MEME: Saturday Six -- Episode 146

Here's another edition that relates to a theme: this time, it's the year you were born. I know, I know, you don't remember much from that year, right? No problem. At the Saturday Six, we're here to help.

We had lots of players last week, but it was Antonette of "Jottings From Jersey" was first to play last week. Congratulations, Antonette!

Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Take the quiz: (LINK FIXED!) What happened the year that you were born?

In the year you were born...

Harry Truman is president of the US Masked bandits steal $2.8 million from Brink's in Boston 35 US military advisers are sent to South Vietnam to aid the anti-Communist government US Senator Joe McCarthy begins his crusade against suspected Communists in the US government North Korea invades South Korea President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races Peter Gabriel, Jay Leno, Bill Murray, and Stevie Wonder are born New York Yankees win the World Series Cleveland Browns win the NFL championship Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup I, Robot by Isaac Asimov is published

What Happened the Year You Were Born?

2. Of the events mentioned, which would you most liked to have witnessed in person?
Nothing tickles my fancy...
3. Of the people mentioned, who would you most like to meet in person?
Harry Truman
4. Of the people mentioned, who would you least like to meet in person?
Joe McCarthy
5. Which of the events do you think had the most profound effect on history?
The program to develop the hydrogen bomb...
6. Which of the events do you think contributed the most to our culture?

If one assumes the move to send advisors to Vietnam is the opening salvo in our involvement in the war to come in Vietnam, then that has had the greatest impact in the short-term. Only time will tell whether the changes that occurred in the world as a result of the social upheaval that conflict inspired have any lasting impact.