What year were you born?

[Memphis]

Re: What year were you born?

US GDP (1998 dollars): $2,784.20 billion
Federal spending: $590.95 billion
Federal debt: $909.1 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $17,710
Consumer Price Index: 82.4
Unemployment: 7.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15

Unemployment ain't that far off from now. In my year of birth (88) it was 5.5%.

US Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jet fighter; 290 killed (July 3).

^How did that play out? I never heard of that happening till now

[Scott Liggett]

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I'm not saying. I lie how old I am and people believe me. It comes from being around Hollywood people too long.

[Barry Donovan]

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wow. Even in my own time...

Median Household Income
(current dollars): $10,512

the year I was born.

my dad bought a brand spanking new ford f250 with a 390 oddball for 1700 bucks...today? I could only guess. It was the last of the '72 manly machines...
a vw beetle, mint condition, one of the first late 60s GTO surprisers (the hot rod "gasser"): not even a hundred dollars.

I am going to go vomit now. ???

[oletrux4evr]

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Good Heavens, I REMEMBER the stuff you guys are listing........ :D

[70chevyC-10]

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Shoot Ed - I'm from the Eisenhower administration - but your childhood hero was Eddie Rickenbacker -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker

mine was Gordie Howe and the Gordie Howe Hat Trick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe_hat_trick

[67prostreet]

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Here is another one for you from the NHRA. Years in review.

http://www.nhra.net/50th/index.html

[min301]

Re: What year were you born?

Biafra secedes from Nigeria (May).


Israeli and Arab forces battle; Six-Day War ends with Israel occupying Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip and West Bank (June 5). Background: Arab-Israeli Wars


Right-wing military coup deposes King Constantine II of Greece.


Communist China announces explosion of its first hydrogen bomb (June 17).


The US and USSR propose a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Background: nuclear disarmament


More History...
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
Population: 198,712,056
Life expectancy: 70.5 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 29.9
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 27.4
Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 6.8

More U.S. Statistics... Racial violence in Detroit; 7,000 National Guardsmen aid police after night of rioting. Similar outbreaks in New York City's Spanish Harlem, Rochester, N.Y., Birmingham, Ala., and New Britain, Conn. (July 23).


Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice (Oct. 2).


Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).


More History...
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $833.6 billion
Federal spending: $157.46 billion
Federal debt: $340.4 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $7,143
Consumer Price Index: 33.4
Unemployment: 3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05

More Economics...

Sports
Sports Links
Pro Football Summary

Pro Basketball Summary

Pro Baseball Summary

Super Bowl
Green Bay d. Kansas City (35-10)
World Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)
NBA Championship
Philadelphia 76ers d. SF Warriors (4-2)
Stanley Cup
Toronto d. Montreal (4-2)
Wimbledon
Women: Billie Jean King d. A. Jones (6-3 6-4)
Men: John Newcombe d. W. Bungert (6-3 6-1 6-1)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Proud Clarion
NCAA Basketball Championship
UCLA d. Dayton (79-64)
NCAA Football Champions
USC (10-1-0)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
Music: Quartet No. 3, Leon Kirchner
Drama: A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee

Oscars awarded in 1967
Academy Award, Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann, producer (Columbia)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)

1967 Emmy Awards

1967 Tony Awards

Grammys awarded in 1967
Record of the Year: "Strangers in the Night," Frank Sinatra
Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year: "Michelle," John Lennon and Paul McCartney, songwriters

Miss America: Jane Anne Jayroe (OK)

More Entertainment Awards... Events
Congress creates PBS.
Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut, spawning the popularity of special-interest and regional magazines.
Movies
The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke
Music
The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Books
Donald Barthelme, Snow White
Elizabeth Bishop, Selected Poems
Robert Bly, The Light Around the World
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
Stanley Elkin, A Bad Man
W. S. Merwin, Lice
Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Manfred Eigen (Germany), Ronald G. W. Norrish, and George Porter (both UK), for work in high-speed chemical reactions

Physics: Hans A. Bethe (US), for work on energy production of stars

Physiology or Medicine: Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald, and Ragnar Granit (all US), for work on human eye
Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel (UK) discover pulsars. Background: Astronomy
Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor (US) discover protons and neutrons to be composed of even smaller particles called quarks.
The MIRV (Multiple Indepenently Targetable Reetry Vehicle), which allows one missile to carry several nuclear warheads, is developed. Background: nuclear weapons
Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later.
Deaths
Ernesto "Che" Guevara


Spencer Tracy


Woody Guthrie


Langston Hughes


Alice B. Toklas


John Coltrane


1967-makes me feel old...

[67prostreet]

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You forgot the "Motor Trend Car of The Year" for 67' , Mercury Cougar. ;)

[DanStokes]

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KIDS!

First class stamp was $.03. Marshall Plan proposed, India and Pakistan get independence from Great Britain.

I was born early in 1947 (Jan. 28) so I was around for most of it although surprisingly I don't remember much of it.

Dan

[olbuddybob]

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Compact disk was invented as well as email. Queen Elizabeth sends her first email four years latter.

Munich Olympics

First class stamp $0.08

unemployment 5.9%

[tcbnj]

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The introductory year of "Wide Track" - 1959 ;D

would love to see a poll on this question to see where on the carjunkie bell curve I reside 8)

[Scott Liggett]

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Good Heavens, I REMEMBER the stuff you guys are listing........ :D

The problems start when the memory no longer starts.

[Turbo Regal]

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All that information and nothing on what was the top selling car that year! ???

[HEMI]

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There seems to be an obsession on other forums(NOT here)about FNG'S.
My response to them is,If you were born after 1952 you are ALL FNG'S.