1837-1901: |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 40 |
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1857-1866: |  |  |  | Transatlantic cable laid from before birth until age 5 |
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1861: |  |  |  | Colorado organized as a territory at age 0 |
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1861-1865: |  |  |  | Civil War from age 0 to age 4 |
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1861-1865: |  |  |  | Abraham Lincoln president of US from age 0 to age 4 |
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1861: |  |  |  | Gold rush in New Zealand at age 0 |
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1861: |  |  |  | Kansas enters the union - 34th at age 0 |
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1861: |  |  |  | Transcontinental Telegraph completed at age 0 |
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1861: |  |  |  | The Apache Declare War on the US at age 0 |
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1861-1865: |  |  |  | Confederate States of America Exist from age 0 to age 4 |
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1861: |  |  |  | Nevada organized as a territory at age 0 |
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1861: |  |  |  | South Dakota organized as a territory at age 0 |
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1861: |  |  |  | North Dakota organized as a territory at age 0 |
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1862: |  |  |  | US Homestead act at age 1 |
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1863-1879: |  |  |  | 4th Cholera pandemic from age 2 to age 18 |
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1863: |  |  |  | West Virginia enters the union - 35th at age 2 |
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1863: |  |  |  | Arizona organized as a territory at age 2 |
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1863: |  |  |  | Emancipation Proclamation frees southern slaves at age 2 |
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1863: |  |  |  | Battle of Gettysburg at age 2 |
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1863: |  |  |  | Idaho organized as a territory at age 2 |
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1864: |  |  |  | Nevada enters the union - 36th at age 3 |
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1864: |  |  |  | Louisiana organized as a territory at age 3 |
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1865: |  |  |  | Lister invents Disinfection at age 4 |
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1865: |  |  |  | Ku Klux Klan founded at age 4 |
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1865: |  |  |  | President Lincoln assassinated at age 4 |
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1866-1868: |  |  |  | Andrew Johnson president of US from age 5 to age 7 |
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1866: |  |  |  | Walker, Mitchell 1st elected US black officials (Massachusetts) at age 5 |
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1867: |  |  |  | Nebraska enters the union - 37th at age 6 |
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1867: |  |  |  | Diamonds discovered in South Africa at age 6 |
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1867: |  |  |  | Confederation of Canada at age 6 |
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1867: | |
1867: |  |  |  | Alaska purchased from Russia at age 6 |
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1868-1878: |  |  |  | War between Cuba and Spain from age 7 to age 17 |
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1869: |  |  |  | Cutty Sark built at age 8 |
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1869: |  |  |  | Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 8 |
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1869: |  |  |  | Trans-continental railroad completed at age 8 |
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1869-1876: |  |  |  | Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 8 to age 15 |
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1869: |  |  |  | Suez canal opened at age 8 |
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1870: |  |  |  | 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 9 |
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1870: |  |  |  | US black men can vote at age 9 |
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1870-1871: |  |  |  | Franco-Prussian war from age 9 to age 10 |
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1871: |  |  |  | Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 10 |
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1873-1878: |  |  |  | Depression, banks fail from age 12 to age 17 |
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1873: |  |  |  | Color Photographs at age 12 |
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1876: |  |  |  | American Centennial at age 15 |
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1876: |  |  |  | Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 15 |
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1876: |  |  |  | Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 15 |
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1876: |  |  |  | Little Big Horn - Battle at age 15 |
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1877-1880: |  |  |  | Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 16 to age 19 |
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1877: |  |  |  | Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 16 |
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1878: |  |  |  | 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 17 |
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1879: |  |  |  | Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 18 |
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1879: | |
1881-1896: |  |  |  | 5th Cholera pandemic from age 20 to age 35 |
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1881: |  |  |  | James A Garfield president of US at age 20 |
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1881-1885: |  |  |  | Chester Arthur president of US from age 20 to age 24 |
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1881: |  |  |  | President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 20 |
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1884: | |
1884: | |
1885-1888: |  |  |  | Grover Cleveland president of US from age 24 to age 27 |
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1885: | |
1886: |  |  |  | Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 25 |
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1887: |  |  |  | X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 26 |
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1888: |  |  |  | 70...77 rpm musical records at age 27 |
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1888: |  |  |  | Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 27 |
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1889: |  |  |  | Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 28 |
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1889: |  |  |  | Montana enters the union - 41st at age 28 |
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1889: |  |  |  | Holerith invents the punch card at age 28 |
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1889: |  |  |  | North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 28 |
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1889-1892: |  |  |  | Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 28 to age 31 |
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1889: |  |  |  | South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 28 |
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1890: |  |  |  | Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 29 |
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1890: |  |  |  | Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 29 |
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1890: |  |  |  | Battle of Wounded Knee at age 29 |
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1890: |  |  |  | Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 29 |
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1891: |  |  |  | Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 30 |
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1893-1896: |  |  |  | Grover Cleveland president of US from age 32 to age 35 |
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1893: |  |  |  | New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 32 |
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1893: |  |  |  | Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 32 |
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1893: | |
1893-1897: |  |  |  | US Financial panic, depression from age 32 to age 36 |
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1894-1895: |  |  |  | Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 33 to age 34 |
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1894: |  |  |  | Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 33 |
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1896: |  |  |  | Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 35 |
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1896: |  |  |  | Utah enters the union - 45th at age 35 |
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1897-1901: |  |  |  | William McKinley president of US from age 36 to age 40 |
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1898: |  |  |  | Spanish American 1-year war at age 37 |
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1899-1902: |  |  |  | Boer war from age 38 to age 41 |
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1899-1923: |  |  |  | 6th Cholera pandemic from age 38 to age 62 |
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1900: |  |  |  | Boxer rebellion in China at age 39 |
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1900: |  |  |  | Hawaii organized as a territory at age 39 |
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1900: |  |  |  | Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 39 |
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1901: |  |  |  | Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 40 |
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1901: |  |  |  | US President William McKinley assassinated at age 40 |
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1901-1910: |  |  |  | Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 40 to age 49 |
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1901-1908: |  |  |  | Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 40 to age 47 |
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1901: |  |  |  | First British submarine launched at age 40 |
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1901: |  |  |  | Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 40 |
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1901: |  |  |  | Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 40 |
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1901: |  |  |  | Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 40 |
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1903: |  |  |  | Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 42 |
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1903: | |
1904: | |
1904-1905: |  |  |  | Russian-Japanese war from age 43 to age 44 |
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1907: | |
1907: |  |  |  | Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 46 |
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1908: |  |  |  | Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 47 |
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1909-1912: |  |  |  | William Howard Taft president of US from age 48 to age 51 |
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1909: |  |  |  | North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 48 |
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1909: |  |  |  | Union of South Africa formed at age 48 |
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1910-1936: |  |  |  | Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 49 to age 75 |
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1910: | |
1910: |  |  |  | Japan annexes Korea at age 49 |
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1911: |  |  |  | South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 50 |
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1912: | |
1912: |  |  |  | Alaska organized as a territory at age 51 |
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1912: |  |  |  | Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 51 |
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1912: |  |  |  | New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 51 |
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1913-1920: |  |  |  | Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 52 to age 59 |
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1914: | |
1914-1919: |  |  |  | World War I from age 53 to age 58 |
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1915: |  |  |  | Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 54 |
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1916: |  |  |  | Irish Easter Rebellion at age 55 |
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1916: | |
1917: | |
1917: |  |  |  | Russian revolution at age 56 |
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1918-1933: |  |  |  | Prohibition from age 57 to age 72 |
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1918-1920: |  |  |  | Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 57 to age 59 |
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1919: |  |  |  | League of Nations instantiated at age 58 |
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1919: |  |  |  | Shortwave Radio at age 58 |
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1920-1929: |  |  |  | Roaring 20's from age 59 to age 68 |
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1920: |  |  |  | Women receive right to vote in USA at age 59 |
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1920: |  |  |  | Palestine established at age 59 |
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1921-1924: |  |  |  | Warren G Harding president of US from age 60 to age 63 |
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1922: |  |  |  | Insulin made available to diabetics at age 61 |
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1925-1928: |  |  |  | Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 64 to age 67 |
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1925: |  |  |  | Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 64 |
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1926: |  |  |  | Sound in Movies at age 65 |
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1927: |  |  |  | 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 66 |
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1927: |  |  |  | Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 66 |
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1928: | |
1928: |  |  |  | Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 67 |
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1928: |  |  |  | Video Recordings at age 67 |
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1928: | |
1929-1932: |  |  |  | Herbert Hoover president of US from age 68 to age 71 |
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1929-1939: |  |  |  | Great Depression from age 68 to age 78 |
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1929: |  |  |  | Stock Market Crash at age 68 |
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1930: |  |  |  | Pluto Discovered at age 69 |
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1931-1933: |  |  |  | Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 70 to age 72 |
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1933: |  |  |  | Radio Astronomy at age 72 |
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1933: |  |  |  | Soviet communist party purge at age 72 |
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1933: |  |  |  | Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 72 |
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1933-1945: |  |  |  | Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 72 to age 84 |
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1934: |  |  |  | Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 73 |
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1935: | |
1935-1936: |  |  |  | Abyssinian war from age 74 to age 75 |
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1936-1952: |  |  |  | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 75 to age 91 |
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1936: |  |  |  | Spanish Civil War at age 75 |
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1936: |  |  |  | Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 75 |
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1936: | |
1937-1945: |  |  |  | Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 76 to age 84 |
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1937: |  |  |  | Nylon (by DuPont) at age 76 |
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1938: |  |  |  | Germany annexes Austria at age 77 |
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1939: |  |  |  | Digital Computer at age 78 |
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1939-1945: |  |  |  | World War II from age 78 to age 84 |
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1939: |  |  |  | Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 78 |
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1940: |  |  |  | 1st black general in US army at age 79 |
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1940: |  |  |  | Color Television at age 79 |
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1941-1945: |  |  |  | Manhattan Project from age 80 to age 84 |
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1942: |  |  |  | Nuclear Reactor at age 81 |
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1942: |  |  |  | Magnetic Recording Tape at age 81 |
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1945-1952: |  |  |  | Harry S Truman president of US from age 84 to age 91 |
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1945: |  |  |  | US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 84 |
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1945: | |
1945: |  |  |  | United Nations formed at age 84 |
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1946: | |
1946-1989: |  |  |  | The Cold War from age 85 until after line end |
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1947: | |
1947: |  |  |  | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 86 |
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1947: |  |  |  | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 86 |
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1948: |  |  |  | Israel inaugurated as state at age 87 |
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1948: |  |  |  | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 87 |
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1948: | |
1948: |  |  |  | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 87 |
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1949: |  |  |  | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 88 |
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1949: |  |  |  | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 88 |
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1949: |  |  |  | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 88 |
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1950: |  |  |  | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 89 |
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1950-1953: |  |  |  | Korean War from age 89 to age 92 |
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1950-1954: |  |  |  | McCarthyism from age 89 to age 93 |
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1950: |  |  |  | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 89 |
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1951: |  |  |  | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 90 |
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1952-2050: |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 91 until after line end |
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1952: |  |  |  | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 91 |
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1953-1960: |  |  |  | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 92 to age 99 |
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1954: |  |  |  | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 93 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Invention of Velcro at age 94 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 94 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 94 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Warsaw pact formed at age 94 |
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1956: |  |  |  | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 95 |
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1957: |  |  |  | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 96 |
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1958: |  |  |  | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 97 |
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1958: |  |  |  | US space agency (NASA) established at age 97 |
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1958: |  |  |  | Integrated Circuit at age 97 |
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1958: |  |  |  | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 97 |
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1959: |  |  |  | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 98 |
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1959: |  |  |  | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 98 |
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1959: |  |  |  | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 98 |
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1960: | |
1960: | |
1960: |  |  |  | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 99 |
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1960: |  |  |  | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 99 |
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1961: |  |  |  | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 100 |
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1961-1963: |  |  |  | John F Kennedy president of US from age 100 until after line end |
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1961-1970: |  |  |  | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 100 until after line end |
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1961: |  |  |  | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 100 |
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