h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Elvis
The Moon Landing
The Hubble Telescope

I will think of more but I am about to be kicked offline.

From an old fogey

Hello Galaxy, those are great things to add to the list and also things another "old fogey" can appreciate!

Hiya

How about:

Books - The Wizard of Oz, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Catch-22, The Cider House Rules.

Music - (Whose that guy that did Minny the Moocher?), Frank Sinatra, (Elvis has already been mentioned) Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, and even - yes, the queen of pop herself - Madonna

Movies (or should I say films?) - Anyone heard of DW Griffiths?, The Jazz singer (silent movies are all well and good, but where would the modern audience be without dialogue?), High Noon, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, On the Waterfront, Bullit, Planet of the Apes (no, not the T Burton job), The Sting, Jaws,

Television - Those Flash Gordon Saturday morning serials, Rawhide, Mission Impossible, The Invaders, The Sopranos

Plenty of good stuff coming back to Britain, ASFIAC

Great additions all.

Cab Calloway sang Minnie the Moocher

IRL I have the same initials as DW Griffith and have seen his "Birth of a Nation" in college.

But you didn't name Bill Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes (I assume you named yourself after Calvin's alterego Spaceman Spiff)

Thanks again!

Hiya

Oh yes, an extra special THANKYOU for C & H!