Adulthood Ruined Crowds and I’m Not Sorry
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What’s something you used to love that adulthood completely ruined? I used to love going places with big groups of people. Concerts. Festivals. Parties. The whole loud, chaotic, shoulder-to-shoulder experience. Back then it felt electric. Like something mi
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The Year I Was Born and Cinema Got It Right
https://ericfoltin.com/the-year-i-was-born-and-cinema-got-it-right/
Share what you know about the year you were born. I was born in 1972, which already feels like a flex. The world was a chaotic, nicotine-stained, polyester-soaked mess, and somehow that was considered progress. Gas was cheap, bell-bottoms were a real threat to public
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Calendar Pages and My Spine

https://aarya045.com/2025/12/23/calendar-pages-and-my-spine/

The Year that I was Born…

I was born in the year of 2007, a year very notable for the invention of Apple’s iPhone and the iPod touch shortly after. Mac OS X had also been updated from Tiger to Leopard in 2007, with Leopard ultimately becoming the latest version of Mac OS X that could operate on a PowerPC system, such as a later-generation iBook G4 or PowerBook G4.

1978: punk, disco, hip hop

In the year I was born, 1977, punk ruled in the UK, and in New York Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were formed and disco was over its peak.

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Punk has always spoken to me and I growing up I thought of myself as born in the punk era. I love the Clash and can enjoy sone other classic punk bands but it is more the punk mentality, towards music, but also towards other things, that spoke to me.

Even though the first hip hop record (Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”) would only be released a year later, hip hop was growing out of the underground. Hip hop culture is s similar to punk in many ways and I fell in love with it in the nineties, by mistake considered the “golden age of hip hop”.

Disco was starting to experience a backlash in 1978 as Saturday Night Fever (1977) propelled it into the mainstream and caused literally everyone to jump on the bandwagon. House music was on the horizon but nit there yet and disco never really went away.

It took me till the mid nineties to start appreciating electronic dance music , first through crossover acts like the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy. But I fell in love either way house music and if i had to choose one genre that I love the most it would be house music.

So yeah, I see the year I was born mainly through the lena of music and there was sone great music made in 1978.

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Hello, World!

Share what you know about the year you were born.

It’s my birthday in a few days, and I’m realizing that I don’t know a lot about the year I was born.

My parents say it was a good year and there was abundance. The fact that I was a post-term baby may confirm what they say.

Yes, when things are going well in a young family, there’s a likelihood of having a post-term baby.

The speculative science around this is that the baby becomes really comfortable in their internal milieu and care nothing of the world without.

I understand that I was born in the evening, or news of my birth reached home in the evening. I’m not sure.

But people were getting ready to celebrate the successful completion of the year and the welcoming of the new year.

I’m a New Year’s Eve baby! It’s like eating your cake and having it too! There’s no way to explain what I mean here to anyone.

Politically, my country was a budding sovereignty with rather poor negotiation skills and poor understanding of neocolonialism.

Luckily, I’ve been able to witness and participate in a healthy communal living which existed at the time of my birth. It’s been very helpful in shaping my reality as an immigrant.

Whatever happened in the year of my birth, I’m utterly grateful for my life and how it has unfolded thus far, and I’m totally hopeful and excited for an unknown future!

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THE YEAR IS 1958 by Veronica Smith

I was born in February 1958.  In fact, I was two weeks over-due and should have been Aquarius, born in the Chinese year of Yin Fire Rooster.  As Fate would have it, I arrived as Pisces, born in the new Chinese year of Yang Earth Dog! 

My place of birth was Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland.  In 1958, the Republic had only been in existence for thirty-odd years.  Although Southern Ireland had finally achieved independence from Britain, the British government had imposed heavy penalties on the young state and Ireland was still struggling to recover economically. 

There was so much happening politically in 1958 that you could write an entire book on the subject!  So here are just a few of the highlights.

In Africa that year, Morocco finally gained its independence from Spain. It was then able to join the Arab League, along with Tunisia. 

Meanwhile, Algeria was struggling to gain independence from France.  In fact, it caused a crisis within France, which toppled the Fourth Republic.  Emergency measures resulted in a new constitution that created the Fifth Republic and controversial General Charles De Gaule was brought out of retirement to lead the new government.  However, not everyone was happy with this out-come.  Guinea declared itself independent from France, rejecting that nation’s new constitution.   It precipitated changes in French Sudan, which gained autonomy as a self-governing member of the French colonial empire. Soon afterwards, Chad, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon also became autonomous republics within the French colonial empire.  Belgian Congo saw its last Belgian governor before independence. 

In the Middle East, there were several new alliances, hoping to bring more stability to the region. Egypt and Syria formed the United Arab Republic, which lasted from 1958 until 1961, when Syria left the Union, following the 1961 Syrian Coup d’etat. Another alliance, which took place between the Hashemite Kingdoms of Jordan and Iraq, resulted in a bloody revolution in Iraq that same year.  In Lebanon, United States Marines were called in to Beirut, to support the pro-Western government there.

Elsewhere, the world was coping with the Cold War struggle between Communism and Capitalism. On 27th March, Nikita Khrushchev became the new Premier of the Soviet Union (USSR).  Taiwan was defending itself against attacks from Communist China. Communists, led by Fidel Castro, were trying to take control in Cuban.  Trouble in South Vietnam would eventually escalate into the Vietnam War, which would involve troops from multiple Western countries. 

Although politics undoubtedly held center stage in 1958, there were many other mile-stones, particularly in technology.  I often say that I was born at the beginning of the Space Race!  Why?  Well, it was the time when the USSR were sending up their Sputnik satellites.  In response, on 29th July 1958, the US Congress formally created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which would send up rival satellites and rockets, in answer to the USSR’s space programme. 

On 11th October, American “Pioneer 1”, the second and most successful of the 3 Project Able Space Probes, became the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA.   The following month, on 18th December, the United States launched “SCORE”, the world’s first communications satellite and the next day, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcasted the first message relayed by the Score satellite. 

Not to be outdone, China initiated its own television station.  America goes one better with colour TV.  A proto-type video game is also premiered at a show in the USA.  The Australian elections are influenced by television coverage.  U.S. space scientist, James van Allen, announces the discovery of Earth’s Magnetosphere. Another American, Jack Kilby, invents the first integrated circuit, while working at Texas Instruments.  In December, Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes of Bell Laboratories, publish their paper in “Physical Review Letters”, setting out the principles of the Optical Laser.

It wasn’t just in space that countries were competing with each other!  People were still putting on a show of crossing the Arctic and Antarctic, only this time, with mechanised vehicles.  In one incident, a Soviet polar pilot on Li-2, rescued four Belgian polar explorers, who had survived a plane crash in Antarctica 250km from their base five days earlier!  On 3rd August, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus, became the first vessel to cross the North Pole under water! 

Some well-known symbols also started to appear in 1958.  For instance, the anti-nuclear Peace Symbol made its debut on 21st February 1958 (two days before my birth!) and was used by Bertrand Russell at his launch of the Campaign for Nuclear  Disarmament in the United Kingdom.  Protests were focused on the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston. 

Did you know that in 1958, for the first time, the total of transatlantic passengers carried by air exceeded the total carried by sea?  I remember those famous airlines, such as British B.O.A.C. and American Pan Am.  It is hard to believe that Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 made its first transatlantic flight in October 1958!  However, it was BOAC, who made the first commercial transatlantic flight by JET LINER (instead of turbo-prop) earlier that year!

An important mile-stone here in Europe was the inauguration of the European Economic Community (EEC) on 1st January 1958.  This body was a regional organisation, created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957, aiming to foster economic integration (including a common market and customs union) among its six member states: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany. 

It must be remembered that 1958 was only thirteen years after the end of World War Two and Europe was still recovering from the devastation caused by that war.  The hope was that such a union would not only help Europe economically but also prevent further internal wars.  In English-speaking countries, the EEC was known as the European Common Market (ECM) and lasted in various forms, from 1958 until 1993, before being absorbed into the current European Union (EU). 

In November 1958, the new UNESCO building, designed as a World Heritage Centre, was inaugurated in Paris.  I remember visiting this building with my parents, during the 1960s, while my father worked on some UN project.  I also discovered the Belgian cartoon character of Tin-Tin and his West Highland White terrier dog called “Snowy”! 

On 28th October 1958, there was a change of Popes, when John 23rd succeeded Pius 12th as the 261st Pope.  Pope John 23rd would initiate the Second Vatican Council and bring much needed reforms to the Roman Catholic church.     

How about this for a “foundation”?! On the 28th January 1958, the classic LEGO Brick was patented in Denmark! Nice to know that, 66 years later, kids (including adult kids!) are still constructing amazing creations with Lego! In fact, it has become an “art form” in itself!

In the entertainment world, the Jim Henson Company was founded as “Muppets Inc” in the United States.  1958 was also the year of birth of many well-known singers and actors, including Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Miranda Richardson, Holly Hunter, Alex Baldwin, Gary Oldman, Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Bacon, Fiona Shaw, Michael Flatley, Viggo Mortensen, Jamie Lee Curtis, …. I am in good company! 

As I said earlier, there was so much happening in 1958 that you could write a book – probably several books! – about the events of that year.  I hope that this synopsis gives you some idea of what an important turning point it was in many areas. 

My thanks to the Wikipedia website for the reference points in this article.

Author:  Veronica Smith,  first published 18th December 2024.

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I was born in 1971. One super important event occurred that year but I am going to make you wait for it. First, I Googled “events from 1971” and figured I’d share a few things that I found.

This site gave a top 10 list. Allow me to share it:

1. The New York Times begins to publish sections of the Pentagon Papers
2. The Voting Age in the United States is lowered to 18 yrs old when the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified
3. Border battles between India and Pakistan erupt into full-scale war
4. The Walt Disney World Theme Park is opened in Florida
5. The Soviet Union launches the first space station, Salyut 1, into low Earth orbit
6. Ibrox disaster in Scotland when On January 2nd 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match
7. A new stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts
8. Decimalisation in United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency.
9. Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher’s ends free school milk for children over the age of seven
10. The US table tennis team visits to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) known as “Ping Pong Diplomacy”

https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1971.html

You can click the link to get more details. Interesting stuff. Americans, you’re welcome for the 26th amendment. Also, for Disney World.

This site also gave a short list. There’s a lot of cross over, but I’ll share a few highlights.

1. The total number of American troops in Vietnam dropped to 196,700, the lowest amount since January 1966. On the other hand, the number of British troops stationed in Northern Ireland increased to 11,000.
2. The Supreme Court “unanimously upheld the constitutionality of busing as a means to ‘dismantle the dual school system,’ of the South.”
3. Charles Manson, along with three of his female followers, were convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders.
4. Here are some sports facts from 1971: The Pittsburgh Pirates won their 4th World Series, the Baltimore Colts were the Super Bowl champs, and the Montreal Canadiens clinched the Stanley Cup.
5. Satchel Paige became the first African-American MLB player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
6. The first Starbucks opened at the historic Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. The coffeehouse chain was founded by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker, and Zev Siegl, who later sold the company to Howard Schultz. Today, Starbucks has 32,938 retail locations worldwide.
7. The South Tower of the World Trade Center “topped out at 1,362 feet, making it the second tallest building in the world.”
8. In 1971, Amanda Holden, Corey Haim, Denise Richards, Justin Trudeau, Lance Armstrong, Mark Wahlberg, and Ricky Martin were all born.

Yup, my birth year sent Charles Manson to jail for what turned out to be the rest of his psychotic life.

So what is that one huge event that I teased at the start of this post? It’s mega. It’s universe altering.

In July of 1971, Rick Wakeman joined Yes. By the end of 1972 the universe had been granted the musical masterpieces that are the albums Fragile and Close to the Edge.

You’re welcome.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2023/12/23/1971/

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Share what you know about the year you were born.

I mean it’s 1980 !

Wa had no internet

when the grass was greener

life was beautiful with no end

3 million six hundred and twelve human were born

Globally

In 1980, several notable events occurred globally. Some highlights include the eruption of Mount St. Helens in the United States, the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War, the establishment of Solidarity in Poland, and the Summer Olympics held in Moscow, which faced a boycott by several countries.

Holy Innocents Day, observed annually on December 28th. The day commemorates the execution of the innocent, male children in Bethlehem as told in Matthew 2:16.

It was a dynamic year with significant developments across various domains.

No matter what I know about 1980 can not be rewind or relived but am sure of 1 of these humans born that year will change the face of the plant and make it greener again .

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