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Brickset Bonus Ball Birthday Bonanza (my birthday not Brickset's)
Welcome all to the bonus ball weekly draw.
This week is my <cough> 50th Birthday so it will be a special prize this week.
As usual just answer the question to get a number allocated to you. The first 59 answers get a number that corresponds to the UK national lottery bonus ball. If you number comes up on January the 7th's draw then you are a winner, well you are all winners in my eyes, apart from
@Legoboy (far too busy looking at alerts on his watch) and
@SumoLego (late to the party again no doubt)
So the question this week is tell me something interesting about the year you were born.
Mine is - The first ATM cash dispenser was used, which didn't use cards but instead used paper cheques laced with radioactive substance carbon-14 (aka radiocarbon) which the machine detected and matched to four digit pin.
Good luck all.
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Thanks Bendy. Trying to work, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
happy birthday :)
The first DeLorean DMC-12, later immortalised in the film Back to the Future, is produced in Northern Ireland
The first London marathon is held
Rupert Murdoch buys The Times and The Sunday Times
Raiders of the Lost Ark opens in the US
John McEnroe launches a tirade at the umpire in his first round match at Wimbledon, shouting "You cannot be serious!" (He later goes on to win the championship)
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer get married at St Paul's CathedralMTV starts broadcasting in the US
Buckingham Palace announces the Princess of Wales's pregnancy. Prince William would be born in June 1982
Britain hit by 105 tornadoes in a single night
Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released.
Drinking from one of these:
The US launched its first satellite, the Explorer 1.
The modern LEGO brick design was patented on January 28th.....and it took me 50 some years to discover it's joys. Better late than never.
Happy Birthday.
Apparently 'Pong' the video game was first released on the Atari and The Godfather came out in the Cinema (or picture house) in the year I was hatched.
(I had to look these up as I wasn't paying much attention at the time). ;)
- China and the US resume diplomatic relations
- The Pol Pot regime collapses
- Sid Vicious dies
- Sino-Vietnamese War
- Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles
- First public demonstration of the compact disc
- Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty
- Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK's first female prime minister
- Nine Days That Changed the World
- SALT II agreement signed
- The Sony Walkman goes on sale
- Lord Mountbatten is assassinated
- Jacques Mesrine is killed by police
- Start of the Iran hostage crisis
- Pink Floyd releases The Wall
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture premieres
- The Castle of Cagliostro is released
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- The First Ariane is launched
But all this pales in comparison to the release of #928 Space Cruiser!And happy birthday @bendybadger!
In 1980 :
- West-Germany wins the EK football.
- CNN launches.
- the Gotthardtunnel opens...an important tunnel between Italy and Switserland.
- Ronald Reagan wins the election for president of the USA.
- John Lennon gets shot.
- 3M starts the production of the yellow post-its.
Rocky, Taxi driver and One flew over the cockoo nest were in cinemas att.
Enjoy you 50 th @bendybadger
Born in 1975.
Happy birthday @bendybadger!
Happy birthday!
;)
Happy Birthday Bendy
I didn't know this before consulting Wikipedia so learnt something new today :)
Although according to Wikipedia, the Malaysian Constitutional Crisis also occurred that year.
Happy birthday @bendybadger
On the day I was born, Magic Johnson lead Michigan State to a national championship over Larry Bird and Indiana State.
BTW, it's 1979.
The Oprah Winfrey Show starts its reign of terror on housewives everywhere. But ALF and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse also premieres so it all evens out.
I'm a product of the free love hippie movement!
Celtic won the European Cup this year and Top of the Pops started!
June 13 - Gijs van Lennep (The Netherlands) and co-driver Helmut Marko (Austria) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Martini Racing Porsche 917K.
July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub in Paris, France.
June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin) is launched.
July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in a lunar rover, a day after landing on the Moon.
August 15 - Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth.
November 8 – Led Zeppelin releases their Fourth Studio album "Led Zeppelin IV", which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies.
December 4 - The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert (the event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water"). The casino is rebuilt in 1975.
The newspaper on my birth - day proclaimed that Argentina had invaded the Falkland islands.
I was going to say CNN was launched, but @Covi beat me to it...
Apparently, Pac-Man was released in Japan that year too!