1910-1936: | | | | Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 8 |
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1918-1933: | | | | Prohibition from before birth until age 5 |
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1920-1929: | | | | Roaring 20's from before birth until age 1 |
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1925-1928: | | | | Calvin Coolidge president of US from before birth until age 0 |
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1928: | |
1928: | | | | Video Recordings at age 0 |
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1928: | |
1928: | | | | Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 0 |
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1929: | | | | Stock Market Crash at age 1 |
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1929-1932: | | | | Herbert Hoover president of US from age 1 to age 4 |
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1929-1939: | | | | Great Depression from age 1 to age 11 |
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1930: | | | | Pluto Discovered at age 2 |
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1931-1933: | | | | Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 3 to age 5 |
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1933: | |
1933-1945: | | | | Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 5 to age 17 |
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1933: | | | | Soviet communist party purge at age 5 |
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1933: | | | | Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 5 |
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1934: | | | | Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 6 |
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1935: | |
1935-1936: | | | | Abyssinian war from age 7 to age 8 |
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1936-1952: | | | | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 8 to age 24 |
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1936: | | | | Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 8 |
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1936: | |
1936: | | | | Spanish Civil War at age 8 |
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1937-1945: | | | | Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 9 to age 17 |
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1937: | | | | Nylon (by DuPont) at age 9 |
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1938: | | | | Germany annexes Austria at age 10 |
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1939: | | | | Digital Computer at age 11 |
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1939-1945: | | | | World War II from age 11 to age 17 |
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1939: | | | | Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 11 |
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1940: | | | | 1st black general in US army at age 12 |
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1940: | | | | Color Television at age 12 |
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1941-1945: | | | | Manhattan Project from age 13 to age 17 |
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1942: | | | | Magnetic Recording Tape at age 14 |
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1942: | | | | Nuclear Reactor at age 14 |
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1945: | | | | US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 17 |
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1945-1952: | | | | Harry S Truman president of US from age 17 to age 24 |
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1945: | |
1945: | | | | United Nations formed at age 17 |
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1946: | |
1946-1989: | | | | The Cold War from age 18 to age 61 |
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1947: | | | | India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 19 |
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1947: | |
1947: | | | | UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 19 |
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1948: | | | | Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 20 |
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1948: | |
1948: | | | | Israel inaugurated as state at age 20 |
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1948: | | | | 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 20 |
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1949: | | | | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 21 |
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1949: | | | | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 21 |
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1949: | | | | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 21 |
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1950: | | | | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 22 |
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1950-1954: | | | | McCarthyism from age 22 to age 26 |
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1950-1953: | | | | Korean War from age 22 to age 25 |
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1950: | | | | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 22 |
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1951: | | | | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 23 |
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1952-2050: | | | | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 24 until after line end |
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1952: | | | | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 24 |
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1953-1960: | | | | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 25 to age 32 |
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1954: | | | | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 26 |
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1955: | | | | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 27 |
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1955: | | | | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 27 |
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1955: | | | | Invention of Velcro at age 27 |
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1955: | | | | Warsaw pact formed at age 27 |
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1956: | | | | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 28 |
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1957: | | | | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 29 |
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1958: | | | | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 30 |
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1958: | | | | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 30 |
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1958: | | | | US space agency (NASA) established at age 30 |
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1958: | | | | Integrated Circuit at age 30 |
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1959: | | | | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 31 |
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1959: | | | | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 31 |
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1959: | | | | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 31 |
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1960: | | | | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 32 |
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1960: | | | | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 32 |
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1960: | |
1960: | |
1961: | | | | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 33 |
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1961: | | | | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 33 |
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1961-1970: | | | | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 33 to age 42 |
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1961-1963: | | | | John F Kennedy president of US from age 33 to age 35 |
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1962-1965: | | | | Vatican II from age 34 to age 37 |
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1962: | | | | Cuban missile crisis at age 34 |
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1963: | | | | 1st artificial heart at age 35 |
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1963: | | | | Compact Cassette Recordings at age 35 |
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1963: | | | | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 35 |
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1963-1968: | | | | Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 35 to age 40 |
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1964-1975: | | | | Vietnam War from age 36 to age 47 |
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1964: | | | | US civil rights bill at age 36 |
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1965: | | | | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 37 |
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1965: | | | | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 37 |
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1966: | | | | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 38 |
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1966: | | | | 8-track tape players at age 38 |
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1967: | | | | 1st human heart transplant at age 39 |
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1967: | | | | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 39 |
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1967: | | | | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 39 |
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1967: | | | | Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 39 |
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1967-1970: | | | | Nigerian civil war from age 39 to age 42 |
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1968: | | | | Martin Luther King assassinated at age 40 |
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1968: | | | | Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 40 |
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1969: | | | | Woodstock Music Festival at age 41 |
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1969-1974: | | | | Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 41 to age 46 |
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1969: | | | | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 41 |
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1970: | |
1970: | |
1971: | | | | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 43 |
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1971: | | | | Pakistani civil war at age 43 |
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1973: | | | | October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 45 |
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1973: | |
1974-1976: | | | | Gerald Ford president of US from age 46 to age 48 |
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1974: | | | | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 46 |
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1975: | | | | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 47 |
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1975: | | | | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 47 |
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1975: | | | | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 47 |
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1976: | | | | VHS Video Recordings at age 48 |
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1976: | | | | American Bicentennial at age 48 |
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1976: | | | | Television begins satellite delivery at age 48 |
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1976: | | | | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 48 |
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1977: | |
1977-1980: | | | | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 49 to age 52 |
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1978: | | | | 1st test-tube baby at age 50 |
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1978: | | | | Laserdisc video recordings at age 50 |
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1978: | | | | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 50 |
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1979: | | | | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 51 |
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1979: | | | | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 51 |
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1980: | | | | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 52 |
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1981: | | | | 1st female supreme court justice at age 53 |
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1981-1988: | | | | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 53 to age 60 |
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1981: | | | | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 53 |
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1981: | |
1982: | | | | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 54 |
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1983: | | | | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 55 |
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1983: | | | | Bluford 1st black in space at age 55 |
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1983: | |
1984: | | | | Apple Macintosh Ships at age 56 |
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1984: | | | | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 56 |
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1985: | | | | Amiga Computer Ships at age 57 |
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1986: | | | | Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 58 |
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1986: | | | | Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 58 |
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1986: | | | | Mir space station deployed at age 58 |
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1986: | |
1987: | | | | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 59 |
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1988: | | | | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 60 |
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1989: | | | | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 61 |
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1989: | | | | Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 61 |
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1989: | | | | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 61 |
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1989: | | | | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 61 |
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1989: | | | | Fall of Berlin Wall at age 61 |
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1989-1992: | | | | George Bush president of US from age 61 to age 64 |
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1990: | |
1990: | | | | Hubble space telescope deployed at age 62 |
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1991-2003: | | | | 8th Cholera pandemic from age 63 to age 75 |
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1991: | | | | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 63 |
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1992: | | | | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 64 |
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1993: | | | | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 65 |
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1993-2000: | | | | William Clinton president of US from age 65 to age 72 |
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1993: | | | | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 65 |
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1994: | | | | South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 66 |
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1995: | | | | American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 67 |
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1996: | | | | DVD video recordings at age 68 |
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1997: | | | | Cloning living beings at age 69 |
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1997: | | | | Mars pathfinder lands at age 69 |
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1998: | | | | Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 70 |
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1998: | | | | 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 70 |
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1998: | | | | US attacks Iraq, again at age 70 |
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1999: | | | | US attacks Bosnia at age 71 |
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2000: | | | | Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 72 |
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2000: | | | | North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 72 |
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2000: | | | | '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 72 |
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2000: | | | | Working draft of human genome completed at age 72 |
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2001: | | | | Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 73 |
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2001: | | | | Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 73 |
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2001: | | | | Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 73 |
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2001: | | | | US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 73 |
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2001-2009: | | | | George W. Bush president of US from age 73 to age 81 |
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2001: | | | | Wikipedia goes online at age 73 |
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2001: | | | | Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 73 |
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2001: | | | | X-Box console released at age 73 |
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2002: | | | | 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 74 |
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2002: | | | | Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 74 |
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2002: | | | | Euro currency introduced at age 74 |
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2003: | | | | Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 75 |
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2003: | | | | 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 75 |
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2004: | | | | Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 76 |
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2004: | | | | Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 76 |
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2004: | | | | Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 76 |
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2004: | | | | 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 76 |
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2004: | | | | Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 76 |
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2005: | | | | Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 77 |
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2005: | | | | Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 77 |
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2005: | | | | Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 77 |
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2005: | | | | Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 77 |
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2005: | | | | NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 77 |
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2005: | | | | Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 77 |
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2006: | | | | Wii ships from Nintendo at age 78 |
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2006: | | | | PS3 ships from Sony at age 78 |
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2006: | | | | Americans lose habeas corpus at age 78 |
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2006: | | | | Israel attacks Lebanon at age 78 |
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2007: | | | | Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 79 |
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2009-2012: | | | | Obama president of USA from age 81 until after line end |
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2009: | | | | Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 81 |
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