Count To Infinity

[taker]

1968: Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot and murdered in the Democratic Convention in LA, CA. Also Malcom X is shot and killed, Vietnaum excalates.

[Guest Zimarah]

1969: First man on the moon. (July 20)

[taker]

1970: National Guard Opens Fire Killing Four Students At Kent State University 

[Guest Zimarah]

1971: Walt Disney World opens. (Oct. 1)

[Nanaea]

1972: I was born, (July 24). Carole King won Record, Album and Song of the Year (It's too late, Tapestry, and You've Got a Friend respectively).

[Guest Zimarah]

1973: Pink Floyd released "The Dark Side of the Moon".

[taker]

1974: August 8. President Richard Nixon resides after getting impeached for the Watergate Schandel.

[Guest Zimarah]

1975: American television network NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live (Oct. 11)

[dazzledfirestar]

1976: Montreal, Quebec, Canada hosts the Summer Olympic Games

[Guest Zimarah]

1977: Star Wars opens in cinemas (later renamed as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope). (May 25)

[taker]

1978: Pope Paul VI dies, Albino Cardinal Luciani succeeds Pope Paul VI as Pope John Paul. Then Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy, Cardinal Karol Wojty©©a becomes Pope John Paul II.

[Guest Zimarah]

1979: Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

[dazzledfirestar]

1980- Mt. Saint Helens erupts, killing 60 people. John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman.

[taker]

1981: January 19 - United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity

January 20 - President-elect Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter as President of the United States of America. Minutes after Reagan becomes president, Iran releases 52 American hostages that had been held captive for 444 days - Iran hostage crisis ends.

[Guest Zimarah]

1982: I am born!

Also, Time Magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, a computer.

[dazzledfirestar]

(oh.... taker got my year... )

1983- More than 125 million viewers tune in to the last episode of M*A*S*H.

[Guest Zimarah]

1984: The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.

[dazzledfirestar]

1985: The Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup against the Philadelphia Flyers (four games to one)

(how sad is it that I didn't have to look that up... )

[Guest Zimarah]

(Nah, hockey stats are good to know.)

1986: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing its crew of six astronauts and the schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

[taker]

Zmarah got my year >_<

1987: R. Budd Dwyer, Treasurer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, shoots and kills himself at a press conference after being found guilty on charges of bribery, fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering.

[Nanaea]

1988: US & Canada reach a free trade agreement.

[taker]

1989: President George H.W. Bush takes office and Ted Bundy is executed in Florida.

[Guest Zimarah]

1990: The Super Famicom (aka Super Nintendo) is released in Japan

[taker]

1991: Gulf War begins and ends.

[dazzledfirestar]

1992- Nirvana's Nevermind hits #1 on the Billboard Top 100, knocking Micheal Jackson from the top spot.