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18/10/69 or 10/18/69..

• 9,041 Posts

  Thu, Oct 17 2013 10:43 PM

  PaulTon:

  All in 1969 -

  Concorde's 1st test flight

  Beatles play Abbey Road roof

  Jim Morrison arrested for getting his tackle out on stage

  Bowie releases Space Oddity album

  US air force close operation bluebook (ufo sightings)

  Star Trek starts airing on UK tv

  Boris Karloff dies

  Oliver wins best picture and director Oscars

  Tony Jacklin wins the Open

  USA retain the Ryder Cup by tying the match 16-16

  Manchester City win the F.A. cup

  I had my 7th birthday

  The first in vitro fertilization of a human egg is performed in Cambridge, England.

  A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died. 

  Scientists at Harvard isolate a single gene for the 1st time.

  Top Ten Movies: 
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 
  Midnight Cowboy (1969) 
  The Wild Bunch (1969) 
  Easy Rider (1969) 
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) 
  The Italian Job (1969) 
  Andrey Rublyov (1969) 
  Take the Money and Run (1969) 
  True Grit (1969) 
  Z (1969) 

  Srry Paul, nothing interesting, as 95+ % of facts were already known, and the others weren't....well, interesting.

  One in there would've won but you can't just 'carpet bomb' the gaff   :-))

• 9,041 Posts

  Thu, Oct 17 2013 10:55 PM

  fatdan:

  SALT talks between US and Russia

  Now that's interesting...had to google it.. ( SALT )

  Doesn't happen very often ^^^  ^^^

  Sent

• 9,041 Posts

  Thu, Oct 17 2013 11:09 PM

  fatdan:

  1969 my junior year in high school,got laid for the first time

  And that was a HUGE accomplishment in the 60's lol. Most of the time we just lied about doing it on Mondays...

  We were still lying in 1984 ;-))

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Thu, Oct 17 2013 11:19 PM

  Happy effing Birthday Andy...FFS we played ( just a bit ago and I had no idea...)

   

  PS...ya young eff!

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Thu, Oct 17 2013 11:26 PM

  No ball pining...but I have to think..'69 I was in the 3rd grade...Nixon had to have been elected and in house by then.

   

  It was later in the year (and not relevant to life in general) but Tammy Tompson (if I recall correctly) was the first girl in my grammar school to wear short pants...girls were allowed to wear long pants or dresses,,we guys just wore Jeans-for the most part...heck ya...good times!!!

• oneeyedjohn 9,567 Posts

  Fri, Oct 18 2013 12:02 AM

  Can't think of a damn thing for that year apart from taking marijuana and LSD for the first time.

  I was released from Borstal on Xmas Eve, not much else.

  All the very best Al.

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Fri, Oct 18 2013 12:06 AM

  Happy Birthday m8

  1969....  I was 9 years old and been in Australia for 4 years (born in Sri Lanka)

  Just a couple of Aussie sporting points

  Rchmond defeats Carlton in the VFL Grand Final... yayyyyy

  Shane Warne... Australia's greatest cricket bowler was born

  -Roger

   

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Fri, Oct 18 2013 12:09 AM

  A slightly different take on a very significant year....not only with your arrival but for aviation. Apart from the Moon Landing, the  747's first flight in Feb 69 and was certified in Dec. Also the first Concorde Flight -WHAT A YEAR. We will forget that Airbus were also trying to internally combust with the A300 project.

  Oh and to be balanced, (what me balanced?) the internet was born.

  Happy Birthday Andy

• 9,041 Posts

  Fri, Oct 18 2013 12:14 AM

  MBaggese:

  PS...ya young eff!

  lol, Hey, not my fault..................blame the parents ! 

  Or is it a case of ' visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children' ;-))

  Thx Mike

• Mushy01 2,567 Posts

  Fri, Oct 18 2013 12:21 AM

  I'd already celebrated my 4th birthday :-(

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY Andy bud ........;-)