39 Years Of Things That Have Happened Since We Last Won At Old Trafford

Old foes Newcastle United and Manchester United are set to renew their hostilities this weekend at Old Trafford. The clubs will meet for the 154th time with Manchester United having a commanding 78-36-39 advantage in the all time record. Newcastle's futility in the fixture is an idea that is on many peoples' lips this weekend, but for a slightly different reason. The last time Newcastle defeated the Red Devils on their own pitch was February 12, 1972. . . Thirty-nine years ago.

A User's Guide to Things That Have Happened Since Newcastle United Last Won At Old Trafford

• The Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games
• The World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the world.
• West Germany won the 1974 World Cup
• The film of The Who's Tommy is released.
• The Concorde entered service, cutting trans-atlantic flight time to 3.5 hours
• The world's first Apple IIe computers are released
• Jonestown occurred.
• Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister.
• The Miracle on Ice happened.
• MTV was launched
• Vangelis was awesome.
• This happened.
• Band Aid was conceived and executed.
• This was amazingly awesome or amazingly unfortunate. Or both.
• Halley's Comet came back... and went away again.
• Cherry Garcia was introduced to the world.
• "A Brief History Of Time" is published.
• The Berlin Wall came down.
• The Hubble Space Telescope was launched.
• Dinosaurs ruled the TV. Briefly.
• Johnny Carson retired.
• Dinosaurs ruled the movies.
• Eurostar rail service is launched.
• Megan and Morag, the first cloned sheep, enter the world.
• Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov for the first time.
• Scotland established their own Parliament.
• Google is introduced.
• The Euro is introduced.
• Y2K was supposed to cause mass hysteria and random unexplained explosions.
• The World Trade Center was attacked.
• Brazil wins the World Cup. Again. And Ronaldo has a stupid haircut.
• The Concorde makes its last flight.
• SpaceShipOne becomes first privately owned craft to achieve space flight.
• XBox 360 is released to North America.
• The one billionth song is downloaded from iTunes.
• New Wembley stadium is completed.
• Fidel Castro steps down from power.
• The less said about 2009, the better.
• This was pretty good in 2010. . .