The year I graduated ...1967...(what happened when YOU graduated)

[SoCalDem]

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/years/1967main.htm



December -

30-US casualty reports show that over 17,000 soldiers have died in Vietnam since 1961


other December happenings

DECEMBER

03 - A 53-year-old man, Louis Washansky, is given a new heart in a revolutionary transplant by Dr Christiaan Barnard in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
04 - Britain announces a ban on meat from countries with foot and mouth disease
09 - Nicolae Ceaucescu becomes premier of Rumania
10 - Soul star Otis Redding dies when his plane crashes into Lake Monoma in Madison, Wisconsin
17 - Australian Prime Minister Holt disappears in surf (b. 1908)
18 - USSR hails "Third Man" spy Kim Philby a hero
19 - John McEwen sworn in as acting Australian Prime Minister
21 - Heart transplant recipient Louis Washnasky dies as a result of lung complications
22 - Holt memorial service held in Melbourne, Australia
26 - The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour screens on the BBC to disappointing reviews. Even devoted Beatles fans are confused by the seemingly plotless film
30 - Ho Chi Minh sends a new year greeting from Hanoi to US anti-war protesters

[flamingyouth]

1. 1986

Of course the big news was the Challenger explosion...

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/years/1986main.htm

JANUARY
01 - Spain and Portugal join the European Economic Community (EEC)
04 - Thin Lizzy bass player and vocalist, Phil Lynott dies of heart failure after laying in a coma for a week following a drug overdose. He is 34 years old (b. August 20 1951)
07 - President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya, in response to their involvement in terrorist attacks on the Rome and Vienna airports last month
09 - British Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns after a Cabinet row about the procurement of helicopters in the "Westland Affair"
20 - Britain and France agree (again) to construct a tunnel beneath the English Channel linking the two countries
24 - Voyager 2 space probe flies past the planet Uranus
28 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes 74 seconds after take-off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing the crew of seven, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, the first private citizen to participate in a space shuttle flight

[GOPisEvil]

2. I graduated and turned 18 in June 1986

JUNE
04 - Ex-US Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, found guilty as spy for Israel
08 - Kurt Waldheim elected Austrian President, despite allegations of wartime Nazi involvement
12 - British government dissolves the Northern Ireland Assembly set up in 1982
13 - Jazz clarinet legend Benny Goodman dies
16 - Millions of South African blacks refuse to go to work following the government's declaration of a state of emergency and the arrest of over 1,000 black activists
17 - Chief Justice Warren Burger retires from the US Supreme Court. Reagan names the more conservative William Rehnquist as his successor, and also names Antonin Scalia to the court (my 18th birthday :evilfrown:)
27 - The International Court of Justice in The Hague rules that US aid to Contra rebels in Nicaragua is illegal
27 - After New Zealand bans US nuclear-armed warships in its waters, the US declares it cannot be bound by the 1951 ANZUS pact on NZ defence
29 - Argentina win the soccer World Cup in Mexico, beating West Germany 3-2
30 - US Supreme Court rules 5-4 that homosexual activity between consenting adults in the privacy of the home is not protected by the Constitution

[Blue_In_AK]

3. May 1964

MAY
18 - Mods and Rockers clash at Brighton on the English south coast
19 - 40 hidden microphones are uncovered in the US Embassy in Moscow
26 - Lenny Kravitz born
27 - India's PM and statesman since 1947, Jawaharlal 'Pandit' Nehru, dies
30 - In Peru, 300 people die after a riot at a football stadium in Lima

[solinvictus]

4. 1988

JULY

01 - The National conference of the USSR Communist party resolves to implement Perestroika (reform of the Soviet system)
03 - US warship Vincennes shoots down an Iranian airliner and kills 286 people
05 - US Attorney General Edwin Meese, under fire for various alleged criminal misdeeds, announces his resignation
06 - 167 people die in an explosion and fire on the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha
10 - Ethnic disputes flare up in Burundi between the dominant Tutsi and the Hutus, leaving thousands dead
11 - Terrorists kill nine tourists on Aegean cruise
18 - Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico dies
18 - A rock concert at Wembley Stadium marks Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday and agitates for his release from prison
18/21 - Massachusetts Governor George Dukakis is nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention. Texas Senator Lloyd Bensten, Jr is nominated as his running mate
21 - Sydney monorail begins operating

I also read the bit about Ben Johnson losing his Olympic medal for steroids. I can't believe it was that long ago. I feel so damn old.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Memories.... they tossed me out of high school the same year as you..

Okay, I graduated.

:D

[RFKHumphreyObama]

6. They don't have my graduation year -too recent-so you'll have to make do

with this instead

1999
January 1
Euro currency introduced.
An avalanche destroys a school gymnasium during New Years' celebrations in Kangiqsualujjuaq in far northern Quebec, killing 9.
January 2 - A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern USA, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (487 mm) at Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C), and 68 deaths are reported.
January 4 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25
January 20 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafes.
January 21 - War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4.3 t) of cocaine aboard. The ship was headed for Houston, Texas.
January 25 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. Fuck, I dunno dude

Grass was $80.00 a kilo. The Man wanted us to go kill gooks cause they hadn't invented Arabs yet. I could fill my V.W. for $2.00 and drive it for a week. Rent was $250 a month. In all, not much has changrd except that we didn't have a Christian Taliban yet.

[Goathead]

8. June 1987

02 - Australian Chamberlains are pardoned over baby Azaria death
09 - Neil Kinnock says of Margaret Thatcher: "She only went to Venice because somebody told her she could walk down the middle of the street".
11 - Margaret Thatcher wins record third term as British PM
17 - Five convicted of brutal Anita Cobby killing in Sydney, Australia
22 - Dancer and actor Fred Astaire dies at age of 88

Not very exciting.


:-(

[SoCalDem]

9. Wellll.. those WERE Reagan years

:P

[Huckebein the Raven]

10. They don't have anything for 1998

:(

too recent I guess :shrug:

[SoCalDem]

11. Not "nostalgia" yet

.

[Nicole]

12. 1976 - I remember bicentennial stuff everywhere & Carter being Elected

As the United States of America wished itself a happy 200th birthday, raised its flags and watched hundreds of boats pour into it’s harbours, three beautiful crime-fighting ladies were busy inventing 'jiggle TV' . . . 1976 was the year that heroic male
detectives were replaced with guns, hair, make-up, Kate, Jaclyn and
Farrah.

On the big screen we were shown that endings are not always so happy: Sissy Spacek killed her classmates for making fun of her in Carrie, Rocky lost the championship against Apollo, and the Bad News Bears never won their little league victory.



July was a big news month:

JULY

02 - North and South Vietnam are reunited as one nation, the Socialist republic of Vietnam
03 - US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment
03 - Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg, aged 20, wins the Wimbledon men's single tennis title
04 - US celebrates its bicentennial
04 - Israeli airborne commandos attack Uganda's Entebbe Airport and free 103 hostages held by pro-Palestinian hijackers on an Air France plane; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers killed in raid
07 - Queen Elizabeth visits the US
10 - The town of Seveso near Milan in northern Italy is devastated by the release of poisonous dioxin gas from a nearby pesticide plant
14 - Former Georgia Governor James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr wins Democratic nomination.
15 - Senator Walter Mondale is nominated as Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate
17 - The Olympic Games open in Montreal, Canada. Subsequently 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci scores the first perfect 10 ever awarded in her sport
20 - Viking 1 spacecraft lands on Mars and sends back to Earth the first close-up pictures of the planet's surface
27 - Three years and four months after he was ordered to leave the US by the Immigration Department, John Lennon is finally granted a Green Card
29 - Chinese city of Tangshan is devastated by huge earthquake

[lpbk2713]

13. November 1963

President John F Kennedy and his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald both shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.

[BikeWriter]

14. I shipped out to VietNam in 1967.

[xmas74]

15. Not on there.

1993-I helped sandbag during the floods (lots of them that year).

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. Mine doesn't go that far- 1992.

But I do remember the fall of the USSR, Big Dog winning the election, the LA riots, Nirvana bumping Michael Jackson off the top of the charts, and Dan Quayle misspelling "potato," among others.

[CO Liberal]

17. For My Fellow Members of the Class of 1971

Some simple 1971 facts first: bread was 25 cents a loaf. Eggs were $1.18 a dozen, A stamp cost 8 cents while an average house would set you back $28,300 - and all from an average income of $11,583 a year (minimum wage was $1.60/hr).

1971 was a little confusing. The Vietnam War was still going on, the US invaded Laos, and the movies gave us Shaft and Dirty Harry cleaning things up vigilante style . . . ”do you feel lucky punk?”.

American kids of 1971 were busy learning how to enunciate correctly from the Electric Company while shovelling spoonfuls of Count Chocula and Cocoa Pebbles cereal into their mouths. Meanwhile, the teenagers of 1971 were getting busy in their Ford Pinto’s as Led Zeppelin played Stairway To Heaven.

But all 1971 really wanted to do was to buy the world a Coke and keep it company - right on!

JANUARY

02 - 66 Football fans are killed when barrier collapses at Ibrox Park, Glasgow

07 - Long hair for men is declared legal in the USSR

11 - First divorce in UK on sole grounds of "Irretrievable Breakdown" granted

19 - The first all-out strike in the 300 year history of the British Post Office halts UK postal services

25 - Coup puts Idi Amin in power in Uganda

31 - Apollo 14 mission launched

[devilgrrl]

18. 1981

AUGUST


01 - MTV, television's first 24-hour music channel, premieres at 12:01 and changes the music business forever
01 - IRA hunger striker Kevin Lynch dies in Belfast prison; reaction on streets shows weakening support for strikers
02 - IRA hunger striker Kieran Doherty dies in Belfast prison
03 - 13,000 members of PATCO, the American air traffic controllers union, go on a nationwide strike. Reagan gives them two days to return to work or else lose their jobs
03 - Mafia chief Carlos Marcello convicted in FBI Brilab sting operation
04 - Reagan's plan to reduce income taxes is passed by Congress. The bill reduces income taxes by 5% as of October 1, 10% as of July 1, 1982 and a further 10% from July 1, 1983
05 - Reagan administration sends termination notices to all air traffic controllers on strike. PATCO union leaders are arrested
07 - Over one million Solidarity members strike in Poland over food shortages
08 - IRA hunger striker Thomas McElwee dies in Belfast's Maze Prison
10 - President Reagan authorizes production of the neutron bomb
12 - East German successfully escapes across Berlin Wall to West Germany
12 - IBM introduces PC (with 64k of RAM and a single floppy disk drive) and PC-DOS version 1.0 
15 - Fatalities result when a crane collides with an amusement park ride in Hamburg, West Germany
15 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Patrick Quinn agrees to end strike
16 - New Zealand's 13-0 defeat of Fiji sets record for highest score in World Cup soccer
19 - US aircraft shoot down two Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after the planes open fire on the US Navy. Libya claim the Gulf is Libyan territory, while the US insist that the body of water 60 miles off the coast of Libya is international territory
20 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Michael Devine dies in Belfast, N. Ireland
21 - Family of jailed IRA hunger striker Patrick McGeown give authorities permission to save his life
24 - Mark Chapman is sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering John Lennon
24 - Church of England becomes the Anglican church in Australia
25 - Kings Cross (Australia) fire kills nine people
30 - Iranian President & Prime Minister assassinated in bomb blast

[Blue Diadem]

19. 1973, some of these things I'd forgotten took place that year,

Jan,
22 - Former US President Lyndon B Johnson dies
22 - The Supreme Court legalizes abortion in the US
27 - US, North and South Vietnam and the Vietcong sign a peace treaty bringing the Vietnam war to an end
30 - James W McCord and G Gordon Liddy are convicted of breaking into and illegally wiretapping Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex

March
23 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in the USA but John Lennon is ordered to leave the country within 60 days
29 - Last US troops leave Vietnam

Oct
17 - Eleven Arab OPEC states agree to cut oil production and raise prices by over 70% in protest at US support of Israel

Edited to add Thanks for the great link!

[SoCalDem]

21. There are a lot of fun television "facts" at the site too

I love places like this :) time killers :)

[BrewerJohn]

20. 1972

MAY

02 - FBI founder, J Edgar Hoover dies
06 - Thousands of members of the Tutsi tribe are massacred in the African republic of Burundi by members of the Hutu tribe, backed by Congolese mercenaries
09 - Israeli commandos rescue 92 Black September hijack victims
11 - John Lennon appears on the Dick Cavett TV Show claiming he is under constant surveillance by the FBI, and that his telephone has been tapped
15 - Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot by Arthur H. Bremer at a political rally in Laurel, Maryland. The assassination attempt leaves Wallace paralysed from the waist down
22 - Nixon becomes first US President to visit USSR
26 - Nixon and Brezhnev sign Moscow pact - a treaty limiting strategic arms

JUNE

01/15 - West German police arrest the Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla group
04 - Black activist Angela Davis is found innocent of abetting a 1970 courtroom escape that left four dead
08 - US Planes bomb Vietnamese village in error
13 - Clyde McPhatter, original vocalist with The Drifters, dies
15 - British Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher discontinues free milk to British schoolchildren
17 - Five intruders are caught trying to install listening devices in the Democratic National Committee's Watergate offices in Washington. One of them is James McCord, a former CIA agent currently working for the Republican National Committee
29 - US Supreme Court rules that death penalty is unconstitutional

NOVEMBER

07 - Nixon re-elected over George McGovern in the largest Republican landslide in history
11 - Berry Oakley, bass player of The Allman Brothers, is killed in a motorcycle accident three blocks from where Duane Allman was also killed

DECEMBER

07 - Apollo 17 is launched, the sixth and last spacecraft of that series. Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt splash back to Earth on December 19 carrying 249 lb of rock and soil samples from the Moon
18 - US tries to force North Vietnam back to the conference table with resumption of full-scale bombing of North Vietnam after Paris peace negotiation reach impasse
24 - Earthquake kills 10,000 in Managua, Nicaragua
26 - Former US President Harry S Truman dies
30 - Nixon orders halt to Hanoi bombing

[bufffbison]

22. hmm. guess the year i was born with this fact

Rock & roller Ozzy Osbourne is hospitalised after biting the head off a bat thrown at him during a concert


i wasn't born on that month, but its in the same year.

[Dave Sund]

23. 2003

Obviously they don't have anything for that, but I'd say more than anything what happened during my senior year made me realize that I'm a liberal. The things that will stand out, more than anything, when I look back years from now, are these...

- Bush begins his illegal and immoral war in Iraq. This may surprise you, considering that I am from Omaha, but I actually had a lot of people who agreed with me. We had Chuck Hagel come speak at our school, and he laid out the reasons why he wasn't all gung-ho about Iraq (though he, like everyone else, ended up relenting anyway.) Every class period seemed to involve a discussion about the social and political repercussions of this war. And, being at a Jesuit school that encourages and even fosters critical thinking certainly helped those of us who were against it to speak up and be counted.

- Our school's President, a Jesuit priest who was going to leave the school at the end of the year, anyway, was forced to resign by the school's Board of Directors (read: a bunch of bigoted white businessmen), after bringing in a former teacher to speak at a Service Mass. Thing is, this former teacher was also openly gay. And he said so. Those of us who knew him did not see this as offensive at all, and we were quite displeased in the following days when parents, who weren't at the mass, of kids who never knew him, started getting mad at the president for bringing him in to speak.

This was in the last two weeks of classes. Many of us were livid, that this school that preaches tolerance, and understanding, would do such a thing. Teachers were incredibly pissed, especially since this was a person that they worked with. The establishment's explanation never sufficed. It was quite clear that this was a homophobic backlash.

Not much else happened of significance to me as a high school student. Iraq dominated the news that year. And it's the main outrage I'll remember from this time. The tipping point that sent me to the side where I should have been all along.

[Mz Pip]

24. Another 1967 here

:hi:

One thing I remember was the huge record snow fall in Chicago that January. We might as well have been in Alaska.

My boyfriend went to Vietnam that year as a marine.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Tikki]

25. Summer of Love......

Another 1967 graduate here....Mr. Tikki and I were married in 1967...during The Summer of Love.



Tikki

[two gun sid]

26. 1978 and the month I graduated....

JUNE

06 - Proposition 13, a controversial California constitutional amendment to cut state property taxes by 57% wins over California voters. Amendment reduces the state's revenues from $12 billion to $5 billion
15 - Italian president Giovanni Leone resigns after allegations of fiscal misconduct
24 - The president of North Yemen is killed by a bomb
25 - Argentina wins the (soccer) World Cup, beating Netherlands 3-1
26 - The president of South Yemen is killed by the same faction that murdered the North Yemeni president two days earlier
28 - In the case of Bakke v the University of California, the US Supreme Court rules that the college has to admit white applicant Allan Bakke to its medical school. Bakke claimed his civil rights had been violated by the school's minority-student admission quota



The great Affirmed becomes the 11th Triple Crown winner in US history, defeating his arch rival Alydar in one of the most exciting Belmont Stakes races ever. Alydar finished second to Affirmed in all three legs of the Triple Crown. No horse has completed a sweep of the Triple Crown races since.

"...it's Alydar in front. Now Affirmed under a left-hand whip..."

[RetroLounge]

27. June 1979

June 11 - John Wayne loses his fight against cancer. Wayne, 72, began his career under his real name, Marion Morrison, nicknamed "Duke" as a student on vacation. He was married three times and had seven children.

RL

[Melynn]

28. 1974 - Nixon resigns

A good year!

[graywarrior]

29. I also graduated in '67

25 - Boston Strangler recaptured after escape from mental hospital

He was recaptured up the street from my house by a cop who was the father of one of my school friends. I remember telling my mother after she freaked out over his escape that "ya sure, like he's gonna come here."

[Bossy Monkey]

30. 1980. The world fucking ended. First time of many

I don't have to look it up.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. I graduated in 2003

Which isn't listed on that site.

[Anthropologist]

32. June 2001

I graduated June 2001...little did I know what would happen in Sweet September. ::sigh:: Anyhow, it was one strange year, with the American spy plane stranded in China, and Bush flopping on almost everything until 9/11. It figures, why did this century have to turn out to be so ugh?