Questions for old timers

1961 - 2 years before I was born

@lee-d

No one single year is correct for all questions.?ÿ 1961 is the answer to at least one, though.

Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in one season?

I was there for the 61st! About 1961. I would have been 10.?ÿ The first of 3 MLB games I have been to. 1 each, Yankees, Mets and Red Sox.?ÿ?ÿ

Well here is a sample of my ignorance: 1960 sure comes to mind often.

Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat on the conference table? 1960

No more advertisements for cigarettes on TV? 1972

Princess Summerfall Winterspring first appeared? Never heard of her.

Sputnik flew? 1959 or whenever it was the start of the ƒ??Space Raceƒ? between USA and USSR

The US flag appeared with 50 stars? 1960 SWMBO was in HI when it became a state in 1959

Madalyn Murray O'hair filed suit to stop school prayer? 1976

Roger Maris hit 601 home runs in one season? 1960

Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe? 1960

John Glenn took his first ride in space? 1960

Ringo Starr played his first concert with The Beatles? 1960

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From memory only. I can't give exact years, but I've?ÿ think I've got this by decade.?ÿ

The cigarette advertising thing applies to the US. UK did it some years earlier. And there are probably places in the world where it is still legal.?ÿ

1950's

Princess Summerfall Winterspring first appeared?

Sputnik flew?

The US flag appeared with 50 stars?

Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe?

1960's

Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat on the conference table?

Madalyn Murray O'hair filed suit to stop school prayer?

Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in one season?

John Glenn took his first ride in space?

Ringo Starr played his first concert with The Beatles?

1970's

No more advertisements for cigarettes on TV?

I would like to note an obscure 1959 milestone: computer assisted manufacturing.?ÿ

The folks at MIT's Servomechanism Laboratory successfully created a computer language that linked a computer to a milling machine.?ÿ A successful public demonstration was prepared for the Pentagon.

This was definitely a noteworthy accomplishment in the infancy of the union between computer and machine.?ÿ What I think was really noteworthy however was what the milling machine manufactured for the event.?ÿ All that attended were given an ashtray produced at the demonstration...

I remember seeing a telephone call being made in the early 1970's where the ones on the line could both talk and see the other party at the same time.?ÿ This was in the Electrical Engineering Department at KSU.

A former co-worker reported seeing an early version of television on a tiny circular screen in the EE Department at KSU in the early 1940's.

I remember all of those, and being shocked when the radio announced Sputnik.

ps 1961 was a very good year. I had a Corvette convertible and lived in Fort Lauderdale. Don't hardly get any better than that.

At first I was like, "Hey, I'm an old-timer." Now I realize I'm not an old old-timer. I never even saw a cigarette commercial on television.

Know I lived through all of that. However, would not have payed attention to at least six of that list at the time.?ÿ

Posted by: @holy-cow

I interviewed at Bell Labs at Naperville in 1972 (and found they didn't want me).?ÿ I was shown two technologies they were working with - Picturephone (Youtube) and cellular phone service.?ÿ Only one of them took off.

The answers:

The shoe---1960

No cig ads on TV---Did not realize this was a trick question.?ÿ Approved in 1970 but took effect on January 2, 1971

Princess SFWS---Human on The Howdy Doody Show in 1950 (In real life she was the opposite of her character)

Sputnik---1957

Flag---1960

O'Hair no prayer---first suit in 1960

Maris---1961

Joe and Marilyn---1954

Spaceman---1962

Ringo's first concert with The Beatles---1962

For almost all of these I wasn't even a twinkle in my daddy' eye yet. But either fortunately, or as its starting to seem, unfortunately, my deep interest and occasional obsession with history and reading anything, I don't remember these events, but know when they happened, and don't want or need to.

I remember six of them?ÿ The flag because they made a big deal of it at school the day we all went out to watch the old flag come down and the new one go up.?ÿ This is the longest period in US history without adding a State.?ÿ I sort of knew Kruschchev was a bad foreign leader and was amused to see him on the evening news behaving like a toddler wanting out of the play pen.?ÿ The prayer thing because of starting every school day with The Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord's Prayer.?ÿ We said a prayer before eating our school lunch.?ÿ Noticed the Catholics weren't reading from the same scriptures.?ÿ ?ÿMaris hitting 61 in '61 because Mickey Mantle hit something like 54 the same year and he had played ball all around my home area when he was younger.?ÿ I actually remember when they wouldn't send humans to space and sent chimps first.?ÿ Glenn was just another guy stretching the limits at the time.?ÿ TV was loaded with cigarette commercials to the extent that the principal actors in a show might also do commercials for the cigarette company during their own shows.?ÿ Even The Flintstones were lighting up.?ÿ I knew the Marlboro Man when he was still wet behind the ears.

I misread; thought you meant all in the same year. I know Maris was '61 and Khrushchev was right around there - maybe '62? Ringo was probably around '63?

I remember: the flag, Khrushchev (I think), Maris for sure my dad was a huge Mantle fan, Ringo no way, not till 64 and I do remember them then, I can still see myself during a trip to Rapid City talking about them with some cousins. Glenn I do remember, never saw Howdy Doody, Joe and Marilyn, not born then, O'hair, not something I would have cared about enough to remember even if I heard about it. Parents then didn't talk about that stuff in front of kids. At least mine didn't.?ÿ?ÿ

@lee-d

Pete Best was the original Beatles drummer (once they took the name) who left the group in '62.?ÿ That's when Richard Starkey took over the slot as drummer.

I 'm sure I heard about Sputnik but it didn't make much of an impression on me at the time.

I remember going out to see the Echo balloon the US put up as the first experimental communication relay satellite (passive reflector). There were two Collins Radio ground stations near here that were part of the experiments. Those were still visible although inactive in the 1970's. A road is named Echo Hill Rd in commemoration.

The first time I remember hearing the term Sputnik was when a BIG kid, four years old than me, said he could move faster than Sputnik.?ÿ That meant nothing to me.?ÿ Sort of like saying he was slower than molasses in January.?ÿ Does anyone sit around outside in January attempting to pour molasses out of a bottle??ÿ No.?ÿ So how do we know how slow that is?