SINCE TOTTENHAM LAST WON THE TITLE
1962
Marilyn Munro dies
Bob Dylan recorded Blowin in the wind
1963
US President John F Kennedy
assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr makes
his ‘I have a dream’ speech
for civil rights at the March on
Washington
1964
Beatlemania reaches it height
Japan’s bullet train launched
Cassius Clay (later known as
Muhammad Ali) wins
heavyweight boxing title
1965
African-American leader
Malcolm X assassinated
1966
Mao’s Cultural Revolution
begins in China
Release of film Blow up,
directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni
Truman Capote publishes the
true-crime book In cold blood
Star Trek series debuts on
US TV
1967
Israel and Egypt fight the
Six Day War
Christiaan Barnard performs
the first human heart transplant
Aretha Franklin records the song
‘Respect’
Australian Prime Minister
Harold Holt disappears
1968
Martin Luther King Jr
assassinated
Release of film 2001: a space
odyssey, directed by Stanley
Kubrick
1969
Woodstock three-day music
festival held in the US
Neil Armstrong becomes first
man to walk on the moon
Millions march in Vietnam
moratorium protests in the US
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
series debuts on UK TV
Sesame Street series debuts
on US TV
1971
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1972
Release of film The godfather,
directed by Francis Ford
Coppola
First watch produced with
digital display
1973
US troops pull out of Vietnam
Patrick White wins Nobel
Prize for Literature
Sydney Opera House opens
Mobile phone invented
The current Tottenham manager is born
1974
Heiress Patty Hearst kidnapped
by Symbionese Liberation Army
Punk rock emerges in UK
US President Richard Nixon
resigns following the Watergate
scandal
Cheap pocket calculators
introduced
1975
North Vietnamese enter Saigon,
ending the war in Vietnam
Civil war in Lebanon
Release of US film Jaws,
directed by Steven Spielberg,
often seen as the mother of
summer blockbusters
Tom Wolfe publishes his book
on the American space
program, The right stuff
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
found Microsoft
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is released
1976
Apple Computers founded
by Steve Jobs and Stephen
Wozniak
Dolby Stereo systems
introduced into cinemas
Queen Elizabeth II sends an
email message
Release of US film Taxi driver,
directed by Martin Scorsese
1977
Elvis Presley found dead
Release of Star Wars, directed
by George Lucas, launching
the epic film franchise
Disco music becomes the rage
Movie Saturday Night Fever is released
1978
World’s first test-tube baby born
Reverend Jim Jones leads
his cult’s mass suicide at
Jonestown
1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes
the first woman prime minister
of Britain
First gay and lesbian civil rights
march held in Washington DC
Major nuclear accident occurs
at Three Mile Island, New York
Rap music goes beyond the
streets of New York City
Release of film Apocalypse
now, directed by Francis Ford
Coppola
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1980
Actor Ronald Reagan elected
US President
John Lennon assassinated
in New York City
CNN 24-hour news channel
begins reporting
1981
Prince Charles marries
Lady Diana Spencer
Xerox first markets a mouse
as an integrated part of a
personal computer
MTV 24/7 music-video channel
launched
Men at Work release their
worldwide hit single Down under
1982
Release of US film ET,
directed by Steven Spielberg
Michael Jackson releases
Thriller, the biggest-selling
album in history
AIDS named
Gabriel Garcia Marquez wins
Nobel Prize for Literature
Italian neoexpressionist
movement known as the
Transavanguardia kicks o
1983
TIME magazine names the
computer as ‘Man of the Year’
US announces a missile
defence plan called Star Wars
Jean Baudrillard and Hal Foster
publish seminal treatises on
postmodern theory
Richard Serra exhibition held
at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Serge Guilbaut publishes the
book How New York stole the
idea of modern art
Former union leader Bob Hawke
becomes Prime Minister of
Australia
1984
Apple Mac introduced with
the Macintosh 128k
CD-ROM introduced
World’s worst industrial
disaster: a poison gas leak
from the Union Carbide factory
in Bhopal, India
William Gibson coins the
term ‘cyberspace’ in his novel
Neuromancer
Joseph Beuys creates the
1985
USSR President Mikhail
Gorbachev calls for reforms
in the Soviet Union
Scientists announce discovery
of hole in the ozone layer over
the Antarctic
Worldwide mass communication
helps Live Aid concert raise
famine aid for Ethiopia
Desktop publishing emerges
as a force
Rupert Murdoch sets up
Fox TV network in the US
Soapie Neighbours makes its
Australian TV debut
1986
Challenger space shuttle
explodes
Chernobyl nuclear accident
leads to the evacuation of
135 000 people in the USSR
Nintendo introduce hand-held
Game Boy
Australian film Crocodile
Dundee, starring Paul Hogan,
becomes a smash hit worldwide
1987
World population hits 5 billion
Black Monday stockmarket
crash
Margaret Thatcher re-elected
for third term as British Prime
Minister
First forensic use of DNA in
a criminal case
First mobile-phone call in
Australia
Release of film Wall Street,
directed by Oliver Stone,
featuring Gordon Gecko’s
‘Greed is good’ speech
The Simpsons introduced
on The Tracey Ullman Show
on US TV
1988
George Bush elected
US President
First computer-virus crime
reported
Salman Rushdie’s novel
The Satanic Verses causes
outrage among Muslims
Imparja Television starts
broadcasting to remote
Central Australia via satellite
1989
Berlin Wall falls – a symbolic
end to the Cold War
Tiananmen Square massacre
in China
Exxon Valdez tanker causes
the world’s largest oil spill
Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) formed with
key nations from the region
Seinfeld, a show about nothing,
starts its ten-year run on US TV
Australian Design Summit
held in Canberra
Disposable cameras introduced
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1990
Hubble Space Telescope
launched
Gulf War begins following
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
East and West Germany reunify
Nelson Mandela freed after
27 years as a political prisoner
in South Africa
Michael Crichton publishes
the novel Jurassic Park
Tim Berners-Lee submits his
proposal for the World Wide Web
Smoking on US domestic flights
banned
The Three Tenors perform
during World Cup soccer finals
1991
USSR dissolves into
15 separate republics
US and its allies begin Operation
Desert Storm against Iraq in
the Gulf War
Paul Keating becomes
Australian Prime Minister after
challenging Hawke for Labor
leadership
Release of film Terminator 2:
Judgement Day, directed by
James Cameron, which
advances computer morphing
technology
Sony Playstation released
ARSENAL WIN THE LEAGUE ONLY LOSING ONE MATCH THE ENTIRE SEASON
1992
Riots in Los Angeles after the
videotaped bashing of a black
man, Rodney King, by police
Prince Charles and Diana
separate, divorcing four years
later
Australia issues the first in
its complete series of plastic
currency notes
TV’s X-Files series lands in
the US
1993
European Union (EU) ratified
US military introduces combat
roles for women
Car bomb detonates in the
World Trade Centre, New York
Rwandan genocide begins
Nokia sends text messages
between mobile phones
ARSENAL WIN THE DOMESTIC CUP DOUBLE BEATING SPURS IN THE SEMI FINAL OF THE FA CUP
1994
Existence of black holes
proved by NASA scientists
using Hubble Telescope
Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel)
opens, connecting Britain and
France by undersea rail
700 paintings in St Petersburg’s
Hermitage revealed as looted
from Germany in 1945 by
Russian soldiers
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of
Nirvana, commits suicide
Michael Jackson weds Elvis’s
daughter, Lisa Marie Presley
Friends series debuts on US TV
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1995
First centenary of the
moving image
CD-ROM can now carry
a full-length feature film
Sony demonstrates a
flat-screen TV
Release of film Pulp fiction,
directed by Quentin Tarantino,
which wins the Palme d’Or
at Cannes
Timothy McVeigh bombs an
Oklahoma City federal building,
killing 168 people
1996
NASA Rover mission
successfully lands and sends
back photographs of the surface
of Mars
American football legend OJ
Simpson found not guilty of
murdering his wife
Rapper Tupac Shakur
gunned down
Ebola virus kills 244 Africans in
Kikwit, Zaire in Central Africa
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin assassinated at a Tel-Aviv
peace rally
Fifteen cybercafés now
operating in Paris
1997
Scottish scientists clone
a sheep named Dolly
British colony of Hong Kong
returned to China
The head of Indigenous man
Yagan repatriated to Australia
164 years after being taken to
the UK
Bringing them home tabled,
the report into the removal of
Indigenous Australian children
from their families, known as
the Stolen Generations
Diana, Princess of Wales, dies
as the result of a car crash in
Paris after being pursued by
paparazz
1998
US President Bill Clinton
impeached on grounds of
perjury
Anti-impotence drug Viagra
on the market
Google search engine emerges
Colourful Apple iMac computer
launched
Release of The Truman Show
and Pleasantville, films that blur
the boundary between the real
and hyper-real
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1999
Y2K scare of computer failure
when the clocks roll over to
2000
Ikonos satellite can identify
things on earth as small as
a card table
Euro becomes official European
currency
NATO begins bombing
Yugoslavia in response to
‘ethnic cleansing’ of Kosovar
Albanians
Two US students go on killing
spree at Columbine High School
2000
Human genome deciphered,
identifying all the genes in
human DNA
Dot-com bubble bursts,
dampening a speculative frenzy
of investment in internet-related
stocks
Crash of a supersonic Concorde
plane kills 113 people
George W Bush elected US
President
Millennium Dome, the largest
dome in the world, opens at
Greenwich, UK
Sydney Olympic Games a
massive success
2001
Terrorists attack World Trade
Centre in New York on
September 11
50% of Americans now use
the internet
Albert Einstein named TIME
magazine’s ‘Person of the
Century’
Apple iPod becomes the
bestselling MP3 player and
an icon of the decade
Release of the first film in
The Lord of the Rings trilogy,
directed by Peter Jackson
Idol TV franchise kicks off
internationally
2002
Web logs become ‘blogs’
Apple iMovies bundled with
all new Macs for editing home
movies
PC sales pass one billion mark
Euthanasia legalised in the
Netherlands
East Timor becomes a new
nation
ARSENAL WIN THE DOUBLE AGAIN
2003
Space shuttle Columbia
explodes during take-off
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
captured by US troops
Second Life offers a parallel
3D virtual world on the internet
Social networking website
MySpace.com launched
Dan Brown releases his bestselling
novel The Da Vinci Code
2004
Athens hosts the Olympic
Games
Boxing Day tsunami
devastates Asia
Tasmanian-born Mary
Donaldson weds Crown
Prince Frederik of Denmark
Term ‘podcasting’ coined
for downloading a program
as a digital file
Social networking website
Facebook takes off
Wi-fi cellphones, or internet
phones, introduced
ARSENAL WIN THE LEAGUE TITLE AGAIN GOING THE ENTIRE SEASON UNBEATEN AND CLINCH THE TITLE AT TOTTENHAM.
2005- present i am sure that readers are familiar with the trend and long may it continue until my dying day and decades after.
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