| 1837-1901: |   |   |   | Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)  from before birth until age 13 | 
 
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  | 1881-1896: |   |   |   | 5th Cholera pandemic  from before birth until age 8 | 
 
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  | 1885-1888: |   |   |   | Grover Cleveland president of US  from before birth until age 0 | 
 
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  | 1888: |   |   |   | 70...77 rpm musical records  at age 0 | 
 
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  | 1888: |   |   |   | Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths  at age 0 | 
 
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  | 1889-1892: |   |   |   | Benjamin Harrison president of US  from age 1 to age  4 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | Holerith invents the punch card  at age 1 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | South Dakota enters the union - 40th  at age 1 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | Montana enters the union - 41st  at age 1 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | Washington enters the union - 42nd  at age 1 | 
 
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  | 1889: |   |   |   | North Dakota enters the union - 39th  at age 1 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Oklahoma organized as a territory  at age 2 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Battle of Wounded Knee  at age 2 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Idaho enters the union - 43rd  at age 2 | 
 
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  | 1890: |   |   |   | Wyoming enters the union - 44th  at age 2 | 
 
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  | 1891: |   |   |   | Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled  at age 3 | 
 
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  | 1893: |  | 
  | 1893: |   |   |   | New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1893-1897: |   |   |   | US Financial panic, depression  from age 5 to age  9 | 
 
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  | 1893: |   |   |   | Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!)  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1893-1896: |   |   |   | Grover Cleveland president of US  from age 5 to age  8 | 
 
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  | 1894: |   |   |   | Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die  at age 6 | 
 
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  | 1894-1895: |   |   |   | Chinese-Japanese war (1)  from age 6 to age  7 | 
 
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  | 1896: |   |   |   | Utah enters the union - 45th  at age 8 | 
 
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  | 1896: |   |   |   | Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation  at age 8 | 
 
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  | 1897-1901: |   |   |   | William McKinley president of US  from age 9 to age  13 | 
 
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  | 1898: |   |   |   | Spanish American 1-year war  at age 10 | 
 
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  | 1899-1902: |   |   |   | Boer war  from age 11 to age  14 | 
 
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  | 1899-1923: |   |   |   | 6th Cholera pandemic  from age 11 to age  35 | 
 
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  | 1900: |   |   |   | Boxer rebellion in China  at age 12 | 
 
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  | 1900: |   |   |   | Hawaii organized as a territory  at age 12 | 
 
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  | 1900: |   |   |   | Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed  at age 12 | 
 
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  | 1901: |   |   |   | Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1901: |   |   |   | Commonwealth of Australia founded  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1901: |   |   |   | Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1901: |   |   |   | Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1901: |   |   |   | US President William McKinley assassinated  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1901-1910: |   |   |   | Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)  from age 13 to age  22 | 
 
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  | 1901: |   |   |   | First British submarine launched  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1901-1908: |   |   |   | Theodore Roosevelt president of US  from age 13 to age  20 | 
 
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  | 1903: |   |   |   | Nikola Tesla patents logic gates  at age 15 | 
 
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  | 1903: |  | 
  | 1904-1905: |   |   |   | Russian-Japanese war  from age 16 to age  17 | 
 
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  | 1904: |  | 
  | 1907: |  | 
  | 1907: |   |   |   | Oklahoma enters the union - 46th  at age 19 | 
 
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  | 1908: |   |   |   | Tunguska atmospheric object explosion  at age 20 | 
 
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  | 1909-1912: |   |   |   | William Howard Taft president of US  from age 21 to age  24 | 
 
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  | 1909: |   |   |   | Union of South Africa formed  at age 21 | 
 
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  | 1909: |   |   |   | North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp.  at age 21 | 
 
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  | 1910-1936: |   |   |   | Reign of King George V (Windsor)  from age 22 to age  48 | 
 
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  | 1910: |   |   |   | Japan annexes Korea  at age 22 | 
 
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  | 1910: |  | 
  | 1911: |   |   |   | South pole reached by Roald Amundsen  at age 23 | 
 
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  | 1912: |   |   |   | New Mexico enters the union - 47th  at age 24 | 
 
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  | 1912: |   |   |   | Alaska organized as a territory  at age 24 | 
 
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  | 1912: |  | 
  | 1912: |   |   |   | Arizona enters the union - 48th  at age 24 | 
 
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  | 1913-1920: |   |   |   | Woodrow Wilson president of US  from age 25 to age  32 | 
 
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  | 1914: |  | 
  | 1914-1919: |   |   |   | World War I  from age 26 to age  31 | 
 
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  | 1915: |   |   |   | Einstein's Theory of Relativity  at age 27 | 
 
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  | 1916: |  | 
  | 1916: |   |   |   | Irish Easter Rebellion  at age 28 | 
 
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  | 1917: |   |   |   | Russian revolution  at age 29 | 
 
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  | 1917: |  | 
  | 1918-1933: |   |   |   | Prohibition  from age 30 to age  45 | 
 
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  | 1918-1920: |   |   |   | Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die  from age 30 to age  32 | 
 
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  | 1919: |   |   |   | Shortwave Radio  at age 31 | 
 
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  | 1919: |   |   |   | League of Nations instantiated  at age 31 | 
 
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  | 1920: |   |   |   | Palestine established  at age 32 | 
 
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  | 1920-1929: |   |   |   | Roaring 20's  from age 32 to age  41 | 
 
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  | 1920: |   |   |   | Women receive right to vote in USA  at age 32 | 
 
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  | 1921-1924: |   |   |   | Warren G Harding president of US  from age 33 to age  36 | 
 
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  | 1922: |   |   |   | Insulin made available to diabetics  at age 34 | 
 
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  | 1925: |   |   |   | Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory  at age 37 | 
 
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  | 1925-1928: |   |   |   | Calvin Coolidge president of US  from age 37 to age  40 | 
 
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  | 1926: |   |   |   | Sound in Movies  at age 38 | 
 
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  | 1927: |   |   |   | Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)  at age 39 | 
 
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  | 1927: |   |   |   | 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh  at age 39 | 
 
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  | 1928: |   |   |   | Penicillin discovered  by Sir Alexander Fleming  at age 40 | 
 
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  | 1928: |  | 
  | 1928: |   |   |   | Video Recordings  at age 40 | 
 
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  | 1928: |  | 
  | 1929-1939: |   |   |   | Great Depression  from age 41 to age  51 | 
 
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  | 1929: |   |   |   | Stock Market Crash  at age 41 | 
 
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  | 1929-1932: |   |   |   | Herbert Hoover president of US  from age 41 to age  44 | 
 
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  | 1930: |   |   |   | Pluto Discovered  at age 42 | 
 
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  | 1931-1933: |   |   |   | Chinese-Japanese war (2)  from age 43 to age  45 | 
 
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  | 1933-1945: |   |   |   | Franklin D Roosevelt president of US  from age 45 to age  57 | 
 
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  | 1933: |   |   |   | Soviet communist party purge  at age 45 | 
 
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  | 1933: |   |   |   | Armstrong invents FM modulation  at age 45 | 
 
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  | 1933: |   |   |   | Radio Astronomy  at age 45 | 
 
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  | 1934: |   |   |   | Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days  at age 46 | 
 
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  | 1935-1936: |   |   |   | Abyssinian war  from age 47 to age  48 | 
 
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  | 1935: |  | 
  | 1936: |   |   |   | Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor)  at age 48 | 
 
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  | 1936-1952: |   |   |   | Reign of King George VI (Windsor)  from age 48 to age  64 | 
 
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  | 1936: |  | 
  | 1936: |   |   |   | Spanish Civil War  at age 48 | 
 
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  | 1937: |   |   |   | Nylon (by DuPont)  at age 49 | 
 
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  | 1937-1945: |   |   |   | Chinese-Japanese war (3)  from age 49 to age  57 | 
 
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  | 1938: |   |   |   | Germany annexes Austria  at age 50 | 
 
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  | 1939-1945: |   |   |   | World War II  from age 51 to age  57 | 
 
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  | 1939: |   |   |   | Digital Computer  at age 51 | 
 
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  | 1939: |   |   |   | Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain)  at age 51 | 
 
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  | 1940: |   |   |   | Color Television  at age 52 | 
 
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  | 1940: |   |   |   | 1st black general in US army  at age 52 | 
 
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  | 1941-1945: |   |   |   | Manhattan Project  from age 53 to age  57 | 
 
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  | 1942: |   |   |   | Magnetic Recording Tape  at age 54 | 
 
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  | 1942: |   |   |   | Nuclear Reactor  at age 54 | 
 
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  | 1945: |   |   |   | United Nations formed  at age 57 | 
 
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  | 1945: |   |   |   | US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki  at age 57 | 
 
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  | 1945-1952: |   |   |   | Harry S Truman president of US  from age 57 to age  64 | 
 
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  | 1945: |  | 
  | 1946-1989: |   |   |   | The Cold War  from age 58 until after line end | 
 
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  | 1946: |  | 
  | 1947: |   |   |   | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India  at age 59 | 
 
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  | 1947: |   |   |   | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections  at age 59 | 
 
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  | 1947: |  | 
  | 1948: |  | 
  | 1948: |   |   |   | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated  at age 60 | 
 
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  | 1948: |   |   |   | Israel inaugurated as state  at age 60 | 
 
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  | 1948: |   |   |   | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings  at age 60 | 
 
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  | 1949: |   |   |   | 45 rpm musical recordings  at age 61 | 
 
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  | 1949: |   |   |   | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb  at age 61 | 
 
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  | 1949: |   |   |   | Apartheid policy in South Africa  at age 61 | 
 
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  | 1950-1954: |   |   |   | McCarthyism  from age 62 to age  66 | 
 
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  | 1950-1953: |   |   |   | Korean War  from age 62 to age  65 | 
 
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  | 1950: |   |   |   | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize  at age 62 | 
 
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  | 1950: |   |   |   | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion  at age 62 | 
 
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  | 1951: |   |   |   | Electricity from Atomic Power  at age 63 | 
 
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  | 1952-2050: |   |   |   | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor)  from age 64 until after line end | 
 
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  | 1952: |   |   |   | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated  at age 64 | 
 
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  | 1953-1960: |   |   |   | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US  from age 65 to age  72 | 
 
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  | 1954: |   |   |   | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional  at age 66 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Warsaw pact formed  at age 67 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Invention of Velcro  at age 67 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine  at age 67 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Fiber Optics (by Kapany)  at age 67 | 
 
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  | 1956: |   |   |   | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks  at age 68 | 
 
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  | 1957: |   |   |   | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite  at age 69 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | Stereo LP recordings come into usage  at age 70 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | Integrated Circuit  at age 70 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | US space agency (NASA) established  at age 70 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | FM Stereo Broadcasts  at age 70 | 
 
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  | 1959: |   |   |   | Alaska enters the union - 49th  at age 71 | 
 
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  | 1959: |   |   |   | Hawaii enters the union - 50th  at age 71 | 
 
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  | 1959: |   |   |   | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah  at age 71 | 
 
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  | 1960: |   |   |   | World  subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton  at age 72 | 
 
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  | 1960: |  | 
  | 1960: |  | 
  | 1960: |   |   |   | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I)  at age 72 | 
 
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  | 1961-1963: |   |   |   | John F Kennedy president of US  from age 73 to age  75 | 
 
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  | 1961: |   |   |   | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin  at age 73 | 
 
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  | 1961-1970: |   |   |   | 7th Cholera pandemic  from age 73 to age  82 | 
 
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  | 1961: |   |   |   | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard  at age 73 | 
 
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  | 1962-1965: |   |   |   | Vatican II  from age 74 to age  77 | 
 
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  | 1962: |   |   |   | Cuban missile crisis  at age 74 | 
 
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  | 1963: |   |   |   | Compact Cassette Recordings  at age 75 | 
 
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  | 1963-1968: |   |   |   | Lyndon B Johnson president of US  from age 75 to age  80 | 
 
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  | 1963: |   |   |   | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated  at age 75 | 
 
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  | 1963: |   |   |   | 1st artificial heart  at age 75 | 
 
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  | 1964-1975: |   |   |   | Vietnam War  from age 76 to age  87 | 
 
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  | 1964: |   |   |   | US civil rights bill  at age 76 | 
 
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  | 1965: |   |   |   | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR)  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 1965: |   |   |   | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 1966: |   |   |   | 8-track tape players  at age 78 | 
 
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  | 1966: |   |   |   | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR)  at age 78 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | Six day war: Israel-Arabs  at age 79 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice  at age 79 | 
 
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  | 1967-1970: |   |   |   | Nigerian civil war  from age 79 to age  82 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole  at age 79 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | 1st human heart transplant  at age 79 | 
 
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  | 1968: |   |   |   | Robert Kennedy assassinated  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 1968: |   |   |   | Martin Luther King assassinated  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 1969: |   |   |   | Woodstock Music Festival  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 1969: |   |   |   | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 1969-1974: |   |   |   | Richard M. Nixon president of US  from age 81 to age  86 | 
 
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  | 1970: |  | 
  | 1970: |  | 
  | 1971: |   |   |   | Pakistani civil war  at age 83 | 
 
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  | 1971: |   |   |   | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004  at age 83 | 
 
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  | 1973: |   |   |   | October war (Israel-Arabic nations)  at age 85 | 
 
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  | 1973: |  | 
  | 1974-1976: |   |   |   | Gerald Ford president of US  from age 86 to age  88 | 
 
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  | 1974: |   |   |   | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace  at age 86 | 
 
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  | 1975: |   |   |   | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September  at age 87 | 
 
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  | 1975: |   |   |   | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal  at age 87 | 
 
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  | 1975: |   |   |   | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a  at age 87 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa  at age 88 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | VHS Video Recordings  at age 88 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | American Bicentennial  at age 88 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | Television begins satellite delivery  at age 88 | 
 
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  | 1977: |  | 
  | 1977-1980: |   |   |   | James Earl Carter Jr president of US  from age 89 to age  92 | 
 
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  | 1978: |   |   |   | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die  at age 90 | 
 
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  | 1978: |   |   |   | 1st test-tube baby  at age 90 | 
 
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  | 1978: |   |   |   | Laserdisc video recordings  at age 90 | 
 
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  | 1979: |   |   |   | Three Mile Island nuclear event  at age 91 | 
 
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  | 1979: |   |   |   | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK  at age 91 | 
 
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  | 1980: |   |   |   | Mount St. Helens Erupts  at age 92 | 
 
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  | 1981: |   |   |   | 1st female supreme court justice  at age 93 | 
 
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  | 1981: |  | 
  | 1981: |   |   |   | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia  at age 93 | 
 
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  | 1981-1988: |   |   |   | Ronald Reagan president of US  from age 93 to age  100 | 
 
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  | 1982: |   |   |   | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin  at age 94 | 
 
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  | 1983: |   |   |   | Bluford 1st black in space  at age 95 | 
 
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  | 1983: |  | 
  | 1983: |   |   |   | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system  at age 95 | 
 
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  | 1984: |   |   |   | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs  at age 96 | 
 
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  | 1984: |   |   |   | Apple Macintosh Ships  at age 96 | 
 
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  | 1985: |   |   |   | Amiga Computer Ships  at age 97 | 
 
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  | 1986: |   |   |   | Chernobyl power plant melts down  at age 98 | 
 
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  | 1986: |   |   |   | Mir space station deployed  at age 98 | 
 
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  | 1986: |  | 
  | 1986: |   |   |   | Shuttle Challenger explodes  at age 98 | 
 
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  | 1987: |   |   |   | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos  at age 99 | 
 
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  | 1988: |   |   |   | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax  at age 100 | 
 
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