Count down from 2016 with real world facts!

[chex]

1976

Stephen Wozniak & Steve Jobs found Apple Computer.

[Clarence]

1975

Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

(so that's where it was hiding!)


P.S. - Damn, I wanted to post about the 1976 Groundhog Gale that had significant impact on where I live and people still talk about it.
Also this is the first time I got to post an odd numbered year.

[chex]

1974

Then tallest building, World Trade Center, opens in NYC (110 stories).

Real fact edited in by Clarence: Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel.

Edit by chex: Holy crap, that was going to be my corrected fact!!

Edit more by Clarence: Again - I'm always right!

Yet another edit by chex: Screw you, buddy!

[Clarence]

1973

Sorry Chex... I was actually waiting for my turn to post this as it happened in April 1973. ???

"The original World Trade Center featured landmark twin towers, which opened on April 4, 1973, and were destroyed in the September 11 attacks of 2001"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center

[chex]

1972

'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

And Clarence, you're correct about the WTC. The website I originally looked at was wrong. I shall edit my post with a correct fact.

... Great Zot was born in July of this year...

Last men to walk on the moon were on the Apollo 17 mission in December of 1972

[Clarence]

1971

The world population increased by 2.1% this year; the highest it ever did in history.

P.S. - would I ever be wrong?

I was quite surprised when you posted what I was waiting to post lol

[chex]

1970

Qatar gains independence from Britain.

[Clarence]

1969

Unless you are Lloyd Christmas from Dumber and Dumber, you know what happened in this year!



(or the moon landing was filmed in a studio)

[chex]

1968

Netherlands gets color TV. (According to my flawed site, anyway.)

And Clarence, it was not filmed in a smurf studio!

[Clarence]

1967

This is the Canadian Confederation centennial which means my home country of Canada turned 100 years old!

We put silly animals on our coins to celebrate



(it's also the answer to level 23!!!)

[Froot Loop]

1966

Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center.

[LaLou]

1965
Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder – The United States Air Force 2d Air Division, United States Navy and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin a 3½-year aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam.

[Wesley]

1964

Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison appear in the film version of My Fair Lady, (As well as young Jeremy Brett, who would go on to portray Sherlock Holmes as nobody has before or since...) much to the dismay of one miss Julie Andrews, who had the role of 'Liza Dolittle on Broadway and felt snubbed by not getting the film role even though she was busy doing Sound of Music anyway.

[Clarence]

1963

The Beatles record their debut album Please Please Me in a single day at the Abbey Road Studios in London.

[Shay]

1962

The First Wal-Mart discount store is opened by by Sam Walton in Bentonville Arkansas.

[Clarence]

1961

They started building the Berlin wall!



Also my Mom was born.

Bonus: This is the last year you can flip upside down to get the same year until 6009!

[Wesley]

1960

France tests their 3rd atomic bomb in the Sahara desert, bringing them close to having a compact atom bomb on par with the other world Superpowers.

[Clarence]

1959

Alaska becomes a state and brings 49 stars to the American flag!

But people wanted an even number so they pretended Hawaii is a state in the same year to being it to a nice even 50.

This is the last time the America flag changed and remains at 50 states/ 50 stars today.

But Guam and Puerto Rico etc never became official states, probably because 51 or 52 isn't as cool.

[Vincent]

1958
Madonna was born.

[Clarence]

1957



Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is published in the United States.