2007-03-11 22:00:38 · 45 answers · asked by SidBridge 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
besides me being born, i have no idea
2007-03-11 22:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ ltlsunny ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1973:
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City with a ribbon-cutting ceremony
The Sears Tower in Chicago is finished, becoming the world's tallest building.
Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
J.R.R. Tolkien dies.
The United States Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.
An eventful year, to say the least. >.<
2007-03-11 22:13:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elvis Presley's Aloha From Hawaii television special was seen around the world by more than 1 billion viewers , U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon, Mike Oldfield released Tubular Bells (the first release on the Virgin label), Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturned state bans on abortion, The Who released Quadrophenia, The World Trade Center officially opened in New York City, the Yom Kippur War took place, Sam Tyler travelled back in time from 2006.
Ryan Giggs, Monica Lewinsky, Kate Beckinsale, Noel Fielding, Josh Homme, Dermot O'Leary, and David Blaine all share this year of birth with me.
Edward G Robinson, Noel Coward, Betty Grable, Bruce Lee, JRR Tolkien, W. H. Auden, and Pablo Picasso all shuffled off their mortal coil.
MCMLXXIII
2007-03-12 02:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by warrobcol 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
Johnny Logan wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song, What's Another Year.
The only good things that happened that year!
2007-03-12 02:12:32 · answer #4 · answered by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, quite a few. Six-Day War (Arab-Israeli War); Elvis wed Priscilla; Supreme Court declares all state laws banning interracial marriages to be unconstitutional; Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American in the Supreme Court; Vietnam War; LSD declared illegal in the US; Summer of Love; Scientists discover "pulsars" and "quarks" Most importantly, well, I was born!
2007-03-11 22:19:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
England won the World Cup - 1966
2007-03-11 22:04:11 · answer #6 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Korean war ended on the very day I was born
2007-03-11 22:05:27 · answer #7 · answered by EvelynMine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MMmmm the theme tune to the Good the Bad and the Ugly was No1 on the day i was born.
2007-03-11 22:06:51 · answer #8 · answered by smiler 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born in 1988, I don't think it was a particularly signifigant year but I was born on St. Patrick's day, being Irish that is a big deal!!!
2007-03-11 22:12:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I was born. It was 1980. Can't think at the moment of what happened that year.
2007-03-11 22:04:17 · answer #10 · answered by biancajh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1969 - Man first set foot on the moon, Not as a direct result of me being born, I hope!!
2007-03-11 22:04:50 · answer #11 · answered by crockett 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋