Disneyland opened
James Dean dies in car crash
"Might Mouse" premiered
NORAD tracks Santa on Christmas Eve for the first time

(Damn, I'm old)
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1978
Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, was born.
Pope John Paul, head of the Roman Catholic church for just over a month died. Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was slain in London with an umbrella that carried a poison pellet.
The musical world said goodbye to Keith Moon, Jacques Brel, and – most notoriously of all – Nancy Spungen, who was stabbed to death in the Chelsea hotel in New York by Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.

The Bee Gees continued to dominate the charts thanks to their soundtrack to the previous year's Saturday Night Fever, although Boney M (Rivers of Babylon), Paul McCartney (Mull of Kintyre), and Kate Bush (Wuthering Heights) also found chart success. The Sex Pistols played their last gig together and Rod Stewart asked: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Audiences headed to the cinema to watch Danny Zuko pursue Sandy Olsson in Grease, a goofy reporter from the planet Krypton pursue Lois Lane in Superman.

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Dal Morgoth… the one of the hideous visage... screamed in pain. For one had been born who would shamelessly , unoriginally, match his handle in poems with kissage.

Yea and strange beings with leathery wings took to the air all at once chittering... and thinking "Everyone will probably just think we are bats."

The world kept on turning on its axis, at exactly the same speed, but it did so with a sense of ominous foreboding.

It is said that the universe decreased in temperature by a full degree but this cannot be verified because of a corresponding, cancelling uptick in passion.

Be not afraid ye who share merely the day... but day, hour and year must match for the curse to take full hold. For the destiny that does not release its fell clutches for the briefest of moments. Quote

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