lol ff, it's a pretty damn good site innit!

say, do you believe in reincarnation?

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http://www.cardamine.net/ - The home of Freelancer: Rebirth, the prequel to Freelancer!

All these things happened and then I came here, and things stopped happening, at least, thats what i heard

Well I don't have to hunt very far - see ff's post, three above.

My gap year in Borneo

Cardamine did my work for me!

I am also from the year of '83
so......

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Events
January - Apple Lisa introduced by Apple Computer.
January 1 - the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
January 19 - Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, is arrested in Bolivia.
January 19 - The Apple Lisa personal computer is announced.
January 22 - Bjorn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
January 26 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
February 16 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
February 23 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
February 24 - A special commission of the United States Congress releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
March 8 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire."
March 23 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
April 7 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
April 25 - Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
May 17 - Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
June 18 - Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
July 7 - Samantha Smith flies to the Soviet Union (see April 25).
July 23 - Gimli Glider: Air Canada flight 143 crash-lands in Gimli, Manitoba.
August 4 - Thomas Sankara become President in Upper Volta.
August 18 - Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
August 21 - Benigno Aquino, Jr, Philippines opposition leader, assassinated in Manila.
September 1 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die.
September 6 - The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
October 12 - Japan's ex Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
October 23 - United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut destroyed by suicide bomber, killing 241.
October 27 - Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Agca in prison to forgive him. Ali Agca is a Turkish gunman, who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
October 25 - United States invades Grenada.
October 30 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
November 2 - Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Barbara McClintock receives Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the first transposons in maize in 1940.
The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people.
Internet Domain Name System invented by Paul Mockapetris.
Democratic reform in power in Argentina.
American Public Radio founded; changes its name to the current Public Radio International in 1994

Year in topic
1983 in film
May 25 - Return of the Jedi
Terms of Endearment
The Big Chill
The Right Stuff
1983 in literature
1983 in music
1983 in sports
March 6 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition
1983 in television
February 28 - Over 125 million Americanss tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H
March 7 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.

Births
May 2 - Rose Falcon, actress/singer
December 30 - Lauren Priest, dietrician/dancer

Deaths
January 23 - George Cukor, director
February 4 - Karen Carpenter, singer, dies of anorexia nervosa
February 12 - Eubie Blake, musician, songwriter
February 25 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
March 3 - Herge, Belgian comics creator
March 8 - William Walton, composer
March 15 - Rebecca West, writer
March 23 - Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient
April 4 - Gloria Swanson, actress
April 22 - Earl 'Fatha' Hines, musician
May 15 - Meyer Lansky, gangster
May 19 - Jean Rey, President of the European Commission
June 12 - Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress
July 23 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
July 29 - Raymond Massey, actor
August 21 - Benigno Aquino Jr, Philippine opposition leader
September 25 - Leopold III of Belgium
October 28 - Otto Messmer, creator of Felix the Cat
November 7 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer
December 2 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress
December 25 - Joan Miro, surrealist painter
Buckminster Fuller, American architect
Stan Rogers, Canadian musician

Nobel Prizes
Physics - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
Chemistry - Henry Taube
Medicine - Barbara McClintock
Literature -William Golding
Peace - Lech Walesa
Economics - Gerard Debreu

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This goes for me too(), But I just saw that I was Born one Day before the Movie Return of The Jedi hit the theatres.
thats right, I was Born 24th of May 1983 in the house where I still live today




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Oh, dear, How sad, Never mind!!-Battery Sergeant Major Williams

'Cos it's strange innit??, whenever you stand in a Library and go AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH,
People stare at you, Whenever you do it in an Aeroplane everyone joins in.. - Tommy Cooper

HAH, '84's best!


Events
January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 22 independent units
January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time.
January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
January 22 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple Computer corporation in a Super Bowl commercial evoking images from George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
February 3 - Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the tenth space shuttle mission.
February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 6 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins See UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)
March 14 - Gerry Adams seriously wounded in an assassination attempt
March 16 - CIA station chief stationed in Beirut, William Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
March 22 - Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California at charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges were later dropped as completely unfounded.
April 4 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 30 - John Turner becomes Canada's seventeenth prime minister.
July 18 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gun-fire killing 21 people before being shot dead by police.
July 21 - In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushes a worker against a safety bar in apparently the first robot-related death in the United States.
July 23 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in "Penthouse" magazine.
July 25 - Salyut 7 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
August 4 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
August 16 - Carmaker John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.
September 5 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
September 17 - Brian Mulroney becomes Canada's eighteenth prime minister.
October 5 - Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
October 11 - Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb.
October 11 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American women to perform a space walk.
October 12 - Brighton bombing (attempt to assassinate the British Cabinet)
October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 innocent Sikhs were killed).
November - Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale in the U.S. presidential election
November 2 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
November 28 - William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States
December 19 - People's Republic of China and United Kingdom signs the Sino-British Joint Declaration which concerns with the future of Hong Kong.
Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles California USA
The influential rap group, the Ultramagnetic MCs, form in the Bronx.
Ethiopian famine begins.
The New International Version of the Bible is published.

Year in topic
1984 in film
Amadeus
Ghost Busters
The Killing Fields
Places in the Heart
May 23 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
1984 in literature
1984 in music
1984 in sports
January 14 - Ray Mancini stops 2 time world champion Bobby Chacon in the third round of a long awaited boxing fight, to retain the WBA's world Lightweight title.
January 22 - Super Bowl XVIII Los Angeles Raiders (38) def. Washington Redskins (9)
January 27 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.
February 8 - 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo
May 19 - The NHL's Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup defeating the New York Islanders 5-2 at Edmonton and ending the Islanders dynasty. The first in Oilers club history and of a new dynasty.
Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California
1984 in television
January 28 - singer Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial
Jeopardy makes it's debut on NBC.
The Cosby Show debuts on NBC.

Births
April 10 - Mandy Moore, singer, actress
April 18 - America Ferrera, actress
August 1 - Alessandra Angleton, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton
August 1 - Nicole Angleton, twin daughter of Robert Angleton and Doris Angleton
September 16 - Prince Harry of Wales, English prince
September 27 - Avril Lavigne, singer
November 9 - Delta Goodrem, actress, singer
November 21 - Jena Malone, actress

Deaths
January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor. Most prominent as Tarzan.
February 9 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
February 15 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress
February 22 - Jessamyn West, writer
March 1 - Jackie Coogan, actor
March 5 - William Powell, actor
March 21 - Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
April 1 - Marvin Gaye, singer
April 22 - Ansel Adams, American photographer
April 26 - Count Basie, musician, composer
May 16 - Andy Kaufman, comedian
May 16 - Irwin Shaw, author
June 26 - Michel Foucault, philosopher
July 8 - Brassaï, photographer
July 26 - Ed Gein, serial killer
September 25 - Walter Pidgeon, actor
October 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician, along with three of the other victims of the Brighton bombing
October 20 - Paul Dirac, physicist
October 21 - François Truffaut, French film director

Nobel Prizes
Physics - Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
Chemistry - Robert Bruce Merrifield
Medicine - Niels K Jerne, Georges JF Köhler, César Milstein
Literature -Jaroslav Seifert
Peace - Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Economics - Richard Stone

Fictional references to the year

George Orwell's dystopian satire Nineteen Eighty-Four about a future totalitarian society was set in this year. The date was chosen by transposing 1948, the year in which Orwell wrote the book. Nineteen Eighty-Four was used as an imaginary year in the future by others as well, much like 1999 and 2001 was.

What a fecking boring thread!....I almost pity it too much to spam on....almost