A Brief List Of Events Since I Was Born...

This Don't Even Account For 2000-2o20

When Almost Everything Was Invented!!

Before perusing this incomplete list, I need to, once again, 

display my heartfelt thanks for your lovely birthday witches! 

Begin perusing, folks!

Just highlight events hard to read...thank you!

1951		American post-war occupation of Japan ends
1952		George VI dies - Elizabeth II takes British throne
1952		Bolivian Revolution
1952		Death of Eva Perón ("Evita") in Argentina
1952		Huge collectivization push in rural China
1952		Samuel Beckett develops Theatre of the Absurd - "Waiting for Godot"
1952		Dwight Eisenhower becomes US President
1953		New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary first to reach summit of Everest
1953		Death of Sergey Prokofiev (composer)
1953		Death of Josef Stalin - Nikita Khruschev becomes Premiere
1953		Crick and Watson demonstrate double-helix structure of DNA
1953		Soviets successfully test hydrogen bomb
1953		Mau Mau Rebellion breaks out in Kenya
1953		Korean War ends after involving China, US and several other countries
1954		End of First Indochina War - Vietnam partitioned
1954		Laos and Cambodia recognized as independent
1954		Rock'n'Roll music becomes popular - Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, etc
1954		Anti-Communist McCarthyism censured in US
1955		Coup deposes dictator Juan Perón in Argentina
1955		Warsaw Pact signed by USSR, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Albania
1955		Death of Albert Einstein, German-born physicist
1956		Suez Crisis - Britain and France invade Egypt
1956		Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes President of Egyptian Republic
1956		Hungarian revolt brutally suppressed by Soviets
1956		"My Fair Lady" popular musical
1957		Sir Harold MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister
1957		Death of Jean Sibelius (Swedish composer)
1957		Russian Sputnik sattelite launched
1957		European Economic Comunity (EEC) established
1957		Ghana first African colony to gain independence from Britain
1957		India claims state of Kashmir
1958		Dalai Lama flees Tibet from Chinese persecution
1958		Charles de Gaulle given extensive powers in France
1958		Ayub Khan becomes military leader of Pakistan
1958		Oral contraceptive pill becomes available
1958		Great Chinese Famine of 1958-61 kills an estimated 36 million
1959		Terrorist organization ETA founded to fight for Basque independence
1959		Fidel Castro establishes communist dictatorship in Cuba
1959		Communist North Vietnam starts war against Capitalist South
1960		Construction of Aswan High Dam in Egypt begins
1960		Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) established
1960		DH Lawrence's 1928 book "Lady Chatterley's Lover" legally published in the UK
1960		Congo gains independence from Belgium
1961		Cuban Missile Crisis after US-backed anti-Castro Bay of Pigs invasion fails
1961		Berlin Wall built between East and West Germany
1961		Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space
1961		South Africa declares republic and leaves British Commonwealth
1961		Portugal loses its territories in Goa, India
1961		Death of Ernest Hemingway (writer)
1962		Georges Pompidou takes over after vote against Charles de Gaulle
1962		Yemenese Civil War
1962		Sino-Indian Border Conflict between China and India
1962		Death of Marilyn Monroe (actress)
1962		Rachael Carson's book "Silent Spring" launches environmental movement
1963		The Beatles rise to popularity
1963		US President John F Kennedy shot
1964		Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) formed
1964		Nelson Mandela jailed for campaigning against apartheid in South Africa
1964		Kenya becomes republic under Jomo Kenyatta
1964		Indian Prime Minister Jahawarlal Nehru dies
1964		Military dictatorship established in Brazil
1964		Civil Rights Act passed in US
1964		US becomes involved in Vietnam War
1965		White government declares independence in Southern Rhodesia
1965		Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of Philippines
1966		Cultural Revolution begins in China
1967		Sir Francis Chichester first to sail around world single-handed
1967		Che Guevara, Cuban revolutionary leader, killed in Bolivia
1967		First Arab-Israeli (6-Day) War
1967		General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT) formulated
1967		Nigerian Civil War - Biafra famine
1967		General Suharto of Indonesia wrests power from President Sukarno
1967		First human heart transplant performed in South Africa
1967		"Flower Power" at its height in California
1968		C Day Lewis becomes British Poet Laureate
1968		Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact for ideological reasons
1968		Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia crushed by Soviets
1968		Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1968		Black rights campaigner Martin Luther King assassinated
1969		British supersonic aircraft Concorde makes maiden flight
1969		Border disputes between China and Russia
1969		Provisional IRA, terrorist offshoot of IRA, formed
1969		Catholic vs Protestant "Troubles" resume in Ireland
1969		Willi Brandt becomes German Chanceller
1969		Moammar al-Qaddafi (Gadafi) leads military coup in Libya
1969		Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on Moon
1969		US involvement in Vietnam War peaks
1970		Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path") Maoist guerrilla group founded in Peru
1971		Death of Igor Stravinsky (composer)
1971		Revolution in Ethiopia overthrows Haile Selassie
1971		United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar become independent from Britain
1971		Indira Ghandi becomes Prime Minister of India
1971		Indo-Pakistan War - Bangladesh declared independent republic
1971		Rapprochement between US and China - Richard Nixon's visit
1971		Hugo Banzer leads military coup in Bolivia and becomes dictator
1972		"Bloody Sunday" massacre in Ireland
1972		British impose direct rule on Northern Ireland
1972		Francis Ford Coppola's movie "The Godfather" released
1972		Treaty recognizes East and West Germany as sovereign states
1972		"Detente" - Strategic Ams Pact between Russia and the West
1972		European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA)
1972		President Idi Amin expels Asians from Uganda
1972		Ceylon becomes independent Republic of Sri Lanka
1973		Britain joins European Economic Community
1973		General Augusto Pinochet ousts democratic Allende government in Chile
1973		Second Arab-Israeli (Yom Kippur) War
1973		Saudi Arabia leads huge oil price increases - world economy slows
1973		Carl XVI Gustaf becomes King of Sweden
1973		Death of Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist)
1973		US launches Pioneer II to explore outer planets
1973		Henry Kissinger becomes US Secretary of State
1974		Alexander Solzhenitsyn deported to the West
1974		Turkey intervenes in Cyprus
1974		PLO under Yasser Arafat recognized as representing Palestine
1974		Portugal overthrows dictatorship - António de Spinola President
1974		Portugal grants independence to Mozambique, Angola and other colonies
1974		South Africa voted out of UN for apartheid policies
1974		India explodes first nuclear device
1974		Watergate Scandal - Richard Nixon quits as President
1975		Birmingham Pub Bombings by IRA
1975		Christian vs Muslim war in Lebanon
1975		King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assassinated
1975		Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after Franco's death
1975		Civil war breaks out in Angola
1975		US pulls out of Vietnam War
1975		Communists finally triumph in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
1976		Punk (rebel music cult) develops - Sex Pistols, Clash, etc
1976		Death of Sir Benjamin Britten (composer)
1976		Mao Tse-Tung dies - Gang of Four arrested
1976		Giulio Andreotti leads minority government in Italy
1976		Baader-Meinhof Gang (leftist terrorists) active in Germany
1976		Free elections re-established in Spain
1976		Military coup in Argentina and start of state-sponsored "Dirty War" (until 1983)
1977		Israel under Menachem Begin starts West Bank settlements
1977		Activist Steve Biko dies in custody in South Africa
1977		Zulfikar Ali Bhutto executed after coup in Pakistan
1978		Aldo Moro assassinated by leftist Red Brigade terrorists
1978		ETA (Basque seperatist group) active in Spain
1978		Radical reorganization of Cambodia by cruel Pol-Pot regime
1978		Muhammed Zia Ul-Haq becomes hard-line Muslim President of Pakistan
1979		Margaret Thatcher becomes British Prime Minister
1979		Military coup in Bolivia
1979		Somoza regime in Nicaragua ousted by leftist Sandinistas
1979		Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1979		Iranian Revolution - Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims Islamic Republic
1979		Camp David Agreement brokers peace between Israel and Egypt
1979		Idi Amin forced out of Uganda
1979		"Boat People" start to flee Communist regime in Vietnam
1979		President Park Chung Hee of South Korea assassinated
1979		Three Mile Island nuclear reactor incident in US
1980		Robert Mugabe leads first black government in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1980		John Lennon (singer) shot
1980		Social Democratic Party formed
1980		Deng Xiao-Ping becomes Chairman of China
1980		Relations between East and West Germany deteriorate
1980		Military coup in Turkey under Kenan Evren
1980		Iran-Iraq War begins
1980		Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland - Lech Walesa forms Solidarity
1980		Tito dies - Yugoslavia's six states begin to argue
1980		Iranian Hostage Crisis - hostages held in US Embassy in Tehran
1980		Eruption of Mount St Helens (60 killed)
1980		Ronald Reagan becomes US President
1981		Black youths riot in British cities
1981		IRA prisoners go on hunger strike - 10 die
1981		François Mitterrand becomes first Socialist President of France
1981		Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spenser
1981		President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt assassinated by Muslim fundamentalists
1981		Greece votes in Socialist Andreas Papandreou
1981		AIDS becomes major health threat throughout world
1982		Britain regain Falklands Islands (Malvinas) after Argentinian occupation
1982		Israel invades Lebanon - Israel-Lebanon War
1982		Martial law in Poland ended by Solidarity action
1983		Bettino Craxi leads Italian coalition government
1983		Helmut Kohl becomes German Chancellor
1983		End of Israel-Lebanon War
1983		Norway's Gro Harlen Brundtland establishes WCED
1983		Socialist government headed by Mário Soares in Portugal
1983		Coloureds and Asians allowed vote in South Africa
1983		Philippino opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated
1984		Death of Sir John Betjeman (poet)
1984		Miners' Strike in Britain
1984		Drought and famine in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan
1984		Indira Ghandi assassinated by Sikhs - violence erupts in India
1984		Bhopal industrial disaster in Madhya Pradesh (4,000 - 25,000 killed)
1985		Brazil returns to democratic civilian rule
1985		Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia claims 25,000 lives
1985		Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Russian Premiere - "Glasnost" and "Perestroika"
1985		Enver Hoxha dies - Albania gradually relaxes foreign relations
1985		Pro-Solidarity Father Jerzy Popieluzsko assassinated in Poland
1985		Tamil separatist resurgence in Sri Lanka
1986		Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister
1986		Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, contaminating most of Europe
1986		Marcos flees country and Corazon Aquino takes power in Philippines
1987		Russia and West sign first of several treaties to reduce nuclear arms
1987		Iran-Contra Affair - arms for aid scandal
1987		Intifada - Palestinian opposition to Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank
1988		End of Iran-Iraq War
1988		US and Canada sign free trade agreement
1989		Pro-democracy protest in Tianenmen Square, Beijing, brutally crushed
1989		Akihito succedes his father Hirohito as Emperor of Japan
1989		Russians pull out of costly war in Afghanistan
1989		European Monetary System (EMS) establishes move towards single currency
1989		Death of Salvador Dalí (Spanish artist)
1989		Exxon Valdez oil-spill in Alaska
1989		Overthrow of communist rule in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Bulgaria
1989		Non-violent Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
1989		Violent overthrow of Ceausescu's communist regime in Romania
1989		Berlin Wall demolished
1990		Margaret Thatcher resigns - John Major takes over as British PM
1990		Alberto Fujimori elected President in Peru
1990		East and West Germany unite as Federal Republic of Germany
1990		Neslon Mandela released - end of apartheid in South Africa
1990		Hubble Space Telescope launched
1991		USSR breaks up into constituent countries - end of Soviet era
1991		Official dissolution of Warsaw Pact
1991		Persian Gulf War starts after Iraq invades Kuwait
1991		Ethiopian Civil War ends - Eritrea becomes independent
1991		Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi killed by Tamil suicide bomber
1992		Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina starts
1993		Bill Clinton elected US President
1993		New York World Trade Center bombing
1993		Salvatore Riina, reputed Mafia leader, arrested
1993		European Union (EU) formed by former EEC members
1993		Violent constitutional crisis in Russia after Boris Yeltsin dissolves legislature
1994		Jean Chrétien becomes Canadian Prime Minister
1994		Rwandan genocide of ethnic Tutsis by Hutus
1994		"Chunnel", rail tunnel between England and France, inaugurated
1994		IRA announce unconditional cease-fire - lasts until 1996
1994		Construction starts on China's Three Gorges Dam
1994		North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) established
1994		Nelson Mandela becomes first black President of South Africa
1994		Sovereignty of Quebec narrowly defeated in referendum
1995		The Great Hanshin earthquake hits Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000
1995		World Trade Organization (WTO) established to replace GATT
1995		End of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1995		Russian war in Chechnya (ends in 1996)
1996		Prince Charles divorces Princess Diana
1996		Israel elects Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister
1997		Tony Blair becomes British Prime Minister
1997		Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule
1997		US spacecraft begins exploration of Mars
1997		Princess Diana killed in Paris car accident
1997		Asian financial crisis
1997		Catholic nun Mother Teresa dies after nearly 50 years work in India
1998		Male impotence drug Viagra licensed for use in USA
1998		Good Friday Accord (Belfast Agreement) signed by Ireland and Britain
1998		Indonesian dictator Suharto steps down after 32 years in power
1998		German chancellor Helmut Kohl defeated by Gerhard Schröder
1999		Bill Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial
1999		Euro launched on international currency markets
1999		King Hussein of Jordan dies after ruling for 46 years
1999		Columbine High School murders
1999		Nelson Mandela retires as president of South Africa - succeeded by Thabo Mbeki
1999		Military coup led by Gen. Pervez Musharraf overthrows Pakistani government
1999		China launches first spacecraft
1999		Vladimir Putin becomes acting Russian President after Yeltsin resigns

Now you have an inkling how old we septuagenarians really are, right? 

sep·tu·a·ge·nar·i·an

/sepCHo͞oəjəˈnerēən/

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noun

1. a person who is from 70 to 79 years old.

Have a SUPER weekend, gang!!!