QOTD: born free

question of the day: name something that happened the year you were born.

Nixon resigned

How do I know? I couldn't even feed myself - all I did was cry and soil my diapers!

Hulk Hogan became the WWF champion

madonna released "Like a Virgin" and Ronald Reagan was re elected

I think Elvis died.

energy crisis

Nixon resigned. Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run.

I made it out just under the wire. Roe V. Wade.

i was born

in a nutshell, lots of disasters and Tron.

Jonestown mass suicide: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple in a mass murder-suicide; 913 die, including 276 children.

On the day of my birth, U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island and Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31.

Gosh, so many to choose from: Thriller won the Grammy for Album of the Year, the first Apple Macintosh went on sale, but most importantly, Miami Vice Premiered on NBC.

George W. Bush is arrested and fined for driving under the influence of alcohol. The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.

1/14/73:
Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins. The Dolphins become the first NFL team to go undefeated in a season.
1/23/73:
President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
3/24/73:
Rock band Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon, which will go on to become one of the most influential and commercially successful albums of all-time.
6/9/73:
Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
9/26/73:
Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.

1974: 1) Ramones begin playing popular New York clubs like CBGB. Their brand of rock'n'roll helps set the trend for the "punk" and "new wave" rockers of the Seventies and Eighties.
2) The United Nations sets the first international fax standard, which allows facsimile messages to be transmitted at about one page in six minutes.

The city of Saigon is surrendered and remaining Americans are evacuated, ending the Vietnam War. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Nashville, Dog Day Afternoon were in the movies.

• The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. • Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband • The first successfully predicted earthquake occurred in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. • King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a nephew with a history of mental illness - the killer is beheaded on June 18. • The Vietnam War ends as Communist forces take Saigon and South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally. • The Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park opens in Virginia. • The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War • In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing. • Rock music artist Bruce Springsteen releases his third album, Born To Run. • End of term for Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. • American television network NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live • Rock group Queen released the album A Night at the Opera, including their greatest hit Bohemian Rhapsody. • Left-wing terrorists, including Carlos (the Jackal), kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna. They kill three hostages, extort $5 million ransom and escape into the Middle East.
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The heavens opened up with an angelic chorus as I am given my first breath of life, knowing that now there is now male on this earth to one day confront the irrationality of the other species and put to rest, the myth: “A superior man does not only posses knowledge of woman and her physiology but cherishes her biological gifts”.
(I go to bed laughing at that one!! I supose that superior man also wears a red cape and can stop a speeding bullit)