What Happened On The Year You Were Born?

[kianniamh]

1971 a sad year for music, we lost hendrix, joplin and morrisson.

Hendrix and Joplin died in 1970

[pk.evolved]

Hmm looks like I'm the only youngster here.

• The Gulf war begins after Saddam Hussein accuses Kuwait of stealing oil from Iraq. Iraq invades Kuwait and the US send half a million soldiers to defend Saudi Arabia against invasion.
• South African antiapartheid activist, Nelson Mandela is freed after spending 27 years as a political prisoner.

[azzahra]

when I was born....my father not besides my mother because he work on another island...but the day after he came....I think that's the important for me...father...

[Wolfpack]

Nothing to brag about

[N8Parks]

When I was born, Death Valley just had a runny nose and an occasional cough.

[zaphodbb]

the kaiser died ... nobody told me he was ill.