1936-1952: |  |  |  | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from before birth until age 6 |
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1945-1952: |  |  |  | Harry S Truman president of US from before birth until age 6 |
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1946: | |
1946-1989: |  |  |  | The Cold War from age 0 to age 43 |
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1947: |  |  |  | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 1 |
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1947: | |
1947: |  |  |  | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 1 |
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1948: | |
1948: |  |  |  | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 2 |
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1948: |  |  |  | Israel inaugurated as state at age 2 |
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1948: |  |  |  | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 2 |
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1949: |  |  |  | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 3 |
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1949: |  |  |  | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 3 |
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1949: |  |  |  | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 3 |
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1950: |  |  |  | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 4 |
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1950-1953: |  |  |  | Korean War from age 4 to age 7 |
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1950-1954: |  |  |  | McCarthyism from age 4 to age 8 |
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1950: |  |  |  | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 4 |
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1951: |  |  |  | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 5 |
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1952-2050: |  |  |  | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 6 until after line end |
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1952: |  |  |  | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 6 |
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1953-1960: |  |  |  | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 7 to age 14 |
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1954: |  |  |  | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 8 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Warsaw pact formed at age 9 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 9 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 9 |
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1955: |  |  |  | Invention of Velcro at age 9 |
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1956: |  |  |  | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 10 |
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1957: |  |  |  | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 11 |
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1958: |  |  |  | Integrated Circuit at age 12 |
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1958: |  |  |  | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 12 |
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1958: |  |  |  | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 12 |
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1958: |  |  |  | US space agency (NASA) established at age 12 |
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1959: |  |  |  | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 13 |
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1959: |  |  |  | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 13 |
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1959: |  |  |  | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 13 |
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1960: |  |  |  | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 14 |
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1960: |  |  |  | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 14 |
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1960: | |
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1961: |  |  |  | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 15 |
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1961-1970: |  |  |  | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 15 to age 24 |
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1961-1963: |  |  |  | John F Kennedy president of US from age 15 to age 17 |
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1961: |  |  |  | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 15 |
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1962: |  |  |  | Cuban missile crisis at age 16 |
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1962-1965: |  |  |  | Vatican II from age 16 to age 19 |
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1963: |  |  |  | 1st artificial heart at age 17 |
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1963: |  |  |  | Compact Cassette Recordings at age 17 |
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1963-1968: |  |  |  | Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 17 to age 22 |
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1963: |  |  |  | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 17 |
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1964: |  |  |  | US civil rights bill at age 18 |
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1964-1975: |  |  |  | Vietnam War from age 18 to age 29 |
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1965: |  |  |  | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 19 |
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1965: |  |  |  | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 19 |
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1966: |  |  |  | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 20 |
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1966: |  |  |  | 8-track tape players at age 20 |
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1967-1970: |  |  |  | Nigerian civil war from age 21 to age 24 |
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1967: |  |  |  | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 21 |
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1967: |  |  |  | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 21 |
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1967: |  |  |  | Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 21 |
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1967: |  |  |  | 1st human heart transplant at age 21 |
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1968: |  |  |  | Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 22 |
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1968: |  |  |  | Martin Luther King assassinated at age 22 |
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1969-1974: |  |  |  | Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 23 to age 28 |
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1969: |  |  |  | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 23 |
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1969: |  |  |  | Woodstock Music Festival at age 23 |
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1970: | |
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1971: |  |  |  | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 25 |
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1971: |  |  |  | Pakistani civil war at age 25 |
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1973: | |
1973: |  |  |  | October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 27 |
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1974-1976: |  |  |  | Gerald Ford president of US from age 28 to age 30 |
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1974: |  |  |  | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 28 |
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1975: |  |  |  | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 29 |
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1975: |  |  |  | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 29 |
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1975: |  |  |  | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 29 |
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1976: |  |  |  | American Bicentennial at age 30 |
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1976: |  |  |  | Television begins satellite delivery at age 30 |
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1976: |  |  |  | VHS Video Recordings at age 30 |
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1976: |  |  |  | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 30 |
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1977-1980: |  |  |  | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 31 to age 34 |
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1977: | |
1978: |  |  |  | 1st test-tube baby at age 32 |
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1978: |  |  |  | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 32 |
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1978: |  |  |  | Laserdisc video recordings at age 32 |
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1979: |  |  |  | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 33 |
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1979: |  |  |  | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 33 |
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1980: |  |  |  | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 34 |
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1981: |  |  |  | 1st female supreme court justice at age 35 |
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1981: |  |  |  | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 35 |
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1981: | |
1981-1988: |  |  |  | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 35 to age 42 |
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1982: |  |  |  | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 36 |
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1983: | |
1983: |  |  |  | Bluford 1st black in space at age 37 |
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1983: |  |  |  | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 37 |
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1984: |  |  |  | Apple Macintosh Ships at age 38 |
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1984: |  |  |  | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 38 |
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1985: |  |  |  | Amiga Computer Ships at age 39 |
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1986: |  |  |  | Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 40 |
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1986: |  |  |  | Mir space station deployed at age 40 |
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1986: |  |  |  | Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 40 |
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1986: | |
1987: |  |  |  | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 41 |
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1988: |  |  |  | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 42 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 43 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 43 |
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1989-1992: |  |  |  | George Bush president of US from age 43 to age 46 |
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1989: |  |  |  | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 43 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 43 |
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1989: |  |  |  | Fall of Berlin Wall at age 43 |
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1990: |  |  |  | Hubble space telescope deployed at age 44 |
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1990: | |
1991: |  |  |  | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 45 |
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1991-2003: |  |  |  | 8th Cholera pandemic from age 45 to age 57 |
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1992: |  |  |  | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 46 |
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1993: |  |  |  | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 47 |
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1993-2000: |  |  |  | William Clinton president of US from age 47 to age 54 |
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1993: |  |  |  | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 47 |
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1994: |  |  |  | South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 48 |
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1995: |  |  |  | American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 49 |
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1996: |  |  |  | DVD video recordings at age 50 |
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1997: |  |  |  | Cloning living beings at age 51 |
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1997: |  |  |  | Mars pathfinder lands at age 51 |
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1998: |  |  |  | 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 52 |
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1998: |  |  |  | Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 52 |
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1998: |  |  |  | US attacks Iraq, again at age 52 |
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1999: |  |  |  | US attacks Bosnia at age 53 |
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2000: |  |  |  | Working draft of human genome completed at age 54 |
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2000: |  |  |  | Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 54 |
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2000: |  |  |  | North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 54 |
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2000: |  |  |  | '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 54 |
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2001: |  |  |  | Wikipedia goes online at age 55 |
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2001: |  |  |  | X-Box console released at age 55 |
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2001: |  |  |  | Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 55 |
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2001: |  |  |  | Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 55 |
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2001-2009: |  |  |  | George W. Bush president of US from age 55 to age 63 |
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2001: |  |  |  | Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 55 |
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2001: |  |  |  | Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 55 |
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2001: |  |  |  | US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 55 |
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2002: |  |  |  | Euro currency introduced at age 56 |
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2002: |  |  |  | 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 56 |
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2002: |  |  |  | Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 56 |
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2003: |  |  |  | 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 57 |
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2003: |  |  |  | Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 57 |
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2004: |  |  |  | Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 58 |
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2004: |  |  |  | Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 58 |
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2004: |  |  |  | Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 58 |
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2004: |  |  |  | Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 58 |
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2004: |  |  |  | 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 58 |
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2005: |  |  |  | NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 59 |
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2005: |  |  |  | Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 59 |
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2005: |  |  |  | Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 59 |
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2005: |  |  |  | Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 59 |
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2005: |  |  |  | Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 59 |
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2005: |  |  |  | Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 59 |
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2006: |  |  |  | Wii ships from Nintendo at age 60 |
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2006: |  |  |  | PS3 ships from Sony at age 60 |
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2006: |  |  |  | Americans lose habeas corpus at age 60 |
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2006: |  |  |  | Israel attacks Lebanon at age 60 |
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2007: |  |  |  | Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 61 |
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2009: |  |  |  | Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 63 |
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2009-2012: |  |  |  | Obama president of USA from age 63 until after line end |
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