events in your birthyear
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LostLenore
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Bambi
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StevenK
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Strangelight
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snow2fall
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1981
16 Jan Gunmen shoot civil rights campaigner
18 Jan Nine die in Deptford house fire
21 Jan Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days
25 Jan Dissident Labour MPs plan new party
18 Feb Thatcher gives in to miners
23 Feb Rebel army takes over Spanish parliament
24 Feb Prince Charles and Lady Di to marry
09 Mar M5 rapist jailed for life
15 Mar Pakistani jet hostages released
23 Mar New measures to contain farm disease
24 Mar Biggs rescued after kidnapping
26 Mar 'Gang of four' launches new party
29 Mar Triumph at first London Marathon
30 Mar President Reagan is shot
10 Apr Hunger striker elected MP
11 Apr Brixton ablaze after race riot
05 May Bobby Sands dies in prison
12 May Second IRA protester dies in jail
13 May Thousands see Pope shot in Rome
07 Jun Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
13 Jun Queen shot at by youth
22 Jun Chapman pleads guilty to Lennon murder
05 Jul Police assaulted in Liverpool riots
18 Jul Violence erupts at Irish hunger strike protest
29 Jul Charles and Diana marry
09 Aug Second killer escapes from Broadmoor
03 Oct IRA Maze hunger strikes at an end
06 Oct Egypt's President Sadat assassinated
24 Oct CND rally attracts thousands
30 Oct Euthanasia chief jailed over suicides
25 Nov Brixton riots report blames racial tension
20 Dec Lifeboat crew missing after mission
13 Dec Military crackdown on Polish people
16 Jan Gunmen shoot civil rights campaigner
18 Jan Nine die in Deptford house fire
21 Jan Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days
25 Jan Dissident Labour MPs plan new party
18 Feb Thatcher gives in to miners
23 Feb Rebel army takes over Spanish parliament
24 Feb Prince Charles and Lady Di to marry
09 Mar M5 rapist jailed for life
15 Mar Pakistani jet hostages released
23 Mar New measures to contain farm disease
24 Mar Biggs rescued after kidnapping
26 Mar 'Gang of four' launches new party
29 Mar Triumph at first London Marathon
30 Mar President Reagan is shot
10 Apr Hunger striker elected MP
11 Apr Brixton ablaze after race riot
05 May Bobby Sands dies in prison
12 May Second IRA protester dies in jail
13 May Thousands see Pope shot in Rome
07 Jun Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
13 Jun Queen shot at by youth
22 Jun Chapman pleads guilty to Lennon murder
05 Jul Police assaulted in Liverpool riots
18 Jul Violence erupts at Irish hunger strike protest
29 Jul Charles and Diana marry
09 Aug Second killer escapes from Broadmoor
03 Oct IRA Maze hunger strikes at an end
06 Oct Egypt's President Sadat assassinated
24 Oct CND rally attracts thousands
30 Oct Euthanasia chief jailed over suicides
25 Nov Brixton riots report blames racial tension
20 Dec Lifeboat crew missing after mission
13 Dec Military crackdown on Polish people
snow2fall
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The Top 30 Pop Singles of 1981
1 BETTE DAVIS EYES, Kim Carnes
2 ENDLESS LOVE, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
3 LADY, Kenny Rogers
4 (Just Like) STARTING OVER, John Lennon
5 JESSIE'S GIRL, Rick Springfield
6 CELEBRATION, Kool and the Gang
7 KISS ON MY LIST, Daryl Hall and John Oates
8 I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT, Eddie Rabbitt
9 9 TO 5, Dolly Parton
10 KEEP ON LOVING YOU, REO Speedwagon
11 THE THEME FORM "GREATEST AMERICAN HERO" (Believe It Or Not), Joey Scarbury
12 MORNING TRAIN (Nine To Five), Sheena Easton
13 BEING WITH YOU, Smokey Robinson
14 QUEEN OF HEARTS, Juice Newton
15 RAPTURE, Blondie
16 A WOMAN NEEDS LOVE (Just Like You Do), Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio
17 THE TIDE IS HIGH, Blondie
18 JUST THE TWO OF US, Grover Wasington Jr. (with Bill Withers)
19 SLOW HAND, The Pointer Sisters
20 I LOVE YOU, The Climax Blues Band
21 WOMAN, John Lennon
22 SUKIYAKI, A Taste of Honey
23 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL, Abba
24 MEDLEY (Intro Venus/Sugar, Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want To Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going To Lose That Girl/Stars On 45), The Stars on 45
25 ANGEL OF THE MORNING, Juice Newton
26 LOVE ON THE ROCKS, Neil Diamond
27 EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD, Air Supply
28 THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE, Air Supply
29 GUILTY, Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb
30 THE BEST OF TIMES, Styx
1 BETTE DAVIS EYES, Kim Carnes
2 ENDLESS LOVE, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
3 LADY, Kenny Rogers
4 (Just Like) STARTING OVER, John Lennon
5 JESSIE'S GIRL, Rick Springfield
6 CELEBRATION, Kool and the Gang
7 KISS ON MY LIST, Daryl Hall and John Oates
8 I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT, Eddie Rabbitt
9 9 TO 5, Dolly Parton
10 KEEP ON LOVING YOU, REO Speedwagon
11 THE THEME FORM "GREATEST AMERICAN HERO" (Believe It Or Not), Joey Scarbury
12 MORNING TRAIN (Nine To Five), Sheena Easton
13 BEING WITH YOU, Smokey Robinson
14 QUEEN OF HEARTS, Juice Newton
15 RAPTURE, Blondie
16 A WOMAN NEEDS LOVE (Just Like You Do), Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio
17 THE TIDE IS HIGH, Blondie
18 JUST THE TWO OF US, Grover Wasington Jr. (with Bill Withers)
19 SLOW HAND, The Pointer Sisters
20 I LOVE YOU, The Climax Blues Band
21 WOMAN, John Lennon
22 SUKIYAKI, A Taste of Honey
23 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL, Abba
24 MEDLEY (Intro Venus/Sugar, Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want To Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better/Nowhere Man/You're Going To Lose That Girl/Stars On 45), The Stars on 45
25 ANGEL OF THE MORNING, Juice Newton
26 LOVE ON THE ROCKS, Neil Diamond
27 EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD, Air Supply
28 THE ONE THAT YOU LOVE, Air Supply
29 GUILTY, Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb
30 THE BEST OF TIMES, Styx
siderea
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Strangelight
steak(knife) no more
Maqus
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Susie
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Susie
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I dont know anything that happened in the year i was born i suppose if i looked on the net i would find something.
i suppose if i looked on the net i would find something.
Maqus
pocket frictionary
I remembered Ireland and the EU and the end of the Vietnam war, but not The Exorcist, hehe, nor Mike Oldfield.
snow2fall
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I don't know all of them, but I've grown up to the sound of my parents' 80s record compilations, so most of that stuff sounds very familiar to me...siderea said:do you know many of these?
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Morpheus
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1981, yeah, yis birthyear complements mine!
some more events:
The 1st launch of a space shuttle (Columbia)
Reagan fires the striking air traffic controllers and breaks up their union.
Pope shot by insane Turk, May 13.
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme Court Justice
Mitterand becomes French president (and will remain pres. well into the 90s)
Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29
Luke and Lauras's Wedding (General Hospital), Most watched wedding in history next to Charles and Diana.
Dynasty premiers in primetime hours and becomes a hit.
The US Agriculture Department trys making ketchup a school lunch vegetable
The first IBM-PC's begin to roll of the lines.
The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line.
August 1, The birth of MTV, the 24 hour-a-day music television station
Private satelite dishes are given the ok by the FCC
Fruit fly break out in California.
Regan starts toying with the Libyains, and deploys ships in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed rights to even though no one else recognized it as theirs.
Pac-Man is introduced in the US and sparks a huge craze.
Spain allows legal divorces.
Poland government crushes the Solidarity movement.
The first reports of homosexual men dying due to a mysterious breakdown of the bodies' immuminzation system. Later it becomes known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, aka AIDS and researches realize it can strike anyone.
52 American hostages released in January after 14 months in captivity in Iran
Antigua gained its independence November 1,1981
Assasination attempt on Ronald Regean on March 30, 1981 by John Hinkley
some more events:
The 1st launch of a space shuttle (Columbia)
Reagan fires the striking air traffic controllers and breaks up their union.
Pope shot by insane Turk, May 13.
Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme Court Justice
Mitterand becomes French president (and will remain pres. well into the 90s)
Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29
Luke and Lauras's Wedding (General Hospital), Most watched wedding in history next to Charles and Diana.
Dynasty premiers in primetime hours and becomes a hit.
The US Agriculture Department trys making ketchup a school lunch vegetable
The first IBM-PC's begin to roll of the lines.
The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line.
August 1, The birth of MTV, the 24 hour-a-day music television station
Private satelite dishes are given the ok by the FCC
Fruit fly break out in California.
Regan starts toying with the Libyains, and deploys ships in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed rights to even though no one else recognized it as theirs.
Pac-Man is introduced in the US and sparks a huge craze.
Spain allows legal divorces.
Poland government crushes the Solidarity movement.
The first reports of homosexual men dying due to a mysterious breakdown of the bodies' immuminzation system. Later it becomes known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, aka AIDS and researches realize it can strike anyone.
52 American hostages released in January after 14 months in captivity in Iran
Antigua gained its independence November 1,1981
Assasination attempt on Ronald Regean on March 30, 1981 by John Hinkley
breaklose
Spoof Member
bleed_black_orchid
biff and chips
breaklose
Spoof Member
1987
songs :
"Open Your Heart" ... Madonna
"Livin' on a Prayer" ... Bon Jovi
"With or Without You" ... U2
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" ... Kim Wilde
movies :
Beverly Hills Cop III
Dirty Dancing
Full Metal Jacket
La Bamba
Lethal Weapon
first intifada too.
songs :
"Open Your Heart" ... Madonna
"Livin' on a Prayer" ... Bon Jovi
"With or Without You" ... U2
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" ... Kim Wilde
movies :
Beverly Hills Cop III
Dirty Dancing
Full Metal Jacket
La Bamba
Lethal Weapon
first intifada too.
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