2007-06-26 06:38:45 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/newsid_2533000/2533219.stm
2007-06-26 06:45:48 · update #1
My Mum suddenly lost loads of weight
2007-06-26 06:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Aretha Franklin is the first woman inducted in the rock & roll hall of fame
The New York Giants defeat the Denver Broncos, 39-20, in Super Bowl XXI to win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1956.
NASCAR driver Bill Elliott sets all time fastest lap at Talladega Motor Speedway. 211 MPH
U.S. Senator Gary Hart drops out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, amid allegations of an extra-marital affair with Donna Rice.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominates former Solicitor General Robert Bork, a controversial conservative judge and legal scholar, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The United States is caught up in a drama that unfolds on television as a young child, Jessica McClure, falls down a well in Midland, Texas, and is later rescued.
Black Monday: stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.
World population reached 5 billion people.
2007-06-26 06:42:46 · answer #2 · answered by Susana M. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1956
Winter Olympics Cortina Italy.
Summer Equestrian Olympics Stockholm
Summer Olympics Melbourne Australia.
Grace Kelly married Prince Ranier
Hydrogen bomb dropped on Bikini Attol
Soviet Union invaded Hungary
Suez Crisis
First Eurovision Switzerland.
Born.
Mel Gibson
Johnny Rotton
Bjon Bprg
Jerry Hall
Tom Hanks
Lord Seb Coe.
Died
AA Milne [Winnie the Pooh]
Walter de la Mare [ poet I think]
Jackson Pollock [artist]
Bela Lagousi [ film star ]
2007-06-27 05:46:58 · answer #3 · answered by echo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1975
Jaws released
Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of the Tories
Charlie Chaplin Knighted
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated
Arther Ashe - first black man to win Wimbledon
first Brits climb Mount Everest
Ali beat Frazier
Angola gains Independence
England hosts cricket world cup
last American troops leave Vietnam
Microsoft in founded
West Ham won the FA Cup beating Fulham 2-0
Queen had the Christmas number 1 with Bohemian Rhapsody
2007-06-26 20:33:57 · answer #4 · answered by homemanager22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
US launches Christmas bombing campaign against Hanoi, North Vietnam.
Last US ground units leave Vietnam.
FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover dies.
"Pong" introduces the video game craze.
SALT I treaty limiting nuclear arms signed by US and USSR.
USA and USSR sign ABM Treaty, limiting anti-ballistic missiles.
Black September terrorist attack at Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes killed.
US President, Richard Nixon, visits the People's Republic of China.
Goodyear Blimp flies for the first time.
Ceylon becomes a republic, and renames itself Sri Lanka.
Bobby Fischer beats Boris Spassky to become World Chess Champion.
2007-06-26 06:42:08 · answer #5 · answered by anch49 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Korean War
The Orderly in the hospial where I was born was accidentally putting salt into the water bottles instead of sugar. They found out why all the babies were dying just before I got my bottle.
2007-06-26 08:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I came out 3 months early. It snowed, my family was frightened because i was too early and was born disabled, later that year, President kennedy was shot, my dad started a delivery service.
To the master, Aw, how profound.
2007-06-26 06:42:46 · answer #7 · answered by stick man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Castro came to power 1959
2007-06-26 06:42:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
America's Bicentenial.
2007-06-26 06:41:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the hottest year on record. Swarms of ladybirds attacked everyone and tiger sharks were found on the south coast. My mum was eating melted tarmac off of lolly pop sticks, which explains why I smoke I suppose!!
2007-06-26 12:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chernobyl disaster.
2007-06-26 06:58:18 · answer #11 · answered by Micky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋