1936-1952: | | | | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from before birth until age 3 |
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1945-1952: | | | | Harry S Truman president of US from before birth until age 3 |
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1946-1989: | | | | The Cold War from before birth until after line end |
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1949: | | | | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 0 |
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1949: | | | | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 0 |
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1949: | | | | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 0 |
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1950: | | | | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 1 |
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1950-1954: | | | | McCarthyism from age 1 to age 5 |
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1950: | | | | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 1 |
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1950-1953: | | | | Korean War from age 1 to age 4 |
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1951: | | | | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 2 |
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1952-2050: | | | | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 3 until after line end |
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1952: | | | | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 3 |
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1953-1960: | | | | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 4 to age 11 |
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1954: | | | | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 5 |
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1955: | | | | Invention of Velcro at age 6 |
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1955: | | | | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 6 |
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1955: | | | | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 6 |
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1955: | | | | Warsaw pact formed at age 6 |
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1956: | | | | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 7 |
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1957: | | | | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 8 |
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1958: | | | | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 9 |
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1958: | | | | US space agency (NASA) established at age 9 |
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1958: | | | | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 9 |
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1958: | | | | Integrated Circuit at age 9 |
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1959: | | | | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 10 |
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1959: | | | | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 10 |
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1959: | | | | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 10 |
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1960: | | | | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 11 |
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1960: | |
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1960: | | | | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 11 |
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1961-1963: | | | | John F Kennedy president of US from age 12 to age 14 |
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1961: | | | | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 12 |
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1961: | | | | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 12 |
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1961-1970: | | | | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 12 to age 21 |
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1962-1965: | | | | Vatican II from age 13 to age 16 |
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1962: | | | | Cuban missile crisis at age 13 |
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1963: | | | | Compact Cassette Recordings at age 14 |
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1963: | | | | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 14 |
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1963-1968: | | | | Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 14 to age 19 |
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1963: | | | | 1st artificial heart at age 14 |
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1964-1975: | | | | Vietnam War from age 15 to age 26 |
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1964: | | | | US civil rights bill at age 15 |
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1965: | | | | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 16 |
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1965: | | | | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 16 |
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1966: | | | | 8-track tape players at age 17 |
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1966: | | | | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 17 |
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1967-1970: | | | | Nigerian civil war from age 18 to age 21 |
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1967: | | | | Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 18 |
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1967: | | | | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 18 |
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1967: | | | | 1st human heart transplant at age 18 |
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1967: | | | | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 18 |
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1968: | | | | Martin Luther King assassinated at age 19 |
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1968: | | | | Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 19 |
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1969: | | | | Woodstock Music Festival at age 20 |
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1969-1974: | | | | Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 20 to age 25 |
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1969: | | | | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 20 |
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1971: | | | | Pakistani civil war at age 22 |
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1971: | | | | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 22 |
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1973: | |
1973: | | | | October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 24 |
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1974: | | | | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 25 |
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1974-1976: | | | | Gerald Ford president of US from age 25 to age 27 |
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1975: | | | | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 26 |
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1975: | | | | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 26 |
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1975: | | | | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 26 |
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1976: | | | | Television begins satellite delivery at age 27 |
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1976: | | | | VHS Video Recordings at age 27 |
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1976: | | | | American Bicentennial at age 27 |
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1976: | | | | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 27 |
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1977: | |
1977-1980: | | | | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 28 to age 31 |
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1978: | | | | Laserdisc video recordings at age 29 |
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1978: | | | | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 29 |
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1978: | | | | 1st test-tube baby at age 29 |
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1979: | | | | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 30 |
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1979: | | | | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 30 |
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1980: | | | | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 31 |
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1981-1988: | | | | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 32 until after line end |
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1981: | | | | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 32 |
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1981: | |
1981: | | | | 1st female supreme court justice at age 32 |
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1982: | | | | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 33 |
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1983: | | | | Bluford 1st black in space at age 34 |
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1983: | |
1983: | | | | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 34 |
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