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1945. We won the war.

1977. Elvis died. Bing Crosby died. Carter pardoned the Vietnam draft evaders..........

1947

• Australia's best lookin' baby born, will be known as Spike.

• Britain nationalizes coal mines (Jan. 1).
• Peace treaties for Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland signed in Paris (Feb. 10).
• Soviet Union rejects US plan for UN atomic-energy control (March 4).
• Marshall Plan proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II (June).
• India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain (Aug. 15).
• The Dead Sea Scrolls are discovered at Qumran.

1981 - a crapload of people were either assassinated or were wounded as a result of an assassination attempt.
AIDS is first identified
Ghana has a coup.
MTV is born (the end of Western culture)

Eventful year.

Gorbachev took over 4 days before I was born.

After seeing the KGB headquarters and gas chamber in Vilnius, I'm quite glad that the Cold War ended so soon after I was born.

Modern-day terrorists don't scare me - I have an exponentially higher chance of dying by a car, or of heart disease than ever being in a terror attack. It must have been REALLY scary knowing those psychos had nukes aimed at you for half a century!

1942
Nazi leaders attend the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "final solution to the Jewish question," the systematic genocide of Jews known as the Holocaust.

Declaration of United Nations is signed in Washington.

More than 120,000 Japanese and persons of Japanese ancestry living in western U.S. moved to "relocation centers," some for the duration of the war (Executive Order 9066).
Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston kills 491. Background: Fires and Explosions
Women's military services established.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, first health maintenance organization (HMO), begins in Oakland, Calif.

The first safe self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is accomplished by Erico Fermi, Edward Teller and Leo Szilard at the University of Chicago.
Harvard University chemist Louis F. Fieser invents napalm, a jelly-like mixture of gasoline and palm oils that sticks to its target until it burns out.
Radar comes into operational use.
The U.S. government establishes the Manhattan Project, led by Robert Oppenheimer, to coordinate ongoing American efforts to design and build the atomic bomb.

1987....

• William Buckley, American hostage in Lebanon, reported slain (Jan. 20).
• Iraqi missiles kill 37 in attack on US frigate Stark in Persian Gulf (May 17); Iraqi president Hussein apologizes (May 18).
• Prime Minister Thatcher wins rare third term in Britain (June 11).
• Klaus Barbie, 73, Gestapo wartime chief in Lyon, sentenced to life by French court for war crimes (July 4).

Sounds like 1987 was not a good year.

1971 Jim Morrison dies in Paris at age 27.

Intel introduces the microprocessor.

Academy Award, Best Picture: Patton.

Twenty-sixth Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18.

1935. Same birthday year as Elvis. He got famous before me (I am a great fan except for most of the films) but he has left the building, whereas I am still rocking hard. When I was first in LA Hank Williams was the big noise.