The world at your birth

[2952-0-0]

List major events that happened up to a month before and a month after you were born. I'll start, since it's one of the most important in the 20th century.

Hungary declares itself a Republic.
23 people are killed when a petrochemical plant in Texas explodes.
The first African Americans are elected governor or Virginia and NYC mayor.
The East German leadership resigns, and two days later the Berlin Wall falls.
Next day the Bulgarian Communist leader resigns.
Brazil holds the first democratic election since 1960.
Six priests are killed by El Salvadoran troops.
South Africa officially abolishes its Separate but Equal law.
Student protests begin in Czechoslovakia.
The Lebanese President is killed by a bomb.
The Czechoslovak and East German Communist Parties agrees to give up power.
Bush and Gorbachev announce that the Cold War was coming to a close.
14 women are killed in the Montreal École Polytechnique massacre.
Chile holds its first democratic elections since Pinochet took power.
In Romania, Ceausescu is overthrown. He would later be executed by kangaroo court.
The first episode of The Simpsons is broadcast.

[ilikeverin]

1990

July 16 – An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.
July 25 – George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
July 25 – The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.
July 26 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
July 27 – The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister, A.N.R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
July 27 – Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR.
July 28 – Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
July 30 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills British M.P. Ian Gow, a staunch unionist.
August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
August 6 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
August 16 – I'm born.
August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.
August 24 – Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
August 28 – Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) struck the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, in Illinois, killing 29 people. Strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area
September 2 – Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
September 9 – Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.
September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
September 12 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

I think August 2 is a wee bit important

[Hash]

    * June 1 - Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
    * June 1 - Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
    * June 3 - Four nuclear missiles are launched into the Pacific Ocean.
    * June 8 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    * June 15 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's spelling of the word potato, indicating it should have an e at the end.
    * June 17 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II).
    * June 20 - In Estonia, kroon replaces Soviet ruble.
    * June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
    * June 22 - Briana Michelle Bowman was born.
    * June 23 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2.
    * June 26 - Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
    * June 28 - A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes Landers, California, followed by a magnitude 6.4 aftershock 8km south-east of Big Bear Lake, California.
    * June 28 - Estonia holds a referendum on its constitution.
    * June 29 - A bodyguard assassinates President Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria.
    * June 30 - Retired general and Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos is sworn in as the 12th President of the Philippines, having won elections held the previous month.
    * July 6-July 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
    * July 10 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
    * July 16 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is nominated for U.S. President and Tennessee Senator Al Gore for Vice President, at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
    * July 20 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
    * July 22 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.
    * July 25 - August 9 - The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Spain.
    * July 31 - The ex-Soviet Republic of Georgia becomes the 179th member of the United Nations.
    * August 10 - The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
    * August 11 - The largest shopping mall in the US, Minnesota's Mall of America is constructed on 78 acres (316,000 m²).
    * August 20 - Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
    * August 20 - The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
    * August 21 - August 22 - Events at Ruby Ridge, Idaho are sparked by a Federal Marshal surveillance team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
    * August 24 - August 28 - Hurricane Andrew hits south Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed.

[Josh/Devilman88]

1988

May
   
May 4 - PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
May 14 - Bus collision near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY 30 years prior.
May 14 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1–0 at Wembley. The southwest Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies including 17 league titles.
May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
May 16 - A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16 - California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
May 31 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.

June
   
June 5 - The first National Cancer Survivors Day is held.
June 6 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom strips jockey Lester Piggott of his Order of the British Empire following his jailing for tax irregularities.
June 11 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
June 11 - Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
June 25 - The Netherlands defeats the Soviet Union 2–0 to win Euro 88.
June 28 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later).
June 29 - Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.

July

July 3 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.
July 6 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and two rescue mariners.
July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record.
July 14 - Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
July 20 - The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U.S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.
July 31 - Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.

August
   
Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini the leader of Pakistani Shia muslims was killed in Peshawar.
August 5 - The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
August 6 – August 7 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action which took place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.
August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
August 17 - The Pakistani president, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
August 18 - The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates George H.W. Bush for President and James "Dan" Quayle for Vice President of the United States of America.
August 19 - A truce begins in the Iran-Iraq war.
August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
August 25 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.
August 26 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.
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The Ramstein airshow disaster at the moment of impact.August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and three-hundred and forty-six injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

[Hatman 🍁]

1986

    * July 23 - In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
    * July 27 - Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France.
    * July 28 - Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London.
  * August 6 - A low pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (12.9 in) of rain in a day on Sydney.
    * August 6 - In Louisville, Kentucky, William J. Schroeder, the second person to receive an artificial heart, dies after 620 days.
    * August 6 - Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.
    * August 19 - Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.
    * August 20 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.
    * August 21 - The Lake Nyos disaster occurs, killing nearly 2,000 people.
    * August 31 - The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.
    * August 31 - Aeroméxico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground.
    * August 31 - The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It will wander the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo.
  * September 5 - Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by 4 armed men of the Abu Nidal organization.
    * September 6 - In Istanbul, 2 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the Neve Shalom synagogue during Sabbath services.
    * September 7 - Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.
    * September 7 - Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of his bodyguards are killed.
    * September 13 - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks the city of Kalamata in southern Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying one fifth of the city

[Filuwaúrdjan]

That Wicked Witch was still in power.

[NDN]

That Wicked Witch was still in power.

So was Bonzo.

[Boris]

I hate reading these Wikipedia year descriptions because they're all so morbid.

[Sam Spade]

23 people are killed when a petrochemical plant in Texas explodes.

Please, that happens at least once every year.  No biggie.

[Sam Spade]

I'm lazy, so I'll just go on the Wiki (whether its actually true or not)

- Mobster Henry Hill busted on drug possession.
- A Miami, Florida court acquits 4 White police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a Black insurance executive, provoking 3 days of race riots.
- On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
- Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
- Quebec referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released.
- Pac-Man is released, the best-selling Arcade game of all time.
- The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
- The New York Islanders win their first Stanley Cup, from a goal by Bobby Nystrom in overtime of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs's final round.
- Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
- John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
- In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.
- Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin; the first major news story for CNN.
- The Cable News Network (CNN) is officially launched.
- In Los Angeles, comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
- A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and injuring over 250.
- U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy wins several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday', but not enough to overtake President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party nomination.
- Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, which says in part: 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!'[1]
- A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.
- Iraqi security forces shoot dead 3 gunmen who attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers are killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling.
- Augusta AVA became the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
- West Germany beats Belgium 2-1 to win the Euro 80.
- Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indira Gandhi, dies in an air crash.
- A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.
- A McDonnell Douglas DC-9 belonging to the Italian Airline Itavia crashes into the sea near Palermo after an explosion occurs in the air; 81 people die. A bomb or a missile is suspected to be the cause of the accident but no culprits are ever found.
- U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771 requiring 19- and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
- Vigdis Finnbogadottir is elected president of Iceland.
- Pope John Paul II visits Brazil; 7 people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.
- Alexandra Palace in London destroyed by fire.

[MasterJedi]

September 1987
Pat Robertson announces his candidacy for President.

October 1987 (Born on the 14th)
Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for President
First National Coming Out Day along with
Jessicua McClure falls down a well (Why was this news? )
Great Storm of '87
Black Monday
US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf
Robert Bork's nomination for the Supreme Court is rejected

November 1987
Enniskillen bombing

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

    * November 2 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
    * November 2 - Able Archer 83 began, a NATO exercise that many Soviet officials misinterpreted as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.
    * November 3 - The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
    * November 5 - The Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident off the coast of Norway. Five divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
    * November 11 - Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the Diet, Japan's national legislature.
    * November 13 - The first United States cruise missiles arrive at Greenham Common Airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
    * November 15 - The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
    * November 16 - A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
    * November 17 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
    * November 19 - An attampted hijacking of the Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.
    * November 24 - Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988).
    * November 26 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
    * November 27 - A Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport of Madrid, Spain killing 181 of the 192 on board.
    * November 29 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Afghanistan.
    * December 2 - Michael Jackson's world famous music video for "Thriller" is broadcast for the first time. It will become the most often repeated and famous music video of all time and increase his own popularity and the record sales of the album "Thriller".
    * December 5 - ICIMOD established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
    * December 7 - Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport killing 90.
    * December 9 - The Australian Dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
    * December 10 - Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina.
    * December 11 - Grêmio (Brazil) becomes the new soccer world champion, after beating Hamburger SV (Germany) by 2-1.
    * December 13 - The Denver Nuggets and the visiting Detroit Pistons combine for an NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple overtime, 186-184.
    * December 17 - A discotheque fire in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
    * December 17 - A Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
    * December 27 - A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York kills five firefighters and two civilians.
    * December 29 - The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity after being shot down over the country on a reconnaissance mission.
    * December 31 - Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom.
    * December 31 - Two bombs explode in France. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

[MODU]

First day - Let there be light
Second day - Heaven and earth
Third day - land and sea
fourth day - sun and stars
fifth day - citters
sixth day - animals
seventh day - Kegger down by the river!!!

[Хahar 🤔]

My birthday bolded, important stuff underlined:

October 5 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin Heights, Quebec.
October 5 – UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers' Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on October 5, 1966.
October 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the UN Security Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
October 12 – NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
October 15 – After 3 years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Aristide returns to his country.
October 15 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
October 29 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over 2 dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill President Bill Clinton.
October 31 – An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 64 passengers.
October 31 – The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in Israel, where his late mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazis in Athens, during World War II
November 4 – San Francisco: The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens. Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media.
November 4 – Sydney's third runway opens, ensuring protests about noise levels.
November 5 – A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.
November 5 – George Foreman wins the WBA and IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
November 5 – Johan Heyns, an influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of Apartheid, is assassinated.
November 7 - WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
November 8 – Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
November 13 – Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
November 13 – The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel.
November 16 – A Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to illegal aliens.
November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a referendum.

[Јas]

October 12 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) kills five people in a bomb attack at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Conservative Party conference in an attempt to assassinate the British Cabinet.
October 20 - Andrew Trimble (international rugby player) born.
October 27 - Kelly Osbourne born.
October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards . Riots soon break out in New Delhi, and some 2,700 Sikhs are killed. Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.   
November 2 - Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
November 4 - Dell Computers was founded as PC's Limited.
November 5 - Jas born.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
November 9 - Delta Goodrem (Australian actress and singer) born.
November 22 - Scarlett Johansson (American actress) born.
November 25 - Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid, and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas", in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
December 2 - Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
December 3 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

[JSojourner]

1965



Jan. 4        U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union Address.

Jan. 24     Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90, as the result of a stroke he suffered on January 15.

Feb. 7      The U.S. begins the regular bombing of North Vietnamese towns and villages

Feb. 15    A new red and white maple leaf design is inaugurated as the flag of Canada, replacing the Union Flag and the Canadian Red Ensign.

Feb 21     Malcolm X is assassinated on the first day of National Brotherhood Week, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, allegedly by Black Muslims.

Mar. 7  Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama: Some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 civil rights demonstrators.

Mar. 8  3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam.

Mar. 9   The second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. White supremacists beat up white Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma.

Mar. 11   White Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb, beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama on March 9 following the second march from Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mar 17   In response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Johnson sends a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It will be passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by President Johnson Aug. 6.

Mar. 24  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organizes the first teach-in against the Vietnam War, with 2,500 participants, at the University of Michigan.

Apr. 11   The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: An estimated 51 tornadoes (47 confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.

Apr. 28    U.S. troops are sent to the Dominican Republic by President Lyndon B. Johnson, "for the stated purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and preventing an alleged Communist takeover of the country", thus thwarting the possibility of "another Cuba".

May 5  The first draft card burnings take place at the University of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the Berkeley Draft Board.

July 25    Bob Dylan elicits controversy among folk purists by "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival.

July 28  Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000, and to double the number of men drafted per month from 17,000 to 35,000.

Jily 30  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

Aug 6  U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

Aug 11  The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California.

Aug 15  The Beatles performed the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing at Shea Stadium in New York

Sep 9  Hurricane Betsy roars ashore near New Orleans, Louisiana with winds of 145 MPH, causing 76 deaths and $1.42 billion in damage. The storm is the first hurricane to cause $1 billion in unadjusted damages, giving it the nickname "Billion Dollar Betsy". It will be the last major hurricane to strike New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina 40 years later.

Oct 28  Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.

             In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed.

Nov 9  Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and portions of NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13½ hours.

Dec 9  A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition.

[afleitch]

Dec 9  A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition.

Despite all the events that happened around that time, there is something quite touching about that

[JSojourner]

Dec 9  A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition.

Despite all the events that happened around that time, there is something quite touching about that

Absolutely.  It's a perfectly ironic juxtapositioning of the sacred and the sickening.  '65 was such a terrible year -- I only listed about a third of the bad stuff.

[MODU]

Dec 9  A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition.

Despite all the events that happened around that time, there is something quite touching about that

Absolutely.  It's a perfectly ironic juxtapositioning of the sacred and the sickening.  '65 was such a terrible year -- I only listed about a third of the bad stuff.

That year, and the few following, probably could have been described as our second civil war.  Fortunately it has long since passed.

[tik 🪀✨]

1986

May 16 - The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
May 25 - Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.
May 25 - Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsized Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.
May 26 - The European Community adopts the European flag.
June 4 - Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
June 8 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
June 9 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
July 5 - The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishing.
July 7 - Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers executed in Malaysia.
July 28 - Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London.

blah la la

[Хahar 🤔]

May 25 - Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsized Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.

That's not special. It happens all the time.

[tik 🪀✨]

May 25 - Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsized Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.

That's not special. It happens all the time.

you make my face leak

[phk]

1990

July 16 – An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.
July 25 – George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
July 25 – The Serbian Democratic Party declares the sovereignty of the Serbs in Croatia.
July 26 – U.S. President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.
July 27 – The parliament building and a government television house in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago are stormed by the Jamaat al Muslimeen in a coup d'état attempt which lasts 5 days. Approximately 26 to 30 people are killed and several wounded (including then Prime Minister, A.N.R. Robinson, who is shot in the leg).
July 27 – Belarus declares its sovereignty, a key step toward independence from the USSR.
July 28 – Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru.
July 30 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army car bomb kills British M.P. Ian Gow, a staunch unionist.
August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
August 6 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
August 16 – I'm born.
August 19 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
August 23 – East Germany and West Germany announce they will unite on October 3.
August 24 – Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
August 28 – Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) struck the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, in Illinois, killing 29 people. Strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area
September 2 – Transnistria declares its independence from the Moldavian SSR; however, the declaration is not recognized by any government.
September 9 – Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.
September 11 – Gulf War: President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.
September 12 – The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.

I think August 2 is a wee bit important

August 2, 1990 is my first political memory.

[dead0man]

April 28 - Six Irishmen, including Joe Cahill, are arrested by the Irish Naval Service off County Waterford on board a coaster carrying five tons of weapons destined for the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
         
April 30 - Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aids H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.   

May 1 - An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the United Kingdom stopped work in support of a Trade Union Congress "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy.

May 3 - The Sears Tower in Chicago is finished, becoming the world's tallest building.   

May 8 -Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.            
The British House of Commons votes to abolish capital punishment in Northern Ireland.

May 17 - Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.

May 19 - Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes.
dead0man born
            
June 1 - The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
      
June 4 - A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.

June 9 - Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.

June 16 - U.S. President Richard Nixon begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.

[CultureKing]

September

September 5 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park in his first televised speech to the nation.
September 6 - The South African general election (the last under apartheid) returns the National Party with a much-reduced majority.
September 6 - England holds Sweden to a 0–0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher sustained a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher's white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood.
September 10 - The Hungarian government opens the country's western borders to refugees from the German Democratic Republic.
September 14 - Agreement of cooperation between Leningrad oblast (Russia) and NordlandCounty (Norway) is signed in Leningrad, by the chairmen Lev Kojkolainen and Sigbjørn Eriksen
September 20 - F. W. de Klerk was sworn in as State President of South Africa.
September 21 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing $7 billion in damage.
September 22 - Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, United Kingdom, leaving 11 dead and 22 injured.

October

October 2 - I am born!
October 5 - U.S. televangelist John Nunes is found guilty of embezzling $158 million.
October 9 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
October 9 - In Leipzig, East Germany, protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
October 13 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26 most likely after the junk bond market collapsed. This mini-crash became known as the Friday the 13th mini-crash.
October 17 - The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland region of Northern California, killing 63.
October 18 - The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems.
October 19 - The Guildford Four are freed after 14 years.
October 19- The Wonders of Life pavilion opens at Epcot
October 21 - The Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations issue the Langkawi Declaration on the Environment, making environmental sustainability one of the Commonwealth's main priorities.
October 23 - The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös (replacing the Hungarian People's Republic).
October 23 - Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas killed 23 and injured 314 others.
October 30 - The qualification for the 1990 Football World Cup ends.

November
November 2 - North Dakota and South Dakota celebrate their One Hundredth Birthdays.


Obviously the last one is the most important.