While there is a very strong US bias in the events, this is an interesting exercise.
In XXXX (the year you were born) |
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is president of the US DNA, the basic genetic material of the cell, is found by scientists at the Rockefeller Institute D-Day, the Normandy invasion of Europe by the US and the Allies begins US forces land at Leyte, in the Philippines President Roosevelt signs the GI Bill giving education and housing benefits to veterans A tip leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term Jimmy Page, Jerry Springer and Diana Ross are born St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship Montreal Canadians win the Stanley Cup Pippi Longstocking is published in Sweden |
My favorite event from the year of my birth was the outbreak of the Second Punic War.
I may have to steal that line
Wow. Marilyn Monroe was found dead the year i was born… i’d love to claim that i was her in my prior life, but that would be hallucinatory on my part…
Never – I am convinced you are MM reincarnated!
same year as Fabio and Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins? WOW!
The Cat in the Hat? And were you raised on a diet of Green Eggs and Ham?
Harry Truman is president of the US
The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly opens
During a speech in Missouri, Churchill declares an “iron curtain” has descended across Europe
The bikini two-piece bathing suit is introduced, named after the “ultimate impact” of the atomic testing in Bikini Atoll
A strike by 400,000 mine workers and other industries begins
Congress passes the Atomic Energy Act
Cher, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg, and Bill Clinton are born
St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series
Chicago Bears win the NFL championship
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
B.B. King’s musical career begins
So it was before the Second Punic War – - –
You’re dead.
Not yet –