| 1946-1989: |  | | | The Cold War from before birth until age 14 |
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| 1952-2050: | | | | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from before birth until after line end |
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| 1964-1975: | | | | Vietnam War from before birth until age 0 |
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| 1974-1976: | | | | Gerald Ford president of US from before birth until age 1 |
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| 1975: | | | | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 0 |
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| 1975: | | | | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 0 |
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| 1975: | | | | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 0 |
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| 1976: | | | | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 1 |
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| 1976: | | | | Television begins satellite delivery at age 1 |
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| 1976: | | | | American Bicentennial at age 1 |
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| 1976: | | | | VHS Video Recordings at age 1 |
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| 1977-1980: | | | | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 2 to age 5 |
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| 1977: | |
| 1978: | | | | Laserdisc video recordings at age 3 |
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| 1978: | | | | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 3 |
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| 1978: | | | | 1st test-tube baby at age 3 |
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| 1979: | | | | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 4 |
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| 1979: | | | | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 4 |
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| 1980: | | | | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 5 |
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| 1981: | |
| 1981: | | | | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 6 |
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| 1981-1988: | | | | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 6 to age 13 |
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| 1981: | | | | 1st female supreme court justice at age 6 |
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| 1982: | | | | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 7 |
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| 1983: | | | | Bluford 1st black in space at age 8 |
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| 1983: | |
| 1983: | | | | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 8 |
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| 1984: | | | | Apple Macintosh Ships at age 9 |
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| 1984: | | | | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 9 |
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| 1985: | | | | Amiga Computer Ships at age 10 |
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| 1986: | | | | Mir space station deployed at age 11 |
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| 1986: | | | | Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 11 |
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| 1986: | | | | Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 11 |
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| 1986: | |
| 1987: | | | | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 12 |
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| 1988: | | | | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 13 |
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| 1989: | | | | Fall of Berlin Wall at age 14 |
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| 1989: | | | | Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 14 |
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| 1989: | | | | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 14 |
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| 1989: | | | | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 14 |
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| 1989-1992: | | | | George Bush president of US from age 14 to age 17 |
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| 1989: | | | | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 14 |
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| 1990: | | | | Hubble space telescope deployed at age 15 |
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| 1990: | |
| 1991: | | | | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 16 |
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| 1991-2003: | | | | 8th Cholera pandemic from age 16 to age 28 |
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| 1992: | | | | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 17 |
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| 1993-2000: | | | | William Clinton president of US from age 18 to age 25 |
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| 1993: | | | | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 18 |
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| 1993: | | | | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 18 |
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| 1994: | | | | South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 19 |
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| 1995: | | | | American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 20 |
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| 1996: | | | | DVD video recordings at age 21 |
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| 1997: | | | | Cloning living beings at age 22 |
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| 1997: | | | | Mars pathfinder lands at age 22 |
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| 1998: | | | | US attacks Iraq, again at age 23 |
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| 1998: | | | | Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 23 |
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| 1998: | | | | 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 23 |
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| 1999: | | | | US attacks Bosnia at age 24 |
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| 2000: | | | | North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 25 |
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| 2000: | | | | Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 25 |
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| 2000: | | | | Working draft of human genome completed at age 25 |
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| 2000: | | | | '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 25 |
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| 2001: | | | | Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 26 |
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| 2001: | | | | US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 26 |
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| 2001: | | | | X-Box console released at age 26 |
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| 2001-2009: | | | | George W. Bush president of US from age 26 to age 34 |
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| 2001: | | | | Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 26 |
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| 2001: | | | | Wikipedia goes online at age 26 |
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| 2001: | | | | Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 26 |
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| 2001: | | | | Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 26 |
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| 2002: | | | | Euro currency introduced at age 27 |
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| 2002: | | | | Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 27 |
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| 2002: | | | | 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 27 |
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| 2003: | | | | Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 28 |
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| 2003: | | | | 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 28 |
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| 2004: | | | | 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 29 |
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| 2004: | | | | Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 29 |
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| 2004: | | | | Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 29 |
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| 2004: | | | | Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 29 |
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| 2004: | | | | Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 29 |
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| 2005: | | | | Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 30 |
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| 2005: | | | | Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 30 |
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| 2005: | | | | Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 30 |
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| 2005: | | | | Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 30 |
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| 2005: | | | | Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 30 |
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| 2005: | | | | NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 30 |
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| 2006: | | | | PS3 ships from Sony at age 31 |
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| 2006: | | | | Americans lose habeas corpus at age 31 |
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| 2006: | | | | Israel attacks Lebanon at age 31 |
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| 2006: | | | | Wii ships from Nintendo at age 31 |
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| 2007: | | | | Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 32 |
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| 2009: | | | | Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 34 |
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| 2009-2012: | | | | Obama president of USA from age 34 until after line end |
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