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In 1961 (the year you were born)

John F. Kennedy becomes president of the US An estimated 1200 anti-Castro exiles aided by the US make a failed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first US spaceman rocketing 118 miles above the earth Hurricane "Carla" wipes out Texas gulf cities, claiming 46 lives Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned space flight Wayne Gretzky, Henry Rollins, Fabio, George Clooney, Dennis Rodman, and Diana, Princess of Wales are born New York Yankees win the World series Green Bay Packers win the NFL championship Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians is the top grossing film Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is published The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single

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They missed the commissioning of the Parkes Radio Telescope.

And who is Wayne Gretzky?

Comments

[jamesb]

Nobody important unless you follow Ice Hockey.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[chezmax]

Wayne Gretzky is one of the most famous professional hockey players, and was an icon for many a child growing up. He's also Canadian. He's since moved on and does a lot of charity work now.

[ngarewyrd.livejournal.com]

it's very, Americanised.. isn't it? =8P

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Wayne Gretzky was our Chief of Security (http://www.apeiros.com/~tcg/tcg2/writers.html).

[beki.livejournal.com]

Wayne Gretzky was (is) a hockey player. Being as I dont follow hockey, I assume that he was famous for keeping all of his teeth :)

[trpeal.livejournal.com]

It is awfully North American-centric, so you really shouldn't know who Wayne Gretzky is, unless you followed ice hockey. But, he is the greatest man to ever play the sport (http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=p199901&type=Player&page=statsawards&list=ByName#photo). He holds every scoring record in the National Hockey League, most of which won't be broken in the forseeable future.

Not that you should care. It's not rugby, after all.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Feh. He never played for the Wallabies or All Blacks. That makes him a minor celebrity (along with O J Simpson, who also apparently played a sport when he wasn't in Police Squad.)