Thought for the Day

We must try to put ourselves inside their skin and look at us through their eyes, just to understand the thoughts that lie behind their decisions and their actions.

-- The Fog of War, on empathizing with the enemy

Generation Gap

Where were you when:

1. King George VI died (1952)?
2. Sputnik 1 was launched (1957)?
3. Aguero fled Cuba, allowing Castro to take power (1959)?
4. the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle took place (1962)?
5. the Profumo Affair broke (1963)?
6. the Six Day War involving Israel and its Arab neighbours happened (1967)?
7. the October Crisis took place (1970)?
8. Idi Amin ordered the invasion of Tanzania (1978)?
9. Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands (1982)?
10. Indira Ghandi was assassinated (1984)?
11. Bhopal disaster (1984)?
12. Chernobyl disaster (1986)?
13. Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie (1989)?
14. the Berlin Wall came down (1989)?
15. Nelson Mandela was released from jail (1990)?
16. a Russian Coup attempt places Gorbachev under house arrest (1991)?
17. Yugoslavia is broken up into Slovenia and Croatia (1992)?
18. the Ariane 5 self-destructed (1996)?
19. the Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to allow same-sex marriage (2001)?