Ten on Tuesday: Headlines Edition

Today’s list is Ten Headlines from the Year I was Born. So much for the mystery of my age…oh, wait, you already knew that I’m not, in fact, 32 still?

Well, the biggest news of my birth year has to be that

1. I was born in a blizzard! Wikipedia may just call it a nor’easter, but ask my parents; it was a full-on blizzard, and, yes, my dad managed to shovel out the car and get my mom to the hospital before I arrived. Guess that’s an advantage of having one’s fifth child: one doesn’t panic.

2. Man walked on the moon! My mom always told me that I was born when man first set foot on the moon. I thought (for a really long time) that she meant, like, the exact same minute. It was a little disappointing to realize I’d been around for a few months when that happened. Because, you know, a blizzard is not quite enough drama for me.

3. Those dirty hippies all got together to make some music.

4.Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture. My buddy Ben showed me the movie when I was in my late twenties, and despite my dislike of film aesthetics from the 60s/70s, I loved this one.

5. The horrific Manson murders shocked the nation.

6. The Concorde took her maiden flight!

7. The first withdrawals of U.S. troops from Vietnam were made.

8. Gap opened its first store.

9. The Chicago Eight Trial began.

10. Muammar Gaddafi gained power in Libya after a military coup.

Quite a variety of events, don’t you think? What was in the headlines when you were born?