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1899-1923 |
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6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 13 |
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1901-1910 |
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Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from
before birth until age 0 |
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1909-1912 |
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William Howard Taft president of US from before
birth until age 2 |
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1910 |
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Japan annexes Korea at age 0 |
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1910-1936 |
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Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 0 to 26 |
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1911 |
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South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 1 |
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1912 |
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New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 2 |
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1912 |
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Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 2 |
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1912 |
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Alaska organized as a territory at age 2 |
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1912 |
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Titanic sinks at age 2 |
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1913-1920 |
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Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 3 to 10 |
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1914-1919 |
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World
War I from age 4 to 9 |
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1914 |
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The Bra at age 4 |
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1915 |
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 5 |
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1916 |
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Sonar at age 6 |
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1916 |
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Irish
Easter Rebellion at age 6 |
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1917 |
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US enters WWI at age 7 |
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1917 |
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Russian revolution at age 7 |
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1918-1920 |
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Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 8 to 10 |
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1918-1933 |
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Prohibition from age 8 to 23 |
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1919 |
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Shortwave Radio at age 9 |
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1919 |
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League of Nations instantiated at age 9 |
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1920-1929 |
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Roaring 20's from age 10 to 19 |
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1920 |
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Women
receive right to vote in USA at age 10 |
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1920 |
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Palestine established at age 10 |
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1921-1924 |
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Warren G Harding president of US from age 11 to 14 |
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1922 |
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Insulin made available to diabetics at age 12 |
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1925-1928 |
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Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 15 to 18 |
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1925 |
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Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 15 |
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1926 |
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Sound in Movies at age 16 |
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1927 |
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1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 17 |
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1927 |
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Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 17 |
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1928 |
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Geiger Counter at age 18 |
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1928 |
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Video Recordings at age 18 |
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1928 |
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Penicillin invented by Sir Alexander Fleming at
age 18 |
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1928 |
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Television at age 18 |
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1929-1939 |
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Great Depression from age 19 to 29 |
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1929 |
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Stock Market Crash at age 19 |
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1929-1932 |
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Herbert Hoover president of US from age 19 to 22 |
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1930 |
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Pluto Discovered at age 20 |
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1931-1933 |
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Chinese-Japanese
war (2) from age 21 to 23 |
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1933 |
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Soviet communist party purge at age 23 |
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1933-1945 |
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Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age
23 to 35 |
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1933 |
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Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 23 |
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1933 |
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Radio Astronomy at age 23 |
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1935 |
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Dustbowl at age 25 |
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1935-1936 |
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Abyssinian
war from age 25 to 26 |
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1936 |
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Helicopter at age 26 |
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1936-1952 |
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Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 26
to 42 |
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1936 |
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Spanish
Civil War at age 26 |
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1936 |
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Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 26 |
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1937 |
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Nylon (by DuPont) at age 27 |
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1937-1945 |
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Chinese-Japanese
war (3) from age 27 to 35 |
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1938 |
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Germany annexes Austria at age 28 |
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1939-1945 |
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World
War II from age 29 to 35 |
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1939 |
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Digital Computer at age 29 |
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1939 |
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Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 29 |
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1940 |
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Color Television at age 30 |
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1940 |
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1st black general in US army at age 30 |
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1941-1945 |
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Manhatten Project from age 31 to 35 |
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1942 |
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Magnetic Recording Tape at age 32 |
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1942 |
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Nuclear Reactor at age 32 |
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1945 |
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United Nations formed at age 35 |
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1945 |
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US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 35 |
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1945 |
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Hypertext at age 35 |
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1945-1952 |
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Harry S Truman president of US from age 35 to 42 |
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1946-1989 |
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The Cold War from age 36 until after death |
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1946 |
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The Bikini at age 36 |
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1947 |
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Transistor at age 37 |
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1947 |
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UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab
sections at age 37 |
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1948 |
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NATO formed at age 38 |
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1948 |
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Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at
age 38 |
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1948 |
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33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 38 |
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1948 |
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Israel inaugurated as state at age 38 |
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1949 |
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Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 39 |
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1949 |
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45 rpm musical recordings at age 39 |
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1949 |
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Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 39 |
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1950-1953 |
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Korean
War from age 40 to 43 |
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1950-1954 |
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McCarthyism from age 40 to 44 |
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1950 |
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Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 40 |
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1950 |
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World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 40 |
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1951 |
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Electricity from Atomic Power at age 41 |
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1952-2000 |
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age
42 until after death |
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1952 |
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1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 42 |
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1953-1960 |
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Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 43
to 50 |
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1954 |
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Racial segregation in schools ruled
unconstitutional at age 44 |
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1955 |
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Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 45 |
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1955 |
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Warsaw pact formed at age 45 |
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1956 |
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Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the
Stockholm, sinks at age 46 |
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1957 |
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Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at
age 47 |
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1958 |
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FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 48 |
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1958 |
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Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 48 |
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1958 |
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US space agency (NASA) established at age 48 |
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1958 |
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Integrated
Circuit at age 48 |
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1959 |
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Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 49 |
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1959 |
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1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at
age 49 |
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1959 |
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Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 49 |
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1960 |
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Laser at age 50 |
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1960 |
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World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton
at age 50 |
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1960 |
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Pantyhose at age 50 |
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1960 |
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1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 50 |
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1961-1970 |
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7th Cholera pandemic from age 51 to 60 |
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1961 |
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First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 51 |
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1961 |
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1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 51 |
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1961-1963 |
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John F Kennedy president of US from age 51 to 53 |
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1962-1965 |
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Vatican II from age 52 to 55 |
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1962 |
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Cuban missile crisis at age 52 |
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1963 |
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Compact Cassette Recordings at age 53 |
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1963 |
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1st artificial heart at age 53 |
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1963-1968 |
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Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 53 to 58 |
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1963 |
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Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 53 |
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1964-1975 |
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Vietnam
War from age 54 to 65 |
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1964 |
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US civil rights bill at age 54 |
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1965 |
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1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 55 |
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1965 |
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Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at
age 55 |
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1966 |
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8-track tape players at age 56 |
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1966 |
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1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 56 |
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1967 |
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Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole
at age 57 |
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1967 |
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Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 57 |
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1967 |
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Six
day war: Israel-Arabs at age 57 |
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1967-1970 |
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Nigerian
civil war from age 57 to 60 |
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1967 |
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1st human heart transplant at age 57 |
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1968 |
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Martin Luther King assassinated at age 58 |
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1968 |
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Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 58 |
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1969 |
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Woodstock Music Festival at age 59 |
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1969 |
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Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at
age 59 |
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1969-1974 |
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Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 59 to 64 |
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1970 |
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Microprocessor at age 60 |
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1970 |
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Nat.
Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 60 |
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1971 |
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Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 61 |
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1971 |
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Pakistani
civil war at age 61 |
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1973 |
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The Internet at age 63 |
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1973 |
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October
war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 63 |
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1974-1976 |
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Gerald Ford president of US from age 64 to 66 |
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1974 |
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Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 64 |
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1975 |
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Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 65 |
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1975 |
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The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 65 |
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1976 |
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VHS Video Recordings at age 66 |
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1976 |
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Whites accept principle of black majority rule in
S. Africa at age 66 |
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1976 |
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American Bicentennial at age 66 |
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1977 |
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Neutron bomb at age 67 |
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1977-1980 |
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James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age
67 to 70 |
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1978 |
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Laserdisc video recordings at age 68 |
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1978 |
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1st test-tube baby at age 68 |
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1979 |
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Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 69 |
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1979 |
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Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK
at age 69 |
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1980 |
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Mount
St. Helens Erupts at age 70 |
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1981 |
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IBM PC ships at age 71 |
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1981-1988 |
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Ronald Reagan president of US from age 71 until
after death |
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1981 |
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1st
space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 71 |
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1981 |
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1st female supreme court justice at age 71 |
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1982 |
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1st geneticly engineered product - insulin at age 72 |
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1983 |
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Bluford 1st black in space at age 73 |
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1983 |
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Compact Disks at age 73 |
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1983 |
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Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 73 |
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1984 |
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HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 74 |
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1984 |
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Apple Macintosh Ships at age 74 |
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1985 |
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Amiga
Computer Ships at age 75 |
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1986 |
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Shuttle
Challenger explodes at age 76 |
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1986 |
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Mir space station deployed at age 76 |
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1986 |
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Chernobyl
power plant melts down at age 76 |
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