Welcome to October which just so happens to also be the month where I celebrate a birthday. This year I decided to take a look back at the past few years and see what happened when I was ___.
When I was 25 years old:
- President Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term
- The Comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth
- A Pegasus rocket carried the remains of 24 people into earth orbit for the first space burial
- Bloomsbury Publishing published JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone
- NASA’s Pathfinder space probe landed on the surface of Mars
- Steve Jobs returned to Apple Computer, Inc
- Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident
- Ben and Jerry’s introduced Phish Food, a new flavor of ice cream named after the rock group Phish
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted on the WB
- Stargate: SG1 debuted on Showtime’s SciFirday
- South Park debuted on Comedy Central
- George Lucas released the 20th Anniversary Editions of the original Star Wars movies
- Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace began production
- Titanic ruled the movie theaters (I still haven’t been forced to watch it)
- Men in Black, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Lost World & The Fifth Element all his movie screens
~P
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Titanic was actually pretty good. Though the ending was…well…just pure melodrama and without sense.
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