With a historical event for every year.
2006 - Thailand has its first military coup in 15 years. Italy wins the World Cup.
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With a historical event for every year.
2006 - Thailand has its first military coup in 15 years. Italy wins the World Cup.
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial on charges of crimes against humanity. Levees break, drowning New Orleans.
2004 - 2 Rovers land on Mars
2003 - Mars makes closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
2002--May 12 - Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U.S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2001 - Two hijacked planes strike each of the World Trade Towers, causing both to colapse and ending in excess of 3 000 lives.
2000--January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world, even though, provided you do not count 0 as a year, the new millennium did not technically begin until January 1, 2001. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that many in the news media had predicted.
1999 - The above-mentioned fuss over nothing continues. Mars Polar Lander go splat.
1998 - The arbitrarily declared International Year of the Ocean. Bill Clinton declares that he did not have sex with Monical Lewinsky. People care about this for some reason. Titanic wins eleven more academy awards than it deserves.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash in Paris
1996 ~ Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1995-- Oklahoma city bombinng also that year OJ simpson trial.
1994 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy).
1993--January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965). The man was a convicted pedophile and murderer, who requested hanging over lethal injection.
1992 ~ China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC. US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1991: Nadine Gordimer of South Africa is awarded the Nobel Peace prize. And I was born!
1990 - Glasgow is declared the European City of Culture :rolleyes:
1989 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1988 - George H. W. Bush is elected 41th President of the United States
count backwards choco cookie! count backwards
1987 - U2's The Joshua Tree is released, and it's a really good album :D
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Originally Posted by AimusSage
Wooops ! I'm embarassed :blush: I thought this was similar to the "Count to 10 000"-thread where posting historical events is a must...
Thanks for rectifying, maybe no one will notice :p
The right way now:
1986 - 24. Januar: The American spacecraft Voyager 2 passes Uranus and sends several pictures of the planet and its moons. (This might be interesting for the one of us ruling Uranus :) )
1985- Live aid concerts rais over £50 million for famine relief.
1984, February.
Anne Dobie Peebles of Sussex County, a 1944 alumna of the College of William and Mary, was elected the first woman rector in William and Mary's history.
1983--January 22 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
1982 ~ 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules.
1981 - Greece becomes a member of the European Community
1980--January 11 - Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
1979: The first human-powered aircraft flies across the English Channel: Bryan Allen pilots the Gossamer Albatross from Folkestone, England, to Cap Gris-Nez, France (June 12).
1978
- Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope in centuries.
- The first computer bulletin board system is created.
- Garfield debuts in newspapers.
1977 - STAR WARS Episode IV: A New Hope appears in theaters. That's historic enough for me. :D :cool:
1976 ~ USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR. Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon.
1975
After the Viet Cong flag was raised in Saigon, South Vietnam surrendered. It signaled the end of a long and bloody battle. President Ford said the whole ordeal "closes a chapter in the American experience."
1974--March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
On a personal note, I would fall three floors down a stairwell and shatter my left ankle. The doctor's would set the bones wrong, leading to surgery the next year.
Sorry for your terrible experience with incompetent doctors, Pen !
1973: The cashpoint is patented on June 4.
1972:
* January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
* February 4 - Mariner 9 sends pictures from Mars
* February 21 - The Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
* March 2 - Launch of Pioneer 10 spacecraft.
* April 16 - Apollo 16 launched
* July 23 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
1971 February 9 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. (Satch was one of my favorite pitchers and might have been the best there ever was!)
1970: Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney (future founders of Atari) begin their attempt to create an arcade version of Spacewar, calling it Computer Space.
1969
The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The improptu concert was broken up by the police.
In France, the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
July 20: First man on the moon!
1968 - Martin Luther King is murdered in a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4.
1967:
October 3 - William J. Knight sets a new airspeed record in a North American X-15, of Mach 6.72 (4,543 mph, 7,297 km/h). This is the fastest flight that the X-15 will make.