What was happening in the world during the year you had your 21st Birthday

MS Windows 1.0 released
Back to the future
Live Aid
Titanic found
Bradford City and Heysel Disasters
... and a pretty dire year for MFC..
 
  • The European Union
    The Maastricht Treaty was signed, establishing the European Union. The treaty set rules for a single currency, foreign and security policy, and cooperation in justice and home affairs.


  • The Olympics
    The Winter Olympics opened in Albertville, France on February 8.


  • The Bosnian War
    The first victims of the Bosnian War were a Serb groom and his father, who were shot by Serb snipers in Sarajevo.


  • The Conservative Party
    The Conservative Party, led by John Major, was re-elected in the general election.


  • The Earth Summit
    The Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro.


  • The UEFA Euro football tournament
    Denmark won the UEFA Euro football tournament, which was hosted by Sweden.


  • The discovery of exoplanets
    Radio astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail discovered several terrestrial-mass planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12.


  • The conviction of Mike Tyson
    Boxer Mike Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington.



 
On the actual week I was 21

I had a small party at my then girlfriends in London
We beat West Ham 1-0
U2 were no1 with Desire

It was the year of the Piper Alpha disaster, resumed space shuttle flight, Lockerbie, Eggwina Currie, and Ben Johnson being stripped of his Gold medal.
 
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East Timor gained independence

Bosnia and herzegovina had a new national anthem

Bhutan gets TV

Cricket world cup held in England

Brandi Chastain shows the world her bra
 
Obama sworn in for his second term.

Pope Benedict XVI resigned, Pope Francis became the first Pope from the Americas and Southern Hemisphere.

Queen Beatrix abdicated in the Netherlands, replaced by her son William-Alexander.

Lee Rigby was murdered.

Edward Snowden leaked classified US documents.

The Emir of Qatar, Hamad, abdicated and was replaced by his son Tamim.

Kevin Rudd became PM of Australia only to be beaten by Tony Abbott in the election.

Morsi was couped as President of Egypt.

Albert II of Belgium abdicated and was replaced by his son Philippe.

Grand Theft Auto V came out.
 
Berlin Wall came down and various other events that signalled the end of the USSR.

George Bush (the elder) became President of the US.

Hillsborough disaster.

Boro relegated on final day at Hillsborough. Gutted.

I broke my arm quite badly in a motorbike accident
 
Liverpool won the 1st Division and European Cup and lost in the FA Cup final to Man Utd.
Man City came 2nd followed by Ipswich,Villa,Newcastle and Man Utd.
Boro finished 12th as Sunderland Stoke and Tottenham were relegated.
Jack Charlton resigned and was replaced by John Neal.
 
True Internet began
Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia kill 75 people
Nellie massacre kills over 2,000 people
Final episode of MASH
The 3D printer is invented
Space Shuttle Challenger makes her maiden voyage
Seve Ballesteros wins the PGA Golf Masters
US Embassy in Beirut bombed killing 63 people
The Disney Channel launches in the USA
Aberdeen beat Real Madrid to win the European Cup Winners Cup
Hamburg beat Juventus to win the European Cup
2nd Sudanese Civil War starts
The 1st human-made object leaves the vicinity of the major planets in our Solar System (Pioneer 10)
The 1st worldwide mobile phone goes on sale
India wins the Cricket World Cup
Start of the Sri Lanka Civil War (lasts 16 years)
Soviet Union shoot down a Korean Commercial Airline killing all 269 people on board
Soviet Union nuclear false alarm incident
Neil Kinnock becomes the British Labour Party leader
The 1st cellular mobile phone call is made
At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Beirut barrack bombings kill 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians
Multi-Tool Word released in the USA (would later become Microsoft Word)
Battle of Tripoli
The 1st Cruise Missile arrives at Greenham Common
Provisional IRA bomb Harrods killing 6 people and injuring many more
Middlesbrough knocked out of the FA Cup in a replay against Arsenal
Middlesbrough finish 16th in Division 2
 
HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
 
The year of Band Aid, the UK Miners strike and numerous scientific discoveries, 1984 events will forever be remembered. The winter and summer Olympics saw record numbers of nations gather together to compete, despite political tensions around the globe. Further events which hit the headlines found in our 1984 newspapers.
 
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The fall of leadership in the Soviet Union, which emerged from the Chernobyl disaster, and led to internal reforms and the dramatic split up of the Soviet Union and end of the Cold War with the demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Some time to be 21….😃
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I've just been reading @Aet290204 birthday thread and he mentioned the rugby world cup took place in the year he had his 21st birthday so I decided to see what was going on in the world when I turned 21.

ET was the highest-grossing film of the decade
The 1982 FIFA World Cup was held in Spain and was won by Italy.
Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album, Thriller, which becomes the best-selling album of all time.
Israel invades Lebanon again.
Argentina invades Falkland Islands.
Ozzy Osbourne eats a live bat on stage.
Glo worms were the most popular toy.
I went to Salou on the Siesta bus.
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Amazing exactly the same things happened the year I was 21 too. In addition I started working in Teesside for the first time and never left.
 
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