| Year |
Books & Magazines |
Movies |
TV & Radio |
Music |
Internet |
Deaths |
Historic events |
| 1968 |
The case for De Gaulle: an American viewpoint, City of the Chasch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The High King, The Last Unicorn, The Pigman, A Private Cosmos, Tale of the Troika, The Tripods |
2001:
A Space Odyssey, Coogan's
Bluff, Planet of the Apes |
The Avengers, Columbo, Dragnet, Get Smart, Lost in Space, The Prisoner, Star Trek |
Arlo, At Folsom Prison, The Beatles, "Both Sides Now", "Classical Gas",
"Hey Jude", "Mr Bojangles", "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun", "Sympathy For The Devil", Village Green Preservation Society,"The Weight", "What A Wonderful World" |
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Anthony Boucher, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin
Luther King, Jr., Mervyn Peake
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April 1968 lunar eclipse,
Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech: 04/20, Les événements de mai, Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: 08/20-21,
Nixon, Humphrey, Wallace, Apollo
8: 12/21-27, Pueblo crew released: 12/23 |
| 1969 |
The book of imaginary beings, The Philosopher's Stone, Slaughterhouse-Five, Ubik |
The Bridge at Remagen, Support Your Local Sheriff, La voie lactée |
Doctor Who - Third Doctor, Monty Python's Flying Circus |
Abbey Road, Arthur (or the Decline and Fall of the British
Empire), Tommy, Yellow Submarine |
The ARPAnet Is Born |
Mary Jo Kopechne, Sharon Tate, John Kennedy Toole, Moise Tshombe |
President Charles de Gaulle resigns: 4/28, Cuyahoga River fire: 6/22, Apollo 11: 7/16-24, Woodstock: 8/15-18, Bloodless coup in Libya: 9/1 |
| 1970 |
Lost Continents, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Nine Princes in Amber |
Patton |
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"Into The Mystic", Jesus Christ Superstar, "Long As I Can See The Light", "My Sweet Lord", "Sweet Jane", Tea For The Tillerman, This Time Tomorrow |
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Charles de Gaulle, António Salazar |
Biafra war ends: 1/15 |
| 1971 |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Peculiar Exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes, The Savage God, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
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A Clockwork Orange, Dirty Harry, Harold and Maude, Support Your Local Gunfighter |
Columbo |
"City Of New Orleans", Muswell Hillbillies, Teaser And The Firecat |
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Louis Armstrong, John W. Campbell, Jr. |
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| 1972 |
The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2nd ed., 8th printing), Le città invisibili, No Longer on the Map, Squawwwk!, Watership Down |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds The Godfather, |
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"Celluloid Heroes", "If You Don't Know Me By Now", "I Can See Clearly Now", "Someday Never Comes", "Walk On The Wild Side" |
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Nixon v. McGovern |
| 1973 |
The Ascent of Man, Le Camp des saints, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers |
Enter the Dragon, Soylent Green |
Harry O |
The Dark Side of the Moon, "I Got a Name", Preservation Act I, "Shambala" |
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Leo Strauss, J.R.R. Tolkien |
The Yom Kippur War: 10/6-25 |
| 1974 |
Butcher’s Moon, The Cyberiad, Fletch, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
Blazing Saddles, Dark Star, Steppenwolf, The Taking of Pelham 123, Zardoz |
Doctor Who - Fourth Doctor, Kolchak:
The Night Stalker, A Prairie Home Companion, The
Rockford Files |
"Lonely People" |
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Kurt Wiese |
2-3-74, Carnation Revolution: 4/25, Nixon resigns: 8/8 |
| 1975 |
Grimus, The Star Diaries |
Jaws |
Barney Miller, Dr. Madblood, Saturday
Night Live |
"Bohemian Rhapsody", "Oh What A Night", "Take It To The Limit" |
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James Blish, Francisco Franco, Arnold J. Toynbee |
Fall
of Saigon: 4/29-30, Mayaguez
Incident: 5/12-15 |
| 1976 |
Howard The Duck, How to Make Yourself Miserable, The Sins of the Fathers |
The Bad News Bears, The Big Bus, Rocky, Silver Streak, Taxi
Driver |
The Muppet Show, Quincy M.E., SCTV, Wonder Woman |
"Don't Cry Out Loud", "Don't Fear the Reaper", "Fernando", Warren Zevon, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" |
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Carter v. Ford |
| 1977 |
Cerebus, Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats, The Dragons of Eden, The German Wars, 1914-1945, Isaac Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine, Midnight at the Well of Souls, The Silmarillion |
A
Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Le Crabe-tambour, The Mouse and His Child, Starship Invasions, Star
Wars |
Soldier's Home |
Before and After Science,"Come Sail Away", "Dust in the wind","Give a Little Bit", "Margaritaville", "Solsbury Hill", Stranger, "We Are The Champions" |
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| 1978 |
And having writ..., The Stand |
Attack
of the Killer Tomatoes, The
End, Every Which Way But Loose, Watership
Down, The Wild Geese |
Connections, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Quark, WKRP
in Cincinnati |
Excitable Boy, "Follow You Follow Me", "The Gambler", Son of a Son of a Sailor, "Still the Same" |
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Paul VI & John Paul I, Edmund Crispin, Hope Mirrlees, Eric Frank Russell |
Jonestown: 11/18 |
| 1979 |
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, Atheism: The Case Against God, Broca's Brain, Shikasta |
Americathon, Apocalypse
Now, Being There, Mad
Max, Meatballs, The
Warriors |
The Wild Wild West Revisited |
Fear Of Music, "The Logical Song", Low Budget, "Video Killed the Radio Star", The Wall |
|
Richard C. Meredith |
fall of Rhodesia: 06/01, Nicaragua: 7/16-19, Panama Canal Zone: 10/01, U.S. embassy in Iran: 11/04, Afghanistan: 12/25-27 |
| 1980 |
A Confederacy of Dunces, Still Life with Woodpecker, Sundiver |
Airplane!, The
Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Little
Miss Marker, My Bodyguard, The Ninth Configuration |
Cosmos, Fridays, It's About Time,
The Lathe of Heaven, Magnum,
P.I., Yes Minister |
"Ace Of Spades", "Against the Wind",
Cosmos theme, "Let My Love Open The Door", "The Rose" |
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David Janssen, John Lennon |
Fall of Liberia: 4/12, Operation Eagle Claw: 4/24, Iraq invades Iran: 9/22, Reagan v. Carter |
| 1981 |
Cities of the Red Night, The Nine Nations of North America |
Arthur, Escape
from New York, Raiders of the Lost Ark,
Scanners,
Stripes,
Time
Bandits |
The Greatest American Hero,
Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders, Hill
Street Blues, MTV, Simon & Simon, The Wave |
"Bette Davis Eyes", "Better Things", "Dancing With Myself", "Don't Stop Believin'", "Doors Of Your Heart", Give The People What They Want, "Limelight", Give The People What They Want, Love over Gold, Mistaken Identity, "Only A Dream Away", "Rudie Can't Fail", "Watching the Wheels", "Who Can It Be Now?" |
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Frances Yates |
Reagan shot: 3/30, Pope shot: 5/13 |
| 1982 |
Alexander Hamilton, The Gunslinger, The Elfin Ship, Ham on Rye, The Nomad of Time |
Eating
Raoul, First Blood, My Favorite Year, Young Doctors in Love |
Cheers, Q.E.D., Remington
Steele, Square Pegs, The Young Ones |
"Blister in the Sun", "Come On Eileen!", "Hungry like the wolf", "I Melt With You", Love Over Gold, "Our House", "Rock the Casbah", "Southern Cross", "Under Pressure" |
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Philip K. Dick, Ayn Rand |
The Tylenol murders begin: 9/29 |
| 1983 |
The Colour of Magic, The Four Lords of the Diamond, King of the Wood, The Starship and the Canoe, The Truth about the Neutron Bomb |
The Dresser, High Road to China, The
Meaning of Life, Utu |
The A-Team, Black Adder, Thistle &
Shamrock |
"99 Luftballons", "Eyes Without A Face", "Here Comes The Rain Again", "Leave A Tender Moment Alone", State Of Confusion, "Sweet Dreams", "Total Eclipse of the Heart" |
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Eric
Hoffer |
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| 1984 |
The Helix and the Sword |
Beverly Hills Cop, Ghost Busters, The Karate Kid, Repo Man, Romancing the Stone, Sixteen Candles, The Terminator |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Nadia, You Can't Take It with You |
"Coming Back to You", "If it be Your will", Once in a Lifetime, "One Night in Bangkok", Word Of Mouth |
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Third Turning, Reagan v. Mondale, Bernhard Goetz Incident: 12/22 |
| 1985 |
Ender's Game |
Back to the Future, Better Off Dead, Brazil, Rambo:
First Blood Part II |
Moonlighting |
Brothers In Arms, "In between days", "Take On Me", "These Dreams, "La Vie Dansante" |
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| 1986 |
Four Complete Novels / Trevanian, Homunculus, The Patriot Game |
'Crocodile' Dundee, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, F/X, The Golden Child, Highlander, Jake
Speed, Running Scared, Stand by Me, Twisted |
Flashback! with
Bill St. James, The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
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Jorge Luis Borges |
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| 1987 |
The Closing of the American Mind, Language in the Americas |
Hellraiser, Robocop |
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The Joshua Tree |
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James Burnham |
Ronald Reagan: 'Tear Down this Wall' 6/15 |
| 1988 |
|
Rambo
III |
Red Dwarf |
"I'm gonna be (500 miles)", I'm Your Man |
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Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak |
Bush v. Dukakis |
| 1989 |
Albion's Seed, Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Destructive Generation, Foucault's Pendulum, Subterranean Worlds |
The 'burbs, Far
from Home, Field of Dreams, Heathers, Pink Cadillac, Say
Anything |
The Simpsons |
"End Of The Line", "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
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Tiananmen Massacre: 6/4, Berlin
Wall torn down: 11/9 |
| 1990 |
|
Cool Blue, Edward Scissorhands, Joe
Versus the Volcano, Miami Blues, Mister Frost, Pump
Up the Volume |
The Civil War, Law & Order, Twin Peaks |
"Cradle Of Love", "Lorca's Novena" |
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| 1991 |
Generations, Leaving Las Vegas, Native Tongue,
A Soldier of the Great War |
Final Approach, F/X2,Hudson
Hawk, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The
Rapture, Zeram |
The Red Green Show |
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The World Wide Web Is Developed |
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Gulf
War: 1/16-3/3, end of Yugoslavia (6/25) and USSR (12/25) |
| 1992 |
The Black Echo, Our Country |
The Waterdance |
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The Future |
|
Isaac Asimov, Fritz Hayek |
First definitive detection of exoplanets: 4/21, Ruby Ridge: 8/21, Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object 1992 QB1: 8/30, Clinton, Bush, Perot |
| 1993 |
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, Dreamsicle |
Jurassic Park |
The X-Files |
"Come to my Window", "Fields of Gold", "The River of Dreams" |
|
Keith Laumer |
Waco massacre: 4/19 |
| 1994 |
The Camp of the Saints, The Physics of Immortality, Watch the Skies! |
In the Mouth of Madness, The Professional, Stargate |
The Critic, High
Tide, Touched by an Angel |
Shape of my Heart |
|
Robert Bloch, John O'Brien |
Calif. Proposition 187, Did the 1994 Elections Bring on a Political
Realignment? |
| 1995 |
1939, Alien Nation, The End of Racism, The Next American Nation, Stormy Weather
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12 Monkeys, Coldblooded,
Leaving
Las Vegas, Unstrung Heroes |
American Experience, Unhappily Ever After |
Animusic, "Days Like This", "How Bizarre", "Walking in Memphis" |
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia,
WWWF Grudge
Match |
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Oklahoma City bombing: 4/19 |
| 1996 |
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of
World Order |
Bed of Roses, Broken
Arrow, Executive Decision, Fargo, Happy Gilmore |
F/X, Millennium, Profiler, Profit, Psi
Factor, Two |
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Evil Overlord List, Flying Moose of Nargothrond, Mark Rosenfelder's Metaverse, Planet Egomania |
Carl Sagan |
Proposition
209 (California Civil Rights Initiative), Clinton, Dole, Perot |
| 1997 |
Comeback, Drawing Life, Hamilton's Republic, Killing Floor, Out of America, Promised Land, Crusader State, The Sense of Reality |
Grosse Pointe Blank, Playing
God |
Intensity, King of the Hill, Murder Call, South
Park, Stargate SG-1, Uncommon
Knowledge |
"Angel", Karma |
The Laissez Faire Electronic Times |
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| 1998 |
The Great Betrayal |
The
Big Lebowski, Dark City, Saving
Private Ryan, The
Wedding Singer, The X-Files |
Brimstone, Da
Vinci's Inquest, Seven
Days |
Paris Combo |
|
Harold Keith, Enoch Powell |
Landslide Victory for Proposition 227 in
California: 6/5, Clinton
Impeached: 12/9 |
| 1999 |
Hearts in Atlantis, Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer, A Republic, Not an Empire |
Blast from the Past, Payback, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut |
Family Guy, Futurama, Harsh
Realm, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
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Family Circus Parody Folds Tent, VDARE.com
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| 2000 |
From the Corner of his Eye |
The Kid, Saving
Grace, Unbreakable |
CSI, Gormenghast, Malcolm in the Middle, Maximum
Exposure, Murder Rooms, Raid |
"Ourselves to Know", "Solitary Man" |
Spengler |
L. Sprague de Camp, John Sladek |
Bush v. Gore |
| 2001 |
The Death of the West, Special Providence, American Gods |
Hearts
in Atlantis, Serendipity |
24, Jazz, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Lone
Gunmen, The
Oblongs |
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Little Green Footballs, Laissez Firearm Eheu fugaces! |
Douglas
Adams, Mortimer J. Adler, Gordon
R. Dickson, Joseph Greenberg, George Harrison, Timothy McVeigh, Mark Penman |
9/11, Battle of Afghanistan: 10/7 |
| 2002 |
The Golden Age, The
Salmon Of Doubt |
El Alamein |
CSI: Miami, John Doe, Monk,
The
Shield, Without a Trace |
"I Shall Not Walk Alone", The Last DJ, "The Man Comes Around", "The Rising", "She Will Be Loved" |
the dissident frogman, IMAO, Lonewacko, The Long View, View from the Right, The War Nerd |
George Alec Effinger, Pim Fortuyn, Alec Campbell |
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| 2003 |
Parasites Like Us |
Master
and Commander, Raid |
Two and a Half Men, Cold
Case, NCIS |
"Are You Sure?", "Hurt", "Keep Me in Your Heart" |
American Digest, Gates of Vienna, John C. Wright's Journal, The Sneeze, Zacht Ei |
Herb Gardner, Warren
Zevon, Paul Zindel
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Battle of Iraq: 3/19 |
| 2004 |
The Girl Watchers Club, Pandora's Star, Who Are We |
Miracle, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Team
America: World Police |
CSI: NY, Lost,
House,
Stargate:
Atlantis |
"Collide", "Numa Numa" |
American Future, The Diplomad, EUReferendum |
Ronald Reagan, Theo van Gogh |
11 March 2004 Madrid attacks, Bush v. Kerry |
| 2005 |
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, The Last Guardian of Everness, Orphans of Chaos |
The Ice Harvest, Joyeux Noel |
Bones, The Closer, Criminal Minds, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Numb3rs [sic] |
"Bad Day", "Get To Me", "Nothing But The Wheel" |
Apathy Curve |
Johnny Carson, Jack
L. Chalker, Andrea Dworkin ["Ding, dong, the witch is dead!"], John Paul II, Hunter S. Thompson, Trevanian |
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| 2006 |
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, Sailing from Byzantium, Wild Fire |
Pan's Labyrinth, Silent Hill |
Heroes |
"Chasing Cars" |
Attack
Cartoons |
Stanislaw Lem, Joseph Stefano |
Montenegro declares independence: 06/04, Pluto Demoted: 08/24, Norks go nuclear: 10/09 |
| 2007 |
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Martian Child, Next |
The Big Bang Theory |
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Unqualified Reservations |
Lloyd Alexander, Ian Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Boris Yeltsin |
U.S., European powers recognize Kosovo: 2/18 |
| 2008 |
Dirty Money |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Soviet Story, The X Files: I Want to Believe |
The Mentalist |
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Whiskey's Place |
William F. Buckley Jr., Arthur C Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Donald Westlake |
Obama v. McCain |
| 2009 |
Relentless |
2012 |
Castle, Lie to Me, SGU Stargate Universe |
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John Hughes |
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| 2010 |
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child |
Cop Out, Inception, Red |
The Glades, Justified, Rizzoli & Isles, Sherlock |
"Ain't No Grave" |
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Stephen J. Cannell |
Colorado Gubernatorial Election, Congressional Election, "Arab Spring" begins |
| 2011 |
After America |
Colombiana, Paul |
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Russell Hoban |
V-OBL Day, 5/2 South Sudan secedes, July 9 London race riots, 8/6-10 |
| 2012 |
Coming Apart, The Righteous Mind |
Looper, Ruby Sparks |
Elementary |
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Ray Bradbury, Carol Kendall, John J. Reilly |
Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, 6/5; Apparatchik vs. Plutocrat |
| 2013 |
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Motive, Zero Hour |
"Nothing More" |
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Lawrence Auster, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance |
Boston Marathon bombings, 4/15 |
| 2014 |
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Fargo, True Detective |
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Pete Seeger |
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