| 1897-1904 |
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William McKinley president of US from before birth until age 2 |
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| 1899-1902 |
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Boer war from before
birth until age 0 |
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| 1899-1923 |
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6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 21 |
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| 1901-1910 |
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Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from before birth until age 8 |
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| 1903 |
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Airplane at age 1 |
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| 1903 |
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Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 1 |
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| 1904 |
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Radar at age 2 |
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| 1904-1905 |
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Russian-Japanese war
from age 2 to 3 |
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| 1905-1908 |
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Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 3 to 6 |
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| 1907 |
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Plastic at age 5 |
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| 1907 |
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Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 5 |
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| 1909 |
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Union of South Africa formed at age 7 |
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| 1909-1912 |
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William Howard Taft president of US from age 7 to 10 |
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| 1909 |
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North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 7 |
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| 1910 |
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Japan annexes Korea at age 8 |
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| 1910-1936 |
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Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 8 to 34 |
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| 1911 |
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South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 9 |
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| 1912 |
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Titanic sinks at age 10 |
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| 1912 |
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Alaska organized as a territory at age 10 |
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| 1912 |
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New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 10 |
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| 1912 |
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Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 10 |
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| 1913-1920 |
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Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 11 to 18 |
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| 1914 |
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The Bra at age 12 |
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| 1914-1919 |
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World War I from age
12 to 17 |
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| 1915 |
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 13 |
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| 1916 |
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Sonar at age 14 |
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| 1916 |
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Irish Easter Rebellion
at age 14 |
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| 1917 |
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Russian revolution at age 15 |
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| 1917 |
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US enters WWI at age 15 |
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| 1918-1920 |
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Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 16 to 18 |
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| 1918-1933 |
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Prohibition from age 16 to 31 |
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| 1919 |
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League of Nations instantiated at age 17 |
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| 1919 |
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Shortwave Radio at age 17 |
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| 1920 |
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Women receive right to
vote in USA at age 18 |
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| 1920-1929 |
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Roaring 20's from age 18 to 27 |
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| 1920 |
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Palestine established at age 18 |
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| 1921-1924 |
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Warren G Harding president of US from age 19 to 22 |
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| 1922 |
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Insulin made available to diabetics at age 20 |
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| 1925-1928 |
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Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 23 to 26 |
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| 1925 |
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Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 23 |
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| 1926 |
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Sound in Movies at age 24 |
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| 1927 |
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Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 25 |
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| 1927 |
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1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 25 |
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| 1928 |
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Penicillin invented by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 26 |
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| 1928 |
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Geiger Counter at age 26 |
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| 1928 |
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Television at age 26 |
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| 1928 |
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Video Recordings at age 26 |
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| 1929-1939 |
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Great Depression from age 27 to 37 |
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| 1929 |
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Stock Market Crash at age 27 |
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| 1929-1932 |
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Herbert Hoover president of US from age 27 to 30 |
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| 1930 |
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Pluto Discovered at age 28 |
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| 1931-1933 |
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Chinese-Japanese war
(2) from age 29 to 31 |
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| 1933 |
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Radio Astronomy at age 31 |
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| 1933 |
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Soviet communist party purge at age 31 |
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| 1933 |
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Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 31 |
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| 1933-1945 |
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Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 31 to 43 |
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| 1935 |
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Dustbowl at age 33 |
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| 1935-1936 |
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Abyssinian war from age
33 to 34 |
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| 1936 |
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Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 34 |
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| 1936 |
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Spanish Civil War at
age 34 |
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| 1936 |
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Helicopter at age 34 |
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| 1936-1952 |
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Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 34 to 50 |
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| 1937 |
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Nylon (by DuPont) at age 35 |
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| 1937-1945 |
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Chinese-Japanese war
(3) from age 35 to 43 |
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| 1938 |
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Germany annexes Austria at age 36 |
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| 1939-1945 |
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World War II from age
37 to 43 |
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| 1939 |
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Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 37 |
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| 1939 |
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Digital Computer at age 37 |
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| 1940 |
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Color Television at age 38 |
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| 1940 |
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1st black general in US army at age 38 |
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| 1941-1945 |
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Manhatten Project from age 39 to 43 |
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| 1942 |
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Magnetic Recording Tape at age 40 |
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| 1942 |
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Nuclear Reactor at age 40 |
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| 1945 |
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US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 43 |
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| 1945 |
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United Nations formed at age 43 |
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| 1945-1952 |
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Harry S Truman president of US from age 43 to 50 |
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| 1945 |
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Hypertext at age 43 |
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| 1946 |
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The Bikini at age 44 |
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| 1946-1989 |
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The Cold War from age 44 to 87 |
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| 1947 |
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Transistor at age 45 |
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| 1947 |
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UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 45 |
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| 1948 |
|
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 46 |
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| 1948 |
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33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 46 |
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| 1948 |
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NATO formed at age 46 |
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| 1948 |
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Israel inaugurated as state at age 46 |
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| 1949 |
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Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 47 |
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| 1949 |
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45 rpm musical recordings at age 47 |
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| 1949 |
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Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 47 |
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| 1950-1954 |
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McCarthyism from age 48 to 52 |
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| 1950-1953 |
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Korean War from age 48
to 51 |
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| 1950 |
|
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 48 |
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| 1950 |
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Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 48 |
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| 1951 |
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Electricity from Atomic Power at age 49 |
| |
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| 1952-2001 |
|
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 50 to 99 |
| |
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| 1952 |
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1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 50 |
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| 1953-1960 |
|
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 51 to 58 |
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| 1954 |
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Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 52 |
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| 1955 |
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Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 53 |
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| 1955 |
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Warsaw pact formed at age 53 |
| |
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| 1955 |
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Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 53 |
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| 1956 |
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Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 54 |
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| 1957 |
|
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 55 |
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| 1958 |
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Integrated Circuit at
age 56 |
| |
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| 1958 |
|
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 56 |
| |
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| 1958 |
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US space agency (NASA) established at age 56 |
| |
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| 1958 |
|
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 56 |
| |
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| 1959 |
|
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 57 |
| |
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| 1959 |
|
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 57 |
| |
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| 1959 |
|
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 57 |
| |
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|
| 1960 |
|
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 58 |
| |
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| 1960 |
|
Laser at age 58 |
| |
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| 1960 |
|
Pantyhose at age 58 |
| |
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| 1960 |
|
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 58 |
| |
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| 1961 |
|
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 59 |
| |
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| 1961-1970 |
|
7th Cholera pandemic from age 59 to 68 |
| |
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|
| 1961-1963 |
|
John F Kennedy president of US from age 59 to 61 |
| |
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| 1961 |
|
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 59 |
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| 1962-1965 |
|
Vatican II from age 60 to 63 |
| |
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| 1962 |
|
Cuban missile crisis at age 60 |
| |
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| 1963 |
|
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 61 |
| |
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|
| 1963-1968 |
|
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 61 to 66 |
| |
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| 1963 |
|
1st artificial heart at age 61 |
| |
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| 1963 |
|
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 61 |
| |
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| 1964 |
|
US civil rights bill at age 62 |
| |
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| 1964-1975 |
|
Vietnam War from age 62
to 73 |
| |
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| 1965 |
|
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 63 |
| |
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| 1965 |
|
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 63 |
| |
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| 1966 |
|
8-track tape players at age 64 |
| |
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| 1966 |
|
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 64 |
| |
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| 1967 |
|
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 65 |
| |
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| 1967 |
|
Six day war:
Israel-Arabs at age 65 |
| |
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| 1967 |
|
1st human heart transplant at age 65 |
| |
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| 1967-1970 |
|
Nigerian civil war
from age 65 to 68 |
| |
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| 1967 |
|
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 65 |
| |
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| 1968 |
|
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 66 |
| |
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| 1968 |
|
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 66 |
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|
| 1969-1974 |
|
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 67 to 72 |
| |
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| 1969 |
|
Woodstock Music Festival at age 67 |
| |
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| 1969 |
|
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 67 |
| |
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| 1970 |
|
Nat. Guard murders
4 students at Kent State at age 68 |
| |
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| 1970 |
|
Microprocessor at age 68 |
| |
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| 1971 |
|
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 69 |
| |
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| 1971 |
|
Pakistani civil war
at age 69 |
| |
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| 1973 |
|
October war
(Israel-Arabic nations) at age 71 |
| |
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|
| 1973 |
|
The Internet at age 71 |
| |
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|
| 1974-1976 |
|
Gerald Ford president of US from age 72 to 74 |
| |
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|
| 1974 |
|
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 72 |
| |
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|
| 1975 |
|
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 73 |
| |
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| 1975 |
|
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 73 |
| |
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| 1976 |
|
VHS Video Recordings at age 74 |
| |
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|
| 1976 |
|
American Bicentennial at age 74 |
| |
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|
| 1976 |
|
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 74 |
| |
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| 1977-1980 |
|
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 75 to 78 |
| |
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| 1977 |
|
Neutron bomb at age 75 |
| |
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|
| 1978 |
|
1st test-tube baby at age 76 |
| |
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| 1978 |
|
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 76 |
| |
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| 1978 |
|
Laserdisc video recordings at age 76 |
| |
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|
| 1979 |
|
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 77 |
| |
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|
| 1979 |
|
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 77 |
| |
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|
| 1980 |
|
Mount St. Helens
Erupts at age 78 |
| |
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|
| 1981 |
|
IBM PC ships at age 79 |
| |
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|
| 1981-1988 |
|
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 79 to 86 |
| |
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|
| 1981 |
|
1st female supreme court justice at age 79 |
| |
|
|
| 1981 |
|
1st space shuttle
flight - Columbia at age 79 |
| |
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|
| 1982 |
|
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 80 |
| |
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|
| 1983 |
|
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 81 |
| |
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| 1983 |
|
Compact Disks at age 81 |
| |
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|
| 1983 |
|
Bluford 1st black in space at age 81 |
| |
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|
| 1984 |
|
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 82 |
| |
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|
| 1984 |
|
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 82 |
| |
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|
| 1985 |
|
Amiga Computer Ships
at age 83 |
| |
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|
| 1986 |
|
Chernobyl power plant
melts down at age 84 |
| |
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|
| 1986 |
|
Mir space station deployed at age 84 |
| |
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|
| 1986 |
|
Shuttle Challenger
explodes at age 84 |
| |
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| 1987 |
|
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 85 |
| |
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| 1988 |
|
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age
86 |
| |
|
|
| 1989 |
|
Pons and Fleischmann
claim cold fusion at age 87 |
| |
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|
| 1989-1992 |
|
George Bush president of US from age 87 to 90 |
| |
|
|
| 1989 |
|
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 87 |
| |
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|
| 1989 |
|
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 87 |
| |
|
|
| 1989 |
|
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 87 |
| |
|
|
| 1989 |
|
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 87 |
| |
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|
| 1990 |
|
World Wide Web at age 88 |
| |
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|
| 1990 |
|
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 88 |
| |
|
|
| 1991 |
|
Iraq attacks Kuwait,
US Attacks Iraq at age 89 |
| |
|
|
| 1991-2001 |
|
8th Cholera pandemic from age 89 to 99 |
| |
|
|
| 1992 |
|
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 90 |
| |
|
|
| 1993 |
|
Terrorist bombing of World Trade Center at age 91 |
| |
|
|
| 1993-2000 |
|
William Clinton president of US from age 91 to 98 |
| |
|
|
| 1995 |
|
Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 93 |
| |
|
|
| 1996 |
|
DVD video recordings at age 94 |
| |
|
|
| 1997 |
|
Cloning living beings at age 95 |
| |
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|
| 1997 |
|
Mars pathfinder lands at age 95 |
| |
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|
| 1998 |
|
US attacks Iraq, again at age 96 |
| |
|
|
| 1998 |
|
Pres. Clinton
Impeached December 19th. at age 96 |
| |
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|
| 1998 |
|
1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 96 |
| |
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|
| 1999 |
|
US attacks Bosnia at age 97 |
| |
|
|
| 2000 |
|
Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 98 |
| |
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|
| 2000 |
|
Working draft of human genome completed at age 98 |
| |
|
|
| 2000 |
|
Christian Resurrectionists look foolish, part 2 (see 1000 AD). at age 98 |
| |
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|
| 2000 |
|
North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 98 |
| |
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|
| 2001-2005 |
|
George W. Bush president of US from age 99 until after timeline |
| |
|
|
| 2001 |
|
World Trade Center destroyed by terrorists Sep 11th at age 99 |
| |
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|
| 2001 |
|
Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 99 |
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|
| 2001 |
|
US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 99 |
