You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without DC Comics.
In March 2016, Tim Hanley wrote about what happened when DC Comics gave Lois Lane, Superman's perennial love interest, her own comic spinoff.
You were born in October of 1935. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.9 times as old as you.
The year you were born, S. Foster Damon wrote about how Boston became one of America's most prominent cities.
Around the time you were born, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War began when Italy invaded Ethiopia.
In September 2010, Nicholas Jackson wrote about the Italians' flying supply column during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Around your 18th birthday, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved a National Security Council paper defining his administration's aggressive Cold-War military policy.
In September 2012, Evan Thomas wrote about how Eisenhower's "hidden hand" leadership style was poorly understood during his presidency.
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At 33 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.
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In 1971, Elvis Presley, who was born the same year as you, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36 for his popular rock-and-roll albums.
In January 2015, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about the conspiracy theory that "Elvis lives."
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Microsoft.
In February 2000, James Fallows wrote about the time he spent at the company the previous year, designing an updated release of Microsoft Word.
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When you turned 71, 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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