1966 - 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.
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1966 - 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.
1967............O_o (confusedly bored face)o_O............1967
:d 1968 :d
1969 - Man walks on the Moon... and Neil Armstrong misstates his lines and turns a profound statement into mush. Instead of the thoughtful, "That's one step for a man; one giant leap for Mankind," he bungled out, "That's one small step for Man; one giant leap for Mankind."
(not his fault -- it was lost transmission)
1970 - Disco era officially begins. Darn.
1971: I graduated from High School with a 3.2 GPA and a 99th percentile on the ACT -- neither of which was sufficient to get me into college. On the plus side, my number in the Selective Services lottery was 319, saving me from the draft and Vietman. And now you know more about me than my wife feels comfortable with revealing, so I'll probably sleep on the sofa tonight.
1972 - Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes
1973--the year Gwen Stacy died and Spider-man changed forever. Plus the first time I got out the Air Force but not the last.
1974 ....................
1975 I undergo surgery to rebuild my left ankle, shattered by a three-story-fall the year before and set wrong by the doctors. They tell me I will never walk without a limp, and will probably never run again. The very next year, I almost break a school record for fastest time in the 600 yard run. I ran two miles every evening, and five on Saturday for the next several years and played basketball with guys half my age right up until my nervous breakdown. So doctors don't know everything. My left leg is a bit shorter than my right, but at 300+ pounds I still can move surprisingly fast!
1976
September 21 - Seychelles joins the United Nations.
September 21 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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1980 - The Reagan Era begins