peppers launch their first, self-titled album. Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war. Many Soviet officials misinterpret the NATO exercise Able Archer 83 as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War. The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Michael Jackson's world famous music video for "Thriller" is broadcast for the first time. It becomes the most often repeated and famous music video of all time, increasing his own popularity and record sales of the album "Thriller". The video game of the day was Dragon's Lair. it's 1983. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is The A-Team. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Hardcastle and McCormick on now. That's the world you were born in. Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards? The technology available today would have blown your mind in 1983. Do you know what was invented in the year you were born? The Personal Digital Assistant. The First TCP/IP Network. Color LCD Television. In 1983, a new character entered the world of comic books: Wild Child. Bang! Boom! But that's just fiction, right? In the real world, in 1983, Kim Smith was born. And Kim Clijsters. Samantha Mumba, too. And you, of course. Everyone an individual. Everyone special. Everyone taking a different path through life. It's 2012. The world is a different place. What path have you taken?

I was born September 21, 1990.

Here's what happened in September of that year:

* September 2 - Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.

* September 9 - First Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.

* September 11 - Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.

* September 12 - The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

* September 19 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army tries to assassinate Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry at his home near Stafford, England. Hit by at least 9 bullets, the former Governor of Gibraltar survives.

* September 29 - Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral is finished.

Born on my birthday in 1990: # 1990 - Allison Scagliotti, American actress

# 1990 - Christian Serratos, American actress

December 1965

Friday 10:

The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

Thursday 30:

Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines

1990

Simpsons seen for the first time on Fox

The Berlin Wall falls

First webpage on the WWW is published

People figure out there's a hole in the ozone layer above the south pole

First GPS goes on sale

There were a ton more things but, eh :D

February 26th 1993: World Trade Center bombing in the North tower where 6 were killed and over 1000 people were injured.

1973 April 30 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.

1993

Pearl Jam released Vs.

Nirvana released In Utero (their best album)

Guns N' Roses released The Spaghetti Incident

In one year Oasis would release Definitely Maybe

MCMLXXIII

1973

Sydney Opera House opens.

The Sting won best picture.

World Trade Center in NYC is dedicated and opens.

1960: Vietnam is still a Police Action not a War!