What was making the headlines when you were born?

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

Here are some of the headlines from 1978, the year I was born:

Sweden became the first country to ban aerosol sprays thought to damage the ozone layer.

The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.

Johnny Rotten quits the Sex Pistols after the final show of their American tour, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" was announced in Manchester.

Pope John Paul, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church died after the shortest papal reign in history.

Carter wins Panama Canal battle
The US Senate has backed a treaty to transfer the Panama Canal to the control of Panama.

December 1979:

AT THE MOVIES, Bette Midler (right) apes Janis Joplin and attracts Frederic Forrest in the rock & roll romance The Rose. IN MUSIC, the Eagles continue to dominate the Billboard album chart with their aptly titled The Long Run. IN BOOKSTORES, the Henry Kissinger foreign policy memoir The White House Years is a Publishers Weekly best-seller. AND IN THE NEWS, during a Texas visit to treat his progressing cancer, the exiled Shah of Iran considers which nation will best provide him a safe haven. Less than a year later, he will die while living in Egypt.

"Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV
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550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain
From http://www.brainyhistory.com/

These were some of the stories...

http://www.1960sflashback.com/1960/News.asp

September 1989

The largest oil spill in U.S. history occurrs after the Exxon Valdez strikes Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

In Liverpool, England a soccer stadium barrier collapses killing 94 and injuring 170 in Britain's worst soccer disaster.

THE 19th WHICH IS MY BIRTHDATE!!! ****
Hurricane "Hugo" causes 71 deaths and damage estimated at $4.2 billion .

A massive earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay area minutes before the World Series between the Giants and A's, causing 59 deaths .

The Berlin Wall comes down, symbolically ending the Cold War.

President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.