I found this website where you enter the year you were born, and it starts rambeling a bunch of random facts about the year you were born.

link here; http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8l7krX/whathappenedinmybirthyear.com/

And the first things that was given to me, 1996;

Alright nevermind, I couldn't copy it...
Well, let me know if you found something interessting about your birthyear!
I guess one of the most interessting things about mine is that google didn't excist yet.