Things that happened the year Ducky was born:
1.Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins
2.Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC program for the Altair 8800
3.Motorolla obtains patent for the first portable mobile phone
4. The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) and Microsoft becomes a registered trademark
5. BIC launches first disposable Razor
6. Sony introduces Betamax videotapes and Matsushita / JVC introduce VHS
If you need to measure how successful you've been, Tiger Woods and Angelina Jolie were born that year