1910-1936: |  |  |  | Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 0 |
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1929-1939: |  |  |  | Great Depression from before birth until age 3 |
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1933-1945: |  |  |  | Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from before birth until age 9 |
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1935-1936: |  |  |  | Abyssinian war from before birth until age 0 |
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1936: |  |  |  | Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 0 |
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1936-1952: |  |  |  | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 0 to age 16 |
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1936: |  |  |  | Spanish Civil War at age 0 |
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1936: | |
1937: |  |  |  | Nylon (by DuPont) at age 1 |
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1937-1945: |  |  |  | Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 1 to age 9 |
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1938: |  |  |  | Germany annexes Austria at age 2 |
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1939: |  |  |  | Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 3 |
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1939: |  |  |  | Digital Computer at age 3 |
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1939-1945: |  |  |  | World War II from age 3 to age 9 |
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1940: |  |  |  | Color Television at age 4 |
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1940: |  |  |  | 1st black general in US army at age 4 |
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1941-1945: |  |  |  | Manhattan Project from age 5 to age 9 |
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1942: |  |  |  | Magnetic Recording Tape at age 6 |
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1945-1952: |  |  |  | Harry S Truman president of US from age 9 to age 16 |
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1945: |  |  |  | US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 9 |
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1945: |  |  |  | United Nations formed at age 9 |
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1946-1989: |  |  |  | The Cold War from age 10 to age 53 |
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1947: |  |  |  | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 11 |
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1947: | |
1947: |  |  |  | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 11 |
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1948: |  |  |  | Israel inaugurated as state at age 12 |
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1948: | |
1948: |  |  |  | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 12 |
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1948: |  |  |  | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 12 |
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1949: |  |  |  | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 13 |
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1949: |  |  |  | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 13 |
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1949: |  |  |  | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 13 |
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1950-1953: |  |  |  | Korean War from age 14 to age 17 |
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1950: |  |  |  | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 14 |
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1950: |  |  |  | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 14 |
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1950-1954: |  |  |  | McCarthyism from age 14 to age 18 |
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1951: |  |  |  | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 15 |
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1952: |  |  |  | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 16 |
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1952-2050: |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 16 until after line end |
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1953-1960: |  |  |  | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 17 to age 24 |
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1954: |  |  |  | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 18 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 19 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Invention of Velcro at age 19 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Warsaw pact formed at age 19 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 19 |
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1956: |  |  |  | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 20 |
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1957: |  |  |  | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 21 |
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1958: |  |  |  | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 22 |
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1958: |  |  |  | US space agency (NASA) established at age 22 |
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1958: |  |  |  | Integrated Circuit at age 22 |
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1958: |  |  |  | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 22 |
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1959: |  |  |  | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 23 |
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1959: |  |  |  | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 23 |
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1959: |  |  |  | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 23 |
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1960: |  |  |  | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 24 |
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1960: | |
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1960: |  |  |  | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 24 |
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1961-1963: |  |  |  | John F Kennedy president of US from age 25 to age 27 |
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1961-1970: |  |  |  | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 25 to age 34 |
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1961: |  |  |  | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 25 |
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1961: |  |  |  | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 25 |
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1962-1965: |  |  |  | Vatican II from age 26 to age 29 |
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1962: |  |  |  | Cuban missile crisis at age 26 |
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1963: |  |  |  | 1st artificial heart at age 27 |
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1963: |  |  |  | Compact Cassette Recordings at age 27 |
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1963: |  |  |  | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 27 |
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1963-1968: |  |  |  | Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 27 to age 32 |
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1964: |  |  |  | US civil rights bill at age 28 |
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1964-1975: |  |  |  | Vietnam War from age 28 to age 39 |
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1965: |  |  |  | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 29 |
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1965: |  |  |  | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 29 |
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1966: |  |  |  | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 30 |
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1966: |  |  |  | 8-track tape players at age 30 |
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1967: |  |  |  | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 31 |
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1967: |  |  |  | Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 31 |
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1967: |  |  |  | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 31 |
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1967: |  |  |  | 1st human heart transplant at age 31 |
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1967-1970: |  |  |  | Nigerian civil war from age 31 to age 34 |
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1968: |  |  |  | Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 32 |
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1968: |  |  |  | Martin Luther King assassinated at age 32 |
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1969: |  |  |  | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 33 |
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1969-1974: |  |  |  | Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 33 to age 38 |
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1969: |  |  |  | Woodstock Music Festival at age 33 |
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1971: |  |  |  | Pakistani civil war at age 35 |
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1971: |  |  |  | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 35 |
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1973: | |
1973: |  |  |  | October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 37 |
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1974-1976: |  |  |  | Gerald Ford president of US from age 38 to age 40 |
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1974: |  |  |  | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 38 |
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1975: |  |  |  | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 39 |
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1975: |  |  |  | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 39 |
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1975: |  |  |  | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 39 |
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1976: |  |  |  | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 40 |
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1976: |  |  |  | American Bicentennial at age 40 |
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1976: |  |  |  | VHS Video Recordings at age 40 |
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1976: |  |  |  | Television begins satellite delivery at age 40 |
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1977-1980: |  |  |  | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 41 to age 44 |
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1977: | |
1978: |  |  |  | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 42 |
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1978: |  |  |  | Laserdisc video recordings at age 42 |
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1978: |  |  |  | 1st test-tube baby at age 42 |
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1979: |  |  |  | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 43 |
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1979: |  |  |  | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 43 |
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1980: |  |  |  | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 44 |
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1981: |  |  |  | 1st female supreme court justice at age 45 |
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1981-1988: |  |  |  | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 45 to age 52 |
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1981: |  |  |  | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 45 |
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1981: | |
1982: |  |  |  | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 46 |
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1983: | |
1983: |  |  |  | Bluford 1st black in space at age 47 |
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1983: |  |  |  | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 47 |
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1984: |  |  |  | Apple Macintosh Ships at age 48 |
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1984: |  |  |  | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 48 |
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1985: |  |  |  | Amiga Computer Ships at age 49 |
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1986: |  |  |  | Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 50 |
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1986: |  |  |  | Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 50 |
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1986: |  |  |  | Mir space station deployed at age 50 |
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1986: | |
1987: |  |  |  | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 51 |
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1988: |  |  |  | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 52 |
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1989: |  |  |  | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 53 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 53 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Fall of Berlin Wall at age 53 |
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1989-1992: |  |  |  | George Bush president of US from age 53 to age 56 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 53 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 53 |
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1990: | |
1990: |  |  |  | Hubble space telescope deployed at age 54 |
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1991-2003: |  |  |  | 8th Cholera pandemic from age 55 until after line end |
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1991: |  |  |  | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 55 |
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1992: |  |  |  | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 56 |
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1993: |  |  |  | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 57 |
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1993-2000: |  |  |  | William Clinton president of US from age 57 until after line end |
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1993: |  |  |  | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 57 |
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