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The Year I Was Born

Share what you know about the year you were born.

I wish today’s blog prompt would have been about the day I was born so I could break out into the lyrics of “Bad to the Bone”. You would have to be at least as old as I am or older to get the joke. We can’t always get what we want, lol.

The year I was born was 1980. This just so happened to be a presidential election year. Ronald Reagan was running against incumbent Jimmy Carter. The race and outcome are rather memorable. I’m not here to stir up Republicans and Democrats alike, but that was the year that Ronald Reagan won the election and would ultimately serve two terms as President of the United States.

I also know this was the year John Lennon, well known as one of the singers for The Beatles, was assassinated. This sent a shockwave through many.

The 1980s were a much simpler time. It was great to grow up then. People had more morals, sitcoms actually had a lesson, and the music sounded more like music (with some exceptions).

Drop some fun facts about your birth year in the comment section. I’d like to know.

22 responses to “The Year I Was Born”

  1. I was born on my birthday, how cool is that 😁

    1. Can’t get any better than that😂!

      1. 🤘🏼😁

  2. Let’s just say that that week we were Living on a Prayer, and the Jedi had returned. Something about Grenada and the ubiquitous Word, too.

    1. 😂LOVE IT!!!

  3. I was born in 1962 and I know that Marilyn Monroe died and there was the Cuban Missile Crisis also it was the year that our local TV station was launched

    1. Those were definitely some major happenings!

  4. Lyndon Johnson was U.S. President and dealing with fallout from the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. I’m sure something positive happened as well. 🤗

    1. Wow! That’s some major stuff!

  5. The Simpsons premiered on my actual birthday (not the Christmas special)

    1. Was this as the standalone program? I remember when it was a clip on the Tracy Ulman Show.

      1. Yep! I saw some of those clips growing up, but I’m referring specifically to the standalone program!

  6. The column on the same topic the year I was born within 1961. John F Kennedy became president in January of that year. The Berlin Wall went up and Germany Alan Shepard became the first American to go into space, p the Vietnam War escalated from a French colonial war to a major US involvement. Roger Maris had a season High home run record that surpassed Babe Ruth’s

    1. That’s some neat history! I love reading the replies to this post.

  7. I was born in the era of make-love-not-war.

    1. When I read your comment, all I could hear playing in my head was, “War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!”🎶😂

      1. Yes and strangely enough I like those old war protest songs such as Eve of Destruction.

      2. My dad listened to the radio station that played several of these songs, so I’m well acquainted. I can’t help but sing along with some of them.

    2. They had a lot of interesting expressions and expressions such as groovy and let it all hang out.

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  9. There was good music during that era. Folk music started to come about during that era too although my favorite was more of the popular and Rock genre. Some of the songs from there I remember are loved one another by the youngbloods. Turn turn Turn and Mr tambourine Man by The Byrds. Blowing in the wind by Bob Dylan. And Sally’s restaurant. There was a wild one called fish cheer by Country Joe and the fish, but I have to warn you that one has I’m asking the crowd to spell the f-bomb before performing it if you hear the live performance of it. Lay down by Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins singers who are a gospel group and some of those recordings sound good together. I liked the one I heard in the’70s. That one comes from Melanie’s experience at Woodstock. Woodstock happened at the end of my first grade year and I had no idea at the time that it even happened.

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