You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without the Winter Olympic Games.
On February 2014, Philip Bump wrote about how different the 1932 Winter Olympics were from the Winter Olympics today.
You were born in October of 1925. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.7 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Ian Colvin wrote about the life, work, and reputation of Winston Churchill, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Around the time you were born, the American Federation of Labor called for a nationwide boycott of nonunion products.
In September 2014, Chad Broughton wrote about the radical history of Labor Day.
Around your 18th birthday, 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.
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At 43 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 fiber-optic communication.
In May 2015, Nicole Starosielski wrote about the underwater network of fiber-optic cables that supports the internet.
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In 1979, Margaret Thatcher, who was born the same year as you, became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.
In April 2013, Matthew Cooper wrote about the challenges Thatcher faced during her time in office, and how she responded.
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When you turned 81, 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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