You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Little House on the Prairie.
In April 2011, Wendy McClure wrote about the enduring charm of Laura Ingalls Wilder's frontier stories.
You were born in April of 1933. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.9 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Edith Wharton wrote about her creative process, thirteen years after winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Around the time you were born, Germany enacted a law expelling non-Aryans from government jobs.
In March 1932, Nicolas Fairweather wrote an overview of Adolf Hitler's agenda as an aspiring dictator.
Around your 18th birthday, the controversial espionage trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife, Ethel Rosenberg, began.
In July 1952, Charles E. Wyzanski described the motivations and obligations of a trial judge.
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In 1965, James Brown, who was born the same year as you, released "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," which was Brown's first hit to reach the Billboard top 10. The song won Brown his first Grammy at the ceremonies the following year.
In April 2013, John Lingan wrote about Brown's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, and his and Nina Simone's responses to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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At 36 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 commercial bar-code scanning.
In November 2014, Sarah Laskow described the decades-long development of the modern bar code.
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When you turned 74, 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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