You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without "talking" movies.
A 1929 cartoon from the Prelinger Archive explained how films spoke.
You were born in August of 1928. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.7 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Neon wrote about how wind, gravity, and other forces would ultimately limit the scope of aviation.
Around the time you were born, Mussolini signed a peace treaty with Abyssinia (known today as Ethiopia).
In September 2010, Nicholas Jackson wrote about the Italians' flying supply column during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Around your 18th birthday, the U.S. tested nuclear weapons in Operation Crossroads.
In December 1946, Karl T. Compton wrote about the U.S.'s decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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In 1962, Andy Warhol, who was born the same year as you, produced his work Campbell's Soup Cans.
In December 2013, Julian Gewirtz wrote about Mao Zedong’s legacy as seen through Warhol’s portraits.
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At 40 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 The Godfather.
In September 2015, David Sims argued that Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas endures as a more realistic, if not more beloved, portrayal of the mafia than even the Francis Ford Coppola classic.
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When you turned 78, 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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