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List a notable event of any sort to see if people can recall the year it happened without looking it up. If a guess is incorrect, another poster can supply the correct answer later along with a new event to guess.

The movie "Jaws" was released.
 
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1975--remember it well Smile
 
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I'm winging it on the rules of this game, but I guess it's your turn to list an event to guess. Big Grin
 
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The "Amazin'" Mets win their first World Series.
 
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I KNOW this...1969...not sure on the actual date, I'm guessing September or October.

Elvis first appears on Ed Sullivan


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As old as me 1956!
Harder one what year did Elvis set foot in the UK? (Trick question) Wink


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Tick, hmmm? Did it happen while he served in the Army, perhaps in 1959?

Paul McCartney is arrested for possession of marijuana in Japan


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I'd say around 1982

Larry Bird joins the Boston Celtics.
 
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Bird joins Celtics in 1979

(McCartney arrested on January 16, 1980)

The Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash.


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around my birth year--1960..

Patty Hearst is abducted by the SLA.
 
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Oooh, I remember it was right around my mom and dad's anniversary party...it had to be February and I'm going to guess 73? I think I was about 5 or 6.

Release if the American hostages from Iran.


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Right after Reagan took office - 1981

(music died on 2/3/59)

The year Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated


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1968

First Man on Moon


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what year did Elvis set foot in the UK?

Fuse it was March 3rd, 1960, that Elvis "visited" Britain(Scotland) was a stopover for 2 hours en route to the States while in the Military...


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First Man on Moon

1969

First episode of "Dallas"
 
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1978
Last episode of Startrek with William Shatner


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1979

Kellogg's Frosted Flakes are first introduced


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maybe 1955?

Frank Sinatra passes away.
 
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About 1997 ?
Titanic sinks


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1912

"Three's Company" premieres
 
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