1936-1952: | | | | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from before birth until age 5 |
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1945-1952: | | | | Harry S Truman president of US from before birth until age 5 |
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1946-1989: | | | | The Cold War from before birth until age 42 |
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1947: | |
1947: | | | | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 0 |
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1947: | | | | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 0 |
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1948: | | | | Israel inaugurated as state at age 1 |
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1948: | |
1948: | | | | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 1 |
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1948: | | | | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 1 |
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1949: | | | | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 2 |
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1949: | | | | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 2 |
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1949: | | | | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 2 |
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1950-1954: | | | | McCarthyism from age 3 to age 7 |
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1950: | | | | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 3 |
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1950: | | | | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 3 |
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1950-1953: | | | | Korean War from age 3 to age 6 |
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1951: | | | | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 4 |
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1952: | | | | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 5 |
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1952-2050: | | | | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 5 until after line end |
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1953-1960: | | | | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 6 to age 13 |
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1954: | | | | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 7 |
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1955: | | | | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 8 |
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1955: | | | | Warsaw pact formed at age 8 |
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1955: | | | | Invention of Velcro at age 8 |
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1955: | | | | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 8 |
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1956: | | | | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 9 |
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1957: | | | | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 10 |
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1958: | | | | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 11 |
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1958: | | | | US space agency (NASA) established at age 11 |
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1958: | | | | Integrated Circuit at age 11 |
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1958: | | | | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 11 |
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1959: | | | | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 12 |
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1959: | | | | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 12 |
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1959: | | | | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 12 |
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1960: | |
1960: | | | | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 13 |
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1960: | | | | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 13 |
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1960: | |
1961-1970: | | | | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 14 to age 23 |
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1961: | | | | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 14 |
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1961-1963: | | | | John F Kennedy president of US from age 14 to age 16 |
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1961: | | | | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 14 |
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1962-1965: | | | | Vatican II from age 15 to age 18 |
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1962: | | | | Cuban missile crisis at age 15 |
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1963: | | | | 1st artificial heart at age 16 |
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1963-1968: | | | | Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 16 to age 21 |
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1963: | | | | Compact Cassette Recordings at age 16 |
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1963: | | | | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 16 |
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1964: | | | | US civil rights bill at age 17 |
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1964-1975: | | | | Vietnam War from age 17 to age 28 |
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1965: | | | | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 18 |
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1965: | | | | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 18 |
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1966: | | | | 8-track tape players at age 19 |
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1966: | | | | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 19 |
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1967: | | | | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 20 |
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1967-1970: | | | | Nigerian civil war from age 20 to age 23 |
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1967: | | | | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 20 |
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1967: | | | | 1st human heart transplant at age 20 |
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1967: | | | | Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 20 |
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1968: | | | | Martin Luther King assassinated at age 21 |
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1968: | | | | Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 21 |
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1969: | | | | Woodstock Music Festival at age 22 |
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1969-1974: | | | | Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 22 to age 27 |
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1969: | | | | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 22 |
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1970: | |
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1971: | | | | Pakistani civil war at age 24 |
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1971: | | | | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 24 |
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1973: | |
1973: | | | | October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 26 |
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1974-1976: | | | | Gerald Ford president of US from age 27 to age 29 |
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1974: | | | | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 27 |
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1975: | | | | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 28 |
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1975: | | | | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 28 |
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1975: | | | | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 28 |
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1976: | | | | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 29 |
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1976: | | | | VHS Video Recordings at age 29 |
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1976: | | | | American Bicentennial at age 29 |
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1976: | | | | Television begins satellite delivery at age 29 |
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1977: | |
1977-1980: | | | | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 30 to age 33 |
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1978: | | | | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 31 |
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1978: | | | | Laserdisc video recordings at age 31 |
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1978: | | | | 1st test-tube baby at age 31 |
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1979: | | | | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 32 |
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1979: | | | | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 32 |
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1980: | | | | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 33 |
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1981: | | | | 1st female supreme court justice at age 34 |
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1981: | | | | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 34 |
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1981: | |
1981-1988: | | | | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 34 to age 41 |
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1982: | | | | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 35 |
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1983: | | | | Bluford 1st black in space at age 36 |
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1983: | | | | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 36 |
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1983: | |
1984: | | | | Apple Macintosh Ships at age 37 |
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1984: | | | | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 37 |
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1985: | | | | Amiga Computer Ships at age 38 |
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1986: | | | | Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 39 |
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1986: | | | | Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 39 |
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1986: | |
1986: | | | | Mir space station deployed at age 39 |
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1987: | | | | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 40 |
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1988: | | | | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 41 |
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1989: | | | | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 42 |
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1989: | | | | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 42 |
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1989-1992: | | | | George Bush president of US from age 42 to age 45 |
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1989: | | | | Fall of Berlin Wall at age 42 |
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1989: | | | | Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 42 |
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1989: | | | | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 42 |
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1990: | | | | Hubble space telescope deployed at age 43 |
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1990: | |
1991: | | | | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 44 |
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1991-2003: | | | | 8th Cholera pandemic from age 44 until after line end |
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1992: | | | | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 45 |
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1993: | | | | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 46 |
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1993-2000: | | | | William Clinton president of US from age 46 until after line end |
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1993: | | | | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 46 |
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1994: | | | | South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 47 |
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1995: | | | | American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 48 |
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1996: | | | | DVD video recordings at age 49 |
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1997: | | | | Cloning living beings at age 50 |
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1997: | | | | Mars pathfinder lands at age 50 |
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