What was in the news the day you were born?

Question

What was in the news the day you were born?

Answer 1

Prettiest baby in the world born today in ______ county.

Answer 2

well, i couldnt read then, and I cant ask my parents because im sure they were in the hospital all day paying attention to me, not the tv :)

Answer 3

NOT THAT DIFFERENT

(1) Possibility of flood and famine in China; (2) violence in the middle East; (3) defense cutbacks in England;  (4) Canada worried about economic domination by the US; and (5) a presidential assasination in Guatemala.

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Flood & Famine

Behind the great arc that stretches from Shantung province on the Yellow Sea to the southern coast of Kwangtung province on the Gulf of Tonkin, the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies—flood and famine.

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R.A.F. to the Rescue

British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd faced the House of Commons with an air at once portentous and embarrassed: for the second time in a year British armed forces were on the shooting move in the Middle East. At the request of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, he said. British forces were being called upon to help put down a revolt in the desert.

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New Tartans, New Tunes

Ever since Defense Minister Duncan Sandys announced his radical decision last April to cut Britain's army almost in half, London's bleak, grey War Office has gone almost on a wartime footing of late nights and worried councils, to determine which of the nation's famed regiments should be spared and which must go.

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Prairie Lawyer

On a screened porch in the residence of the U.S. ambassador in green and summery Ottawa, two tall, greying men stood elbow to elbow one evening last week, each intent upon the other. While cocktail-party chatter echoed in other rooms, John George Diefenbaker, the Prime Minister of Canada, talked, gestured, sipped from a glass of orange juice. John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State, cradled a rye highball in his hand as he nodded, smiled, listened. Thus casually, top officials of the world's two most neighborly nations began to explore the subtle new relationship that must come about. Reason: Canada, in an upset election, has chosen a Tory government that is worried about the possibility of U.S. economic domination over Canada.

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Fighter's End

President Carlos Castillo Armas and his wife were to dine alone one night last week in the block-long Presidential Palace in Guatemala City. Not even one of the wiry President's military aides was present as the couple strolled arm in arm down the long, wide hallway from their bedroom apartment to the dining room. Only the crack Presidential Guards stood duty in the series of archways that led to the courtyard gardens. As the couple passed by, one sentry, a stocky half-Indian named Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, snapped his heels together at attention, slapped his rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once.

Answer 4

the most gorgeous baby was born today

and showed me

so that was in the news the day i was born :]

Answer 5

Government lies and Propaganda same as today but not as bad as today.

Answer 6

Dunno I couldn't read then.

Answer 7

no idea

Answer 8

i cannot remember i was only a baby

Answer 9

I was the only and youngest of three who was born at home.

I was born at just before 1.00pm on the Saturday and it was an hour before the mens final at Wimbledon.

My mother and Nurse Hart got me settled down at an hour old so they could sit together and watch the Hungarian Drobny win the championship!

It was 54 years ago tomorrow!

Answer 10

The Second World War!

And it was in the news every day from 1939 to 1945.

And it wasn't in some far off country, it was right here in the UK and people died almost every day.

Answer 11

well it would have been a bit difficult to pick up a paper and have a look.

Answer 12

Moon landing week in July 69.

Also Chappaquiddick.  I'm not sure of the spelling/however, something about Teddies still smelling!

P.S.

No offence:  However, I'm not going to give the exact day on a public forum.  Just in case.  You never know.