You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without T-shirts.
In September 2013, Cameron Kunzelman wrote about black T-shirts and the powerful men who wear them.
Around the time you were born, Italian Prime Minister Pietro Badoglio declared war on Germany.
In July 2000, Francis X. Rocca wrote about Facism in Italy in the 1930s and '40s.
You were born in October of 1943. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Wilson Harris wrote about how then-Princess Elizabeth's education compared with that of an American girl of the same age.
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In 1958, George Harrison, who was born the same year as you, joined John Lennon and Paul McCartney's band, which would eventually become the Beatles.
In June 2013, Colin Fleming wrote about 1963 as a formative year for the Beatles.
Around your 18th birthday, the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking was published.
In August 2009, Angus Whyte wrote about cooking for the book's celebrated author, Julia Child.
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At 25 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 hip-hop records.
In March 2015, Irvin Weathersby Jr. wrote about what hip-hop can teach Americans.
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When you turned 63, 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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