You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without sliced bread.
In February 2012, Art Molella wrote about why sliced bread is "the best thing."
You were born in April of 1929. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.7 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Harvey H. Bundy wrote about insider trading in the American stock market, just months before the crash that precipitated the Great Depression.
Around the time you were born, the first all-Fascist parliament was implemented in Italy.
In August 2016, Ruth Ben-Ghiat reflected on the similarities between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's rise to power almost a century earlier.
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In 1942, Anne Frank, who was born the same year as you, began to write The Diary of a Young Girl while hiding from Nazis with her family in Amsterdam.
In November 2013, Jeremy Elias wrote about the importance of sharing personal accounts of the Holocaust.
Around your 18th birthday, Thor Heyerdahl set sail from Peru to French Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki.
In April 2011, Joe Fassler interviewed David de Rothschild about his modern take on sailing across the ocean.
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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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