| 1933-1945 |
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Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from
before birth until age 0 |
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| 1936-1952 |
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Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from before
birth until age 7 |
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| 1937-1945 |
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Chinese-Japanese
war (3) from before birth until age 0 |
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| 1939-1945 |
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World
War II from before birth until age 0 |
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| 1941-1945 |
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Manhatten Project from before birth until
age 0 |
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| 1945 |
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United Nations formed at age 0 |
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| 1945 |
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US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
at age 0 |
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| 1945 |
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Hypertext at age 0 |
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| 1945-1952 |
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Harry S Truman president of US from age
0 to 7 |
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| 1946 |
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The Bikini at age 1 |
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| 1946-1989 |
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The Cold War from age 1 to 44 |
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| 1947 |
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Transistor at age 2 |
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| 1947 |
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UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab
sections at age 2 |
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| 1948 |
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Israel inaugurated as state at age 3 |
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| 1948 |
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Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated
at age 3 |
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| 1948 |
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NATO formed at age 3 |
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| 1948 |
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33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 3 |
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| 1949 |
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45 rpm musical recordings at age 4 |
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| 1949 |
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Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age
4 |
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| 1949 |
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Apartheid policy in South Africa at age
4 |
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| 1950 |
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Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize
at age 5 |
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| 1950 |
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World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 5 |
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| 1950-1953 |
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Korean
War from age 5 to 8 |
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| 1950-1954 |
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McCarthyism from age 5 to 9 |
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| 1951 |
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Electricity from Atomic Power at age 6 |
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| 1952 |
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1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age
7 |
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| 1952-2001 |
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from
age 7 to 56 |
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| 1953-1960 |
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Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from
age 8 to 15 |
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| 1954 |
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Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional
at age 9 |
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| 1955 |
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Warsaw pact formed at age 10 |
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| 1955 |
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Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age
10 |
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| 1955 |
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Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 10 |
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| 1956 |
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Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the
Stockholm, sinks at age 11 |
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| 1957 |
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Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite
at age 12 |
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| 1958 |
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Stereo LP recordings come into usage at
age 13 |
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| 1958 |
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US space agency (NASA) established at age
13 |
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| 1958 |
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Integrated
Circuit at age 13 |
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| 1958 |
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FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 13 |
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| 1959 |
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Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 14 |
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| 1959 |
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Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 14 |
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| 1959 |
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1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah
at age 14 |
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| 1960 |
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Pantyhose at age 15 |
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| 1960 |
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World subsurface circumnavigation by US
sub Triton at age 15 |
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| 1960 |
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Laser at age 15 |
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| 1960 |
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1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 15 |
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| 1961-1963 |
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John F Kennedy president of US from age
16 to 18 |
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| 1961-1970 |
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7th Cholera pandemic from age 16 to 25 |
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| 1961 |
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First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age
16 |
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| 1961 |
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1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard
at age 16 |
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| 1962-1965 |
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Vatican II from age 17 to 20 |
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| 1962 |
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Cuban missile crisis at age 17 |
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| 1963 |
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Compact Cassette Recordings at age 18 |
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| 1963 |
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1st artificial heart at age 18 |
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| 1963 |
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Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 18 |
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| 1963-1968 |
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Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age
18 to 23 |
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| 1964 |
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US civil rights bill at age 19 |
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| 1964-1975 |
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Vietnam
War from age 19 to 30 |
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| 1965 |
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Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles
at age 20 |
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| 1965 |
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1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 20 |
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| 1966 |
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1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at
age 21 |
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| 1966 |
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8-track tape players at age 21 |
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| 1967 |
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1st human heart transplant at age 22 |
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| 1967-1970 |
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Nigerian
civil war from age 22 to 25 |
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| 1967 |
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Six
day war: Israel-Arabs at age 22 |
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| 1967 |
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Marshall 1st black supreme court justice
at age 22 |
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| 1967 |
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Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black
Hole at age 22 |
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| 1968 |
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Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 23 |
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| 1968 |
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Martin Luther King assassinated at age 23 |
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| 1969 |
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Woodstock Music Festival at age 24 |
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| 1969 |
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Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
at age 24 |
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| 1969-1974 |
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Richard M. Nixon president of US from age
24 to 29 |
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| 1970 |
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Nat.
Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 25 |
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| 1970 |
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Microprocessor at age 25 |
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| 1971 |
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Pakistani
civil war at age 26 |
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| 1971 |
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Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at
age 26 |
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| 1973 |
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October
war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 28 |
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| 1973 |
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The Internet at age 28 |
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| 1974-1976 |
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Gerald Ford president of US from age 29
to 31 |
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| 1974 |
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Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 29 |
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| 1975 |
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Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal
at age 30 |
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| 1975 |
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The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a
at age 30 |
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| 1976 |
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VHS Video Recordings at age 31 |
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| 1976 |
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American Bicentennial at age 31 |
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| 1976 |
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Whites accept principle of black majority
rule in S. Africa at age 31 |
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| 1977-1980 |
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James Earl Carter Jr president of US from
age 32 to 35 |
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| 1977 |
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Neutron bomb at age 32 |
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| 1978 |
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1st test-tube baby at age 33 |
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| 1978 |
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Laserdisc video recordings at age 33 |
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| 1978 |
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Jonestown religious group mass suicide -
913 people die at age 33 |
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| 1979 |
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Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 34 |
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| 1979 |
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Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister
in UK at age 34 |
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| 1980 |
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Mount
St. Helens Erupts at age 35 |
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| 1981 |
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1st
space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 36 |
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| 1981 |
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1st female supreme court justice at age
36 |
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| 1981 |
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IBM PC ships at age 36 |
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| 1981-1988 |
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Ronald Reagan president of US from age 36
to 43 |
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| 1982 |
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1st genetically engineered product - insulin
at age 37 |
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| 1983 |
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Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age
38 |
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| 1983 |
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Compact Disks at age 38 |
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| 1983 |
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Bluford 1st black in space at age 38 |
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| 1984 |
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Apple Macintosh Ships at age 39 |
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| 1984 |
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HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age
39 |
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| 1985 |
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Amiga
Computer Ships at age 40 |
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| 1986 |
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Mir space station deployed at age 41 |
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| 1986 |
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Chernobyl
power plant melts down at age 41 |
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| 1986 |
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Shuttle
Challenger explodes at age 41 |
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| 1987 |
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2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos
at age 42 |
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| 1988 |
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Turin shroud carbon dated from 1330 AD at
age 43 |
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| 1989 |
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Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 44 |
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| 1989 |
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US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age
44 |
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| 1989-1992 |
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George Bush president of US from age 44
to 47 |
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| 1989 |
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Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs
of staff at age 44 |
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| 1989 |
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Fall of Berlin Wall at age 44 |
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| 1989 |
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Pons
and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 44 |
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| 1990 |
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Hubble space telescope deployed at age 45 |
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| 1990 |
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World Wide Web at age 45 |
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| 1991 |
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Iraq
attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 46 |
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| 1991-2001 |
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8th Cholera pandemic from age 46 to 56 |
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| 1992 |
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Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood,
Los Angeles at age 47 |
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| 1993 |
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Terrorist bombing of World Trade Center
at age 48 |
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| 1993-2000 |
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William Clinton president of US from age
48 to 55 |
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| 1995 |
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Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age
50 |
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| 1996 |
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DVD video recordings at age 51 |
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| 1997 |
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Mars pathfinder lands at age 52 |
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| 1997 |
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Cloning living beings at age 52 |
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| 1998 |
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Pres.
Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 53 |
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| 1998 |
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1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC
Alpha CPU at age 53 |
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| 1998 |
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US attacks Iraq, again at age 53 |
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| 1999 |
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US attacks Bosnia at age 54 |
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| 2000 |
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Playstation II ships - most powerful video
system to date at age 55 |
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| 2000 |
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Working draft of human genome completed
at age 55 |
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| 2000 |
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North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water
in August at age 55 |
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| 2001-2005 |
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George W. Bush president of US from age
56 until after timeline |
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| 2001 |
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World Trade Center destroyed by terrorists
Sep 11th at age 56 |
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| 2001 |
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Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers
begin at age 56 |
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| 2001 |
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US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age
56 |
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