Were you born during a major world event?

SparkleBabe · 15/05/07 - 23:04

I was born in April 1982. During the Falklands war, the woman in the next bed to my mum in the hospital's husband was in the Army and had been sent there to fight.

All my life Ive been told 'Ohh you were born during a war'. My Auntie still tells me how she was watching a 'Falklands War Report' at the exact moment my dad phoned to tell her I'd been born. It also has aniverseries around milestone birthdays'. So when I was ten it was a huge thing, and then the 20th anniversary and so on.

God am I dreading five years!!:D

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:06

14 February 1990. Not so sure as I would have not known as I was a baby and my memory didn't kick in until 1992\3 and eve then that was very, very faint.

swingaleg · 15/05/07 - 23:07

I was born at the precise moment of a major world event.

Err...........my birth..............;)

00tommo · 15/05/07 - 23:07

I was born the day before the world's first test tube baby! Huge i know!

grotbags1975 · 15/05/07 - 23:07

th first thing appearing in google for july 1975 is the tonight show starring johnny carson - so im guessing probably no

whoever,hey · 15/05/07 - 23:09

i was born the month of elvis' death !!!!!

SteUK · 15/05/07 - 23:09

I was born on the same day as Prince Harry, so we both have exactly the same age. That's it!

System · 15/05/07 - 23:10

I was born 10 days after England won the World Cup.

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:11

Same as SparkleBabe. I was born three days after the outbreak of the Falklands War.

SparkleBabe · 15/05/07 - 23:13

afx237vi wrote: »

Same as SparkleBabe. I was born three days after the outbreak of the Falklands War.

Oooh I was born 8 days after the invasion!

My best friend in school was born on the day the Belgrano was sunk.

hugsie · 15/05/07 - 23:16

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm

Here is a good place to check

CANDYANGEL · 15/05/07 - 23:17

Heres some off wiki-I was born May 10th 1984

May 2 - The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 5 - The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 - Denis Lortie kills 3 government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
May 8 - The longest game in Major League Baseball history begins at 7:30 PM between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox. The game will be played over the course of 2 days, lasting 25 innings, with a total time of 8 hours and 6 minutes.
May 11 - Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure burns down, killing 8.
May 11 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 12 - The Louisiana World's Fair opens.
May 14 - The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.

Smeggypants · 15/05/07 - 23:17

I was born while the earth was spinning.

Wait a minute.... it still is!!!!

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:20

Oh, I forgot, I was also born on my sister's 2nd birthday. I bet that p*ssed her off

maybe · 15/05/07 - 23:21

I was born 36 hours before Marylin Monroe was found dead :eek:

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:25

I was 3 days before York Cathedral burnt down.

My son was born in the middle of the second Iraq War.

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:25

i was born the day Sino-Malay race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia took place.

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:27

swingaleg wrote: »

I was born at the precise moment of a major world event.

Err...........my birth..............;)

And there was much rejoicing in the streets of London and other places like Oop north as the Great Baby Swing was born

for me it was Kennedy Assainated, Thatcher Quit, England won RWC 2003, my date of birth obviously, not exact birth...

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:28

Were you born during a major world event?

Yes - but I'm not telling you what event!

[Deleted User] · 15/05/07 - 23:30

I was born on Easter Sunday, that's about it...

(my brother died on 11-09, but many years before)

System · 15/05/07 - 23:42

I was not born on any significnt day that I am aware of, neither were my children, but each time I have been pregnant there has been large world events or disasters:
Nov 1989: Berlin wall came down & Hillsborough.
1992: Signing of the Maastricht treaty
Sept 1994: The Estonia sunk with the loss of 852 lives.
Sept 2001: 9/11
Dec 2004: The Tsunami

swingaleg · 15/05/07 - 23:42

Up Pompey!! wrote: »

And there was much rejoicing in the streets of London and other places like Oop north as the Great Baby Swing was born

for me it was Kennedy Assainated, Thatcher Quit, England won RWC 2003, my date of birth obviously, not exact birth...

There was nothing on that site for my DOB either...........:D

girlfrommars · 15/05/07 - 23:52

My mum went into labour on August 5 1962 and I was born in the early hours of August 6 1962 the day after Marilyn Monroe died.

Caxton · 15/05/07 - 23:58

Born in the middle of World War Two. Spent many nights as a baby in an air raid shelter

[Deleted User] · 16/05/07 - 00:02

swingaleg wrote: »

There was nothing on that site for my DOB either...........:D

BUT the year was significant ....

Churchill renews 'special relationship'
Britons killed in Cairo riots
Korea truce talks hit stalemate
Test drive for TV detector vans
King George VI dies in his sleep
New Queen proclaimed for UK

[Deleted User] · 16/05/07 - 00:03

After a quick Google, on my date of birth:

Jimmi Hendrix recorded "Lover Man" Nope, I've not heard of it either!

Thora Hird became a grandmother!

and Derbyshire played Yorkshire in the Cricket Gillette Cup Final.

In more earth shattering fashion, a couple of months before I popped out man first walked on the moon and a few weeks before, Woodstock. :cool:

Hey there!

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