| 1910-1936: |   |   |   | Reign of King George V (Windsor)  from before birth until age 12 | 
 
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  | 1918-1933: |   |   |   | Prohibition  from before birth until age 9 | 
 
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  | 1920-1929: |   |   |   | Roaring 20's  from before birth until age 5 | 
 
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  | 1921-1924: |   |   |   | Warren G Harding president of US  from before birth until age 0 | 
 
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  | 1925-1928: |   |   |   | Calvin Coolidge president of US  from age 1 to age  4 | 
 
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  | 1925: |   |   |   | Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory  at age 1 | 
 
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  | 1926: |  | 
  | 1927: |   |   |   | 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh  at age 3 | 
 
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  | 1927: |   |   |   | Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)  at age 3 | 
 
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  | 1928: |  | 
  | 1928: |  | 
  | 1928: |   |   |   | Penicillin discovered  by Sir Alexander Fleming  at age 4 | 
 
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  | 1928: |   |   |   | Video Recordings  at age 4 | 
 
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  | 1929: |   |   |   | Stock Market Crash  at age 5 | 
 
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  | 1929-1939: |   |   |   | Great Depression  from age 5 to age  15 | 
 
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  | 1929-1932: |   |   |   | Herbert Hoover president of US  from age 5 to age  8 | 
 
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  | 1930: |   |   |   | Pluto Discovered  at age 6 | 
 
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  | 1931-1933: |   |   |   | Chinese-Japanese war (2)  from age 7 to age  9 | 
 
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  | 1933: |  | 
  | 1933: |   |   |   | Soviet communist party purge  at age 9 | 
 
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  | 1933-1945: |   |   |   | Franklin D Roosevelt president of US  from age 9 to age  21 | 
 
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  | 1933: |   |   |   | Armstrong invents FM modulation  at age 9 | 
 
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  | 1934: |   |   |   | Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days  at age 10 | 
 
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  | 1935-1936: |   |   |   | Abyssinian war  from age 11 to age  12 | 
 
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  | 1935: |  | 
  | 1936: |   |   |   | Spanish Civil War  at age 12 | 
 
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  | 1936: |   |   |   | Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor)  at age 12 | 
 
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  | 1936-1952: |   |   |   | Reign of King George VI (Windsor)  from age 12 to age  28 | 
 
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  | 1936: |  | 
  | 1937-1945: |   |   |   | Chinese-Japanese war (3)  from age 13 to age  21 | 
 
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  | 1937: |   |   |   | Nylon (by DuPont)  at age 13 | 
 
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  | 1938: |   |   |   | Germany annexes Austria  at age 14 | 
 
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  | 1939: |   |   |   | Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain)  at age 15 | 
 
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  | 1939-1945: |   |   |   | World War II  from age 15 to age  21 | 
 
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  | 1939: |   |   |   | Digital Computer  at age 15 | 
 
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  | 1940: |   |   |   | 1st black general in US army  at age 16 | 
 
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  | 1940: |   |   |   | Color Television  at age 16 | 
 
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  | 1941-1945: |   |   |   | Manhattan Project  from age 17 to age  21 | 
 
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  | 1942: |   |   |   | Magnetic Recording Tape  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1942: |   |   |   | Nuclear Reactor  at age 18 | 
 
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  | 1945: |   |   |   | US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki  at age 21 | 
 
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  | 1945-1952: |   |   |   | Harry S Truman president of US  from age 21 to age  28 | 
 
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  | 1945: |   |   |   | United Nations formed  at age 21 | 
 
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  | 1945: |  | 
  | 1946: |  | 
  | 1946-1989: |   |   |   | The Cold War  from age 22 to age  65 | 
 
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  | 1947: |   |   |   | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections  at age 23 | 
 
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  | 1947: |  | 
  | 1947: |   |   |   | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India  at age 23 | 
 
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  | 1948: |   |   |   | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated  at age 24 | 
 
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  | 1948: |   |   |   | Israel inaugurated as state  at age 24 | 
 
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  | 1948: |   |   |   | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings  at age 24 | 
 
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  | 1948: |  | 
  | 1949: |   |   |   | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb  at age 25 | 
 
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  | 1949: |   |   |   | 45 rpm musical recordings  at age 25 | 
 
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  | 1949: |   |   |   | Apartheid policy in South Africa  at age 25 | 
 
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  | 1950: |   |   |   | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize  at age 26 | 
 
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  | 1950-1954: |   |   |   | McCarthyism  from age 26 to age  30 | 
 
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  | 1950: |   |   |   | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion  at age 26 | 
 
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  | 1950-1953: |   |   |   | Korean War  from age 26 to age  29 | 
 
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  | 1951: |   |   |   | Electricity from Atomic Power  at age 27 | 
 
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  | 1952-2050: |   |   |   | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor)  from age 28 until after line end | 
 
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  | 1952: |   |   |   | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated  at age 28 | 
 
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  | 1953-1960: |   |   |   | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US  from age 29 to age  36 | 
 
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  | 1954: |   |   |   | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional  at age 30 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Warsaw pact formed  at age 31 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine  at age 31 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Fiber Optics (by Kapany)  at age 31 | 
 
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  | 1955: |   |   |   | Invention of Velcro  at age 31 | 
 
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  | 1956: |   |   |   | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks  at age 32 | 
 
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  | 1957: |   |   |   | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite  at age 33 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | Integrated Circuit  at age 34 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | US space agency (NASA) established  at age 34 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | FM Stereo Broadcasts  at age 34 | 
 
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  | 1958: |   |   |   | Stereo LP recordings come into usage  at age 34 | 
 
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  | 1959: |   |   |   | Alaska enters the union - 49th  at age 35 | 
 
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  | 1959: |   |   |   | Hawaii enters the union - 50th  at age 35 | 
 
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  | 1959: |   |   |   | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah  at age 35 | 
 
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  | 1960: |  | 
  | 1960: |   |   |   | World  subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton  at age 36 | 
 
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  | 1960: |   |   |   | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I)  at age 36 | 
 
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  | 1960: |  | 
  | 1961-1963: |   |   |   | John F Kennedy president of US  from age 37 to age  39 | 
 
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  | 1961-1970: |   |   |   | 7th Cholera pandemic  from age 37 to age  46 | 
 
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  | 1961: |   |   |   | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard  at age 37 | 
 
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  | 1961: |   |   |   | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin  at age 37 | 
 
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  | 1962-1965: |   |   |   | Vatican II  from age 38 to age  41 | 
 
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  | 1962: |   |   |   | Cuban missile crisis  at age 38 | 
 
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  | 1963: |   |   |   | Compact Cassette Recordings  at age 39 | 
 
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  | 1963: |   |   |   | 1st artificial heart  at age 39 | 
 
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  | 1963: |   |   |   | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated  at age 39 | 
 
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  | 1963-1968: |   |   |   | Lyndon B Johnson president of US  from age 39 to age  44 | 
 
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  | 1964-1975: |   |   |   | Vietnam War  from age 40 to age  51 | 
 
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  | 1964: |   |   |   | US civil rights bill  at age 40 | 
 
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  | 1965: |   |   |   | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles  at age 41 | 
 
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  | 1965: |   |   |   | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR)  at age 41 | 
 
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  | 1966: |   |   |   | 8-track tape players  at age 42 | 
 
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  | 1966: |   |   |   | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR)  at age 42 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | 1st human heart transplant  at age 43 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole  at age 43 | 
 
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  | 1967-1970: |   |   |   | Nigerian civil war  from age 43 to age  46 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice  at age 43 | 
 
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  | 1967: |   |   |   | Six day war: Israel-Arabs  at age 43 | 
 
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  | 1968: |   |   |   | Robert Kennedy assassinated  at age 44 | 
 
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  | 1968: |   |   |   | Martin Luther King assassinated  at age 44 | 
 
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  | 1969-1974: |   |   |   | Richard M. Nixon president of US  from age 45 to age  50 | 
 
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  | 1969: |   |   |   | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin  at age 45 | 
 
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  | 1969: |   |   |   | Woodstock Music Festival  at age 45 | 
 
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  | 1970: |  | 
  | 1970: |  | 
  | 1971: |   |   |   | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004  at age 47 | 
 
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  | 1971: |   |   |   | Pakistani civil war  at age 47 | 
 
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  | 1973: |   |   |   | October war (Israel-Arabic nations)  at age 49 | 
 
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  | 1973: |  | 
  | 1974: |   |   |   | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace  at age 50 | 
 
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  | 1974-1976: |   |   |   | Gerald Ford president of US  from age 50 to age  52 | 
 
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  | 1975: |   |   |   | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September  at age 51 | 
 
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  | 1975: |   |   |   | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal  at age 51 | 
 
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  | 1975: |   |   |   | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a  at age 51 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | American Bicentennial  at age 52 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa  at age 52 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | Television begins satellite delivery  at age 52 | 
 
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  | 1976: |   |   |   | VHS Video Recordings  at age 52 | 
 
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  | 1977-1980: |   |   |   | James Earl Carter Jr president of US  from age 53 to age  56 | 
 
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  | 1977: |  | 
  | 1978: |   |   |   | 1st test-tube baby  at age 54 | 
 
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  | 1978: |   |   |   | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die  at age 54 | 
 
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  | 1978: |   |   |   | Laserdisc video recordings  at age 54 | 
 
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  | 1979: |   |   |   | Three Mile Island nuclear event  at age 55 | 
 
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  | 1979: |   |   |   | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK  at age 55 | 
 
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  | 1980: |   |   |   | Mount St. Helens Erupts  at age 56 | 
 
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  | 1981: |   |   |   | 1st female supreme court justice  at age 57 | 
 
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  | 1981-1988: |   |   |   | Ronald Reagan president of US  from age 57 to age  64 | 
 
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  | 1981: |   |   |   | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia  at age 57 | 
 
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  | 1981: |  | 
  | 1982: |   |   |   | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin  at age 58 | 
 
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  | 1983: |   |   |   | Bluford 1st black in space  at age 59 | 
 
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  | 1983: |  | 
  | 1983: |   |   |   | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system  at age 59 | 
 
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  | 1984: |   |   |   | Apple Macintosh Ships  at age 60 | 
 
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  | 1984: |   |   |   | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs  at age 60 | 
 
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  | 1985: |   |   |   | Amiga Computer Ships  at age 61 | 
 
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  | 1986: |   |   |   | Mir space station deployed  at age 62 | 
 
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  | 1986: |  | 
  | 1986: |   |   |   | Shuttle Challenger explodes  at age 62 | 
 
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  | 1986: |   |   |   | Chernobyl power plant melts down  at age 62 | 
 
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  | 1987: |   |   |   | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos  at age 63 | 
 
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  | 1988: |   |   |   | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax  at age 64 | 
 
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  | 1989: |   |   |   | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega  at age 65 | 
 
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  | 1989: |   |   |   | Fall of Berlin Wall  at age 65 | 
 
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  | 1989: |   |   |   | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff  at age 65 | 
 
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  | 1989-1992: |   |   |   | George Bush president of US  from age 65 to age  68 | 
 
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  | 1989: |   |   |   | Breakup of the Soviet Union  at age 65 | 
 
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  | 1989: |   |   |   | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion  at age 65 | 
 
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  | 1990: |   |   |   | Hubble space telescope deployed  at age 66 | 
 
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  | 1990: |  | 
  | 1991-2003: |   |   |   | 8th Cholera pandemic  from age 67 to age  79 | 
 
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  | 1991: |   |   |   | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq  at age 67 | 
 
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  | 1992: |   |   |   | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles  at age 68 | 
 
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  | 1993-2000: |   |   |   | William Clinton president of US  from age 69 to age  76 | 
 
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  | 1993: |   |   |   | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center  at age 69 | 
 
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  | 1993: |   |   |   | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's  at age 69 | 
 
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  | 1994: |   |   |   | South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system  at age 70 | 
 
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  | 1995: |   |   |   | American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City  at age 71 | 
 
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  | 1996: |   |   |   | DVD video recordings  at age 72 | 
 
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  | 1997: |   |   |   | Mars pathfinder lands  at age 73 | 
 
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  | 1997: |   |   |   | Cloning living beings  at age 73 | 
 
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  | 1998: |   |   |   | 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU  at age 74 | 
 
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  | 1998: |   |   |   | Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th.  at age 74 | 
 
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  | 1998: |   |   |   | US attacks Iraq, again  at age 74 | 
 
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  | 1999: |   |   |   | US attacks Bosnia  at age 75 | 
 
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  | 2000: |   |   |   | '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled  at age 76 | 
 
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  | 2000: |   |   |   | Working draft of human genome completed  at age 76 | 
 
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  | 2000: |   |   |   | North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August  at age 76 | 
 
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  | 2000: |   |   |   | Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date  at age 76 | 
 
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  | 2001-2009: |   |   |   | George W. Bush president of US  from age 77 to age  85 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | Wikipedia goes online  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | X-Box console  released  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2001: |   |   |   | Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths  at age 77 | 
 
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  | 2002: |   |   |   | 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar  at age 78 | 
 
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  | 2002: |   |   |   | Euro currency introduced  at age 78 | 
 
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  | 2002: |   |   |   | Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali  at age 78 | 
 
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  | 2003: |   |   |   | Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st)  at age 79 | 
 
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  | 2003: |   |   |   | 28,000 die in Iran earthquake  at age 79 | 
 
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  | 2004: |   |   |   | Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 2004: |   |   |   | Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 2004: |   |   |   | Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 2004: |   |   |   | Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 2004: |   |   |   | 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain  at age 80 | 
 
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  | 2005: |   |   |   | Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 2005: |   |   |   | Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 2005: |   |   |   | Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 2005: |   |   |   | NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 2005: |   |   |   | Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 2005: |   |   |   | Microsoft ships Xbox 360  at age 81 | 
 
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  | 2006: |   |   |   | Wii ships from Nintendo  at age 82 | 
 
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  | 2006: |   |   |   | PS3 ships from Sony  at age 82 | 
 
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  | 2006: |   |   |   | Americans lose habeas corpus  at age 82 | 
 
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  | 2006: |   |   |   | Israel attacks Lebanon  at age 82 | 
 
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  | 2007: |   |   |   | Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright  at age 83 | 
 
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  | 2009: |   |   |   | Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth  at age 85 | 
 
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  | 2009-2012: |   |   |   | Obama president of USA  from age 85 until after line end | 
 
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