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Fun Game: Guess the Year We Were Born...

posted 6 years ago by Retromogul (1082)
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Going by a list of 3-5 events that occured in that year. Please try not to just Google. When giving your answer please state what events brought you to your answer. I'll start.

1. Mikhail Gorbachev sworn in as General Secretary of the Communist Party in the USSR.

2. Ronald Reagan begins his second term.

3. The Greenpeace vessel "Rainbow Warrior" is bombed and sunk by French agents.

4. Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise millions for famine relief.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

'85

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Well done. You win an imaginary prize. Which event or events tipped you off?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I was pretty sure live aid was '85...but Reagan was re-elected in '84...so in January of '85
He would have begun his second term👍

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Yep totally.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

This is a pretty fun idea...good thread👍

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Thanks :) I'll keep bumping it until more people play haha.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I'm going to put mine up...but I'm too tired and stoned right now👍

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Still stoned? ;)

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

😂 a!ways...but I'm getting there. I'm so old I have to Google events😉

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

That happens ;) I had to google for more than 3 events.

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Was the mobster killed in either a barbershop or in front of a steakhouse?

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Well I'm stumped. Any other oblique events that occured in the year that you were born? ;)

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Okay I'm gonna guess you were born in 1985 during the same hour that John Gotti had his boss whacked - who's name escapes me. Also forgot the month and date.

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

So where was I initially even close when I asked whatever this mobster was murdered in a barbershop or a steakhouse? The former was Albert Anastasia who was murdered in 1957...

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Didn't think so given you call yourself Flattop. You wanna offer anymore clues?

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Maybe if you're only looking for attention...

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Carmine Galante - 1979 ?

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

👍

[–] FlatTop (0) 6 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

They say Richard Kuklinski done it. ???

[–] sslssg (34334) 6 years ago

1972?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Start of Beatlemania
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I have a dream" speech
President John F Kennedy assassinated

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

I'll take born in 1963 for 100.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

you would be correct.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

1. U.S president, Bill Clinton ordered an airstrike in Iraq. UNSCOM withdrew all weapons from the country.

2. Google was founded in Menlo Park, California.

3. I had my first birthday!

4. The Kosovo war was started in the former Yugoslavia

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

That would be 1998

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Well done! I'm just going to assume you didn't cheat.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

No no, I remember 98 very well. The 'year of the fear' as I will always call it.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

The cast and crew were scared of Oliver Reed in this production that year.

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Ha wasn't that the case for every one of his films?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yep 😂

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

LOL. Okay what else happened that year? Remember you can leave as many as 5 clues.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Price of Men's leather sandals - 93p

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Oh man...Haha. Okay how about naming a movie or a TV show that debuted that year?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

There was a lot of pea soup in Georgetown that year.

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Good clue. That would be 1973 - the year of The Exorcist for 10000 thanks.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

👍

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

1. The Pittsburgh Steelers win their fourth National Football League championship in six seasons, defeating the Los Angeles Rams 31–19 in the Super Bowl.
2. Global eradication of smallpox certified by the World Health Organization.
3. The first 24-hour news channel, Cable News Network (CNN) is launched.
4. In Major League Baseball, The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League defeat the Kansas City Royals of the American League, 4–1, in Game Six of the World Series to win the championship.
5. musician John Lennon is murdered outside the Dakota by Mark David Chapman.

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

That would be 1980. Very good. Only John Lennon tipped me off.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

You are correct!

[–] HollyGoLightly2013 (331) 6 years ago

1) Ronald Reagan begins his first term as President
2) Prince Charles and Princess Diana Marry
3) "Hillstreet Blues" premieres on TV

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

That be 1981 ;) Going by the first two. And thanks for playing!

[–] HollyGoLightly2013 (331) 6 years ago

Retromogul you are correct! :)

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I was born in the year that would be considered the last year President Nixon could have enjoyed the job of commander and chief

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

I know it but I want to give someone else a shot.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I dig that👍 I got more clues...I'll bump the thread if it goes stale👍

[–] Retromogul (1082) 6 years ago

Sounds good!

[–] HollyGoLightly2013 (331) 6 years ago

1971?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yeah👍

[–] HollyGoLightly2013 (331) 6 years ago

Yea!! I Googled what year Watergate happened. ;)

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I would go with 1972 - he won a landslide election in November 1972 and Watergate wasn't on the radar and gas was still cheap.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Maybe I should have said full year...