Birth Year Gallery

[stonemonkts]

Has this been done before?

Post pictures of people, things, events, whatever...from the year of your birth.

1958 Edsel Convertible, baby



Brussels Expo 1958 World's Fair



Jupiter Test Flight



1958 Schwinn

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

D-Day





Casablanca

[stonemonkts]

High Tech Tube from UK



1958 Ford Fairlane (looks like a hearse)



Touch of Evil

[bostontricky]

[Enforcer]

My hometown enjoyed a race riot in the year I was born.

[chaamba]

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[crawjo]

[john williams]

ESP's first recording session of July 10th 1964, two days before I was born, yielded this-

[john williams]

Ed Sullivan show appearance Feb '64



Mariner IV launched Nov '64

[jesus marion joseph]

Damn, you guys hogged all the '64 shit!

[Jazzzoline]

If you created that thread because you wanted to know my age, you win...




Willard Frank Libby
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"


ROME 1960
Games of the XVII Olympiad


Cassius Marcellus Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali (USA-boxing), first gained international prominence by winning the light-heavyweight gold medal. He would later turn professional and embark on a phenomenal career.



1960 Chilean Tsunami
On May 22, 1960, at 19:11 GMT, an earthquake occurred off the coast of South Central Chile. A Pacific-wide tsunami was triggered by the earthquake, which had a surface-wave magnitude of 8.6, an epicenter of 39.5° S, 74.5° W, and a focal depth of 33 km. The number of fatalities associated with both the tsunami and the earthquake has been estimated to be between 490 to 2,290. Damage cost estimates were over a half billion dollars.


John F. Kennedy elected President in narrow contest over Richard Nixon


Belgian Congo wins independence

[Jazzzoline]

some more


Let's do the twist - Chubby Checker


Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland



Are You Lonesome Tonight


Bonanza


The Untouchables


Clark Gable dies

[Jazzzoline]

and more...


Soviet Sputnik 5 launches two dogs into orbit and returns them safely to earth
.oo( poor dogs)

First studies linking cigarette smoking with heart disease
Sorry, no pics for this one



First "Teflon" non-sticking cookware goes on sale at Macy's in New York


First oral contraceptives made available to the public

[jesus marion joseph]

Originally Posted by Jazzzoline

First studies linking cigarette smoking with heart disease
Sorry, no pics for this one

[Jazzzoline]

Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

pics of the studies? or reports?

[Jazzzoline]

August 26, 1960

Branford Marsalis Born

Jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis was born on this date in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Grammy Award winner has done some work as an actor in films like School Daze, Throw Momma from the Train, and Eve's Bayou. Marsalis was also the conductor of the Tonight Show Band from 1992 to 1995.

[jesus marion joseph]

Originally Posted by Jazzzoline

pics of the studies? or reports?

What're you, a law review editor??

[Jazzzoline]

1960 has also been a great year against black community segregation in the USA
February 01, 1960


Wave of Sit-ins Begin in Greensboro

Four African American North Carolina Tech State University freshmen occupy seats at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, after they were refused service. This event sparks a wave of nonviolent sit-ins that spreads throughout the country and results in the integration of seventeen school districts and countless public arenas.

March 04, 1960

Students Conduct Lunch Counter Sit-in in Texas

Inspired by the sit-in of college students at F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, Texas students conduct a lunch counter sit-in.

March 09, 1960

Alabama Students Protest Segregation


About one thousand African American students protest against segregation on the steps of the former Confederate Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama. Elroy Embry, the protest organizer, warns those who cannot protest peacefully to stay away due to the extreme racial tension in the city. Nine students are expelled from Alabama State University as a result.

March 09, 1960

Students Pay for Ad to Appeal for Human Rights

College students from Atlanta Univ., Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, Spelman, and ITC pay for an ad in the Atlanta Constitution that issued an Appeal for Human Rights.

April 15, 1960

SNCC Formed

Between April 15 and 17, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. SNCC coordinated sit-ins, supported their leaders and publicized events. From their ranks came many of today's leaders, including Congressman John Lewis and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond.

April 24, 1960

Race Riot in Mississippi

A major race riot breaks out on Biloxi Beach after a group of African Americans move onto a section of the beach reserved for whites only. Armed whites gather and shots are fired causing the injuries of eight blacks and two whites. City leaders blame the NAACP for inciting the violence.

April 25, 1960

Tennessee's Restrictions on Black Voting End

In the first voting case under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the federal court finally ends restrictions against black voting in Fayette County, Tennessee.

June 20, 1960

Harry Belafonte Wins Emmy


Harry Belafonte is awarded an Emmy Award for his television special “Tonight with Harry Belafonte” on this day. Mr. Belafonte is the first African American to win the prestigious industry award.

July 31, 1960

Nation of Islam Calls for Black State

At a Nation of Islam meeting in New York City, Elijah Muhammad calls for the creation of a black state in this country. Muhammad bases his views on the belief that harmonious residential racial integration does not work.
.oO( I think it didn't work)

August 15, 1960

Virginia Schools Integration Policy Takes Effect

Schools in Richmond and Roanoke, Virginia are integrated. It is one of the first school integration policies to take effect in the South.

September 06, 1960

Campbell Integrates Raleigh Schools

Seven year old William Campbell becomes the first black student in the all-white public schools of Raleigh, North Carolina. He will go on to serve as the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.

sadly, things didn't turn well in South Africa
March 21, 1960
"Sharpeville massacre"


69 people were killed and 180 wounded in South Africa's "Sharpeville Massacre" on this date. South Africa's police fired shots at unarmed men, women, and children who were protesting the "Pass Law". The "Pass Law" was a law restricting the movement of Blacks in South Africa before the abolishment of apartheid.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Originally Posted by Jazzzoline

Willard Frank Libby
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"

Local boy, grew up on an apple orchard in Sebastopol, which now has a Libby Park, a Libby Wing at the high schoool, etc.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Actually, it appears Casablanca came out the year before -- as Bogie said, "I was misinformed."

But '44 did produce this cinematic gem:









Kotwica, a symbol of Polish resistance -- during August and September, Poland lost 18,000 troops and 250,000 civilians in the Warsaw Uprising.




Anne Frank and her family are discovered and sent to Auschwsitz.





FDR elected to a fourth term.






Bela Bartok's "Concerto For Orchestra" is given its world premiere by the Boston Symphony on December 1, 1944.







Bing Crosby starred in "Going My Way", and had 4 of the year's top ten records:

"Besame Mucho" by Jimmy Dorsey
"Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
"A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
"I Love You" by Bing Crosby
"I'll Get By" by Harry James
"Mairzy Doats" by Merry Macs
"San Fernando Valley" by Bing Crosby
"Shoo-Shoo Baby" by The Andrews Sisters
"Swinging On a Star" by Bing Crosby
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" by The Mills Brothers

[Ron Thorne]

What a great thread idea, Pat!

Here are a few items from my birth year. Not all of them include good memories.



Toyota Model AC



1943 Cadillac (M-24)


History of Jazz Time Line: 1943

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• Capital and Decca sign with the musician's union.
• Bop is becoming well known among young Jazz players.
• Charlie Parker is now in the Earl Hines band playing tenor sax. Dizzy is playing trumpet for the Hines band at the same time.
• John Coltrane graduates high school and moves to Philadelphia. In the fall, Coltrane attends the Ornstein School of Music to study alto sax.
• Charlie Parker marries Geraldine Scott.
• Ellington initiates a series of annual concerts at Carnegie Hall with Black, Brown and Beige, an extended concert of nearly 50 minutes.
• Ben Webster leaves Ellington to work on 52nd Street in NYC. Ben hears an obscure alto sax player named Charlie Parker and is duly impressed.
• In December, Lester Young records a number of very influential sides for Keynote as the Lester Young Quartet. Young is showing signs of change in his playing. His tone is getting thicker and his lines are not nearly as sculptured. Afternoon of a Basie-ite is particularly good.
• Gillespie leaves Hines and joins Ellington briefly. Later, Diz takes a group consisting of Gillespie on trumpet, Oscar Pettiford on bass, George Wallington on piano, Max Roach on drums and Don Byas on tenor into the Onyx on 52nd Street. This is a Bop band. They play the Onyx thru the winter of 1943-44. This is the public's first real exposure to Bop.
• Bop pianist Bud Powell gets first major job with ex-Ellington trumpeter Cootie Williams. Records made by this band shows Bop style very clearly.
• Bop trumpeter Fats Navarro is currently playing with Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy.
• Art Tatum forms a trio with Slam Stewart on bass and Tiny Grimes or Everett Barksdale on guitar. Audiences are attracted.
• Fats Waller dies on a train while returning from a tour.
• Mingus leaves Armstrong to work in Kid Ory's revival band.
• Pianist Lenny Tristano is currently teaching at the Christiansen School of Popular Music and playing piano and reeds professionally in Chicago.
• Stan Kenton has a hit with Artistry in Rhythm which is based on Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe. A trend to more complex arrangements begins.
• Robert Goffin convinces Esquire editor Arnold Gingrich that a "real" Jazz poll, one in which Coleman Hawkins could win for tenor sax instead of Tex Beneke, is needed. Thus is born the Esquire Jazz Band Poll. At Esquire publisher David Smart's suggestion, a concert performed by the winners will be given at the Metropolitan Opera House on January 18, 1944.
• Louis Armstrong wins the first Esquire Jazz Band Poll for trumpet. Other winners include Coleman Hawkins for tenor sax and Billy Holiday for vocals.
• Pianist Andrew Hill, at age 6, is currently singing and playing accordian in talent shows around chicago.
• Jamaican born pianist Wynton Kelly makes his professional debut at around twelve years of age.
• Pianist Graeme Bell starts a Trad band in Australia.
• Red Norvo switches to vibraphone.
• Bluesman John Lee Hooker arrives in Detroit.

Henri Matisse - Jazz Icarus (1943)





A LIFE magazine cover from about one week before my birth.







More later.

[Enforcer]

Jazzzy, stonemonkts clearly states that female Quebecois born in the years between 1959 and 1961 need to include a recent photograph of themselves wearing a leather mini and go-go boots. Don't worry, you can just edit it right into one of your existing posts and that will take care of it! Thanks.

[Brian Olewnick]

[clinthopson]

I don't think they had digital in 1933.

[Noj]

Bicentennial, baby.

[walto]

Three Queens in mourning, Queen Elizabeth II, her grandmother, Queen Mary and her mother, Queen Elizabeth at the funeral of King George VI.

Postal Stamp Image	:
Stamp Issue Date	:	01/10/1952
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	12.00
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0342
Postal Stamp Name	:	RABINDRANATH
Stamp Information	:	Thou hast made me known to freinds whom I knew not, Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own, Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger. Rabindranath Tagore, poet, dramatist and philosopher is a literary genius of modern India. Among his works, the 'Gitanjali' won him the Noble Prize in 1913. In 'Jana Gana Mana' India's national anthem, the great poet has immortalised himself.

[claude]

1965:

Canada adopts new flag



Police attack civil rights marchers in Selma Alabama:



First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam



Jim Clark wins both the Indy 500 and the Formula 1 championship



Watts Riots



Battle of La Drang



Sandra Bullock was born



Malcolm X died

[Doc Martin]

• The Hard Bop style is emerging via people like drummer Art Blakey and piano player Horace Silver. Blue notes are disappearing from Jazz. They are being replaced by minor notes. For instance, the blue seventh becomes the minor seventh, etc.
• Cool Jazz hits its last peak as saxman Jimmy Giuffre eliminates drums and strong bass altogether giving an implicit beat rather than an explicit beat.
• Charlie Parker performs in public for the last time on March 4 at Birdland.
• Charlie Parker dies of a heart seizure, hemorrhage and general pathetic health on March 12 in NYC in the home of Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter. Most of the major Bebop figures are dead or ineffective (mostly because of heroin).
• Charlie Parker died in front of the TV. He was watching Tommy Dorsey and his band. Charlie's last words are a comment that Dorsey sounded great.
• During the finale of the Charlie Parker Memorial Concert, Monk selects a tune that only he and Dizzy Gillespie are familiar with and Gillespie can't remember it. In the confusion, quick thinking Red Allen does a fast switch to the Blues and saves the moment.
• Monk's Prestige contract is taken over by Riverside. Monk records some Ellington tunes and standards to stop the talk that he can only play his own compositions well.
• Monk's music is starting to be referred to as "zombie music". Even this late, Monk's playing is still often ridiculed.
• Miles Davis hires Coltrane to play tenor sax in his new Hard Bop quintet. Davis actually wants Sonny Rollins, but Rollins is busy kicking his drug habit and doesn't feel ready. The quintet also includes Paul Chambers (bass), Red Garland (piano) and Philly Jo Jones (drums).
• Art Blakey puts together the first of his Jazz Messenger groups featuring Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Doug Watkins on bass, Horace Silver on piano and Blakey on drums. The sound will continue to define Hard Bop.
• Bassist, composer and leader Charlie Mingus begins his period of greatest influence.
• Drummer Kenny Clarke quits the MJQ and moves to Paris.
• Connie Kay replaces Kenny Clarke as drummer for the MJQ. Connie will stay with this extraordinary band until his death.
• Jimmy Smith debuts the Hammond B-3 organ as a Jazz instrument in an organ-guitar-drum trio in Atlantic City. Smith's Hammond will become a Jazz force.
• Pianist Cecil Taylor becomes a major Free Jazz figure way before the time of Free Jazz.
• Gigi Gryce and Art Farmer's quintet becomes a permanent unit now.
• Saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis forms a trio which includes Shirley Scott.
• Tenor sax player Tina Brooks tours with Lionel Hampton.
• Piano player Bud Powell can play well only sporadically now.
• Sonny Rollins joins the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet. Rollins says that Clifford showed him that it is possible to lead a good clean life and still be a good Jazz musician.
• Piano player Herbie Nichols records the first of four sessions for Blue Note. Free Jazz is not far off.
• Archie Shepp begins college.
• Art Tatum gives his last solo performance.
• Artie Shaw gives up music as his career. Artie never played a clarinet in public again.
• Johnny Hodges rejoins the Duke Ellington orchestra. Drummer Sam Woodyard joins the Ellington band.
• Leonard Feather finishes his first Encyclopedia of Jazz.
• Downbeat becomes the most widely read jazz periodical in the U.S. (until 1965).
• James P. Johnson dies.
• Ray Charles does Hallelujah I Love Her So.
• Former Blues guitarist Chuck Berry is playing a new style of guitar which is essentially Blues guitar fused with Country guitar. This is a major innovation and the result is the classic Rock guitar style of such songs as Sweet Little Sixteen which was later borrowed by the Beach Boys for their song Surfin' USA.
• Cecil Taylor makes his recording debut.
• Sun Ra makes his first recordings as a bandleader.

[claude]

The AACM was formed



John Coltrane recorded a ton of records including:

[Rob C]

1970--gee, when I try to think of the major events, the times look pretty dark (until I came along to shine my little light, of course)....