Sunday, November 26, 2006

The year I was born

What Happened the Year You Were Born?
What happened, way back then? To find out what happened when you were born, click on the link above. BTW, on the year and day I was born, the zip code was first instituted. I know, pretty exciting. AT LEAST I share the year with Johnny Depp.

In 1963 (the year you were born)

Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president of the US

A civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites, features Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as he rides in a motorcade through downtown Dallas

Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique, launching a middle-class feminist movement

Michael Jordan, Quentin Tarantino, Conan O'Brien, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt are born

Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series

The Beatles receive their first #1 hit single, when "Please Please Me" tops the charts in the UK

NBC expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes

The television remote control is authorized by the FCC

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