You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without the Academy Awards.
In March 1948, Raymond Chandler disparaged the Oscars for rewarding mass apeal over artistry.
You were born in July of 1930. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.8 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Edgar Lawrence Smith wrote about how debit balances doomed the American economic system, just months after the Great Depression began.
Around the time you were born, an earthquake struck Irpinia in Southern Italy, killing more than 2,000.
In August 2016, Alan Taylor reported on an Italian earthquake.
Around your 18th birthday, President Harry Truman signed an executive order ending racial segregation in the military.
In May 1986, Charles C. Moskos wrote about the success of this effort; by then, black Americans in the military were entering management positions at a higher rate than in any other industry.
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In 1956, Anne Francis, who was born the same year as you, starred in the film Forbidden Planet.
In June 2013, Christine Folch wrote about the West's love for fantasy and sci-fi films.
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At 39 years old, you were alive to behold people walking on the moon.
Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after cell phones.
In April 2013, Megan Garber wrote about the swift and spiteful final push to invent the cell phone.
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When you turned 76, you watched humankind reach the outer solar system.
With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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