You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without It's A Wonderful Life.
In December 2016, Bourree Lam and Gillian B. White discussed the film's still-relevant financial themes, seventy years after it was first released.
Around the time you were born, 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.
You were born in April of 1947. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, David L. Cohn wrote about changing American attitudes toward marriage and monogamy, as the national divorce rate climbed.
Around your 18th birthday, Gemini 3—the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini space program—was launched.
In April 2012, Alan Taylor published a photo essay on Project Gemini.
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At 22 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 MTV.
In August 2011, Leah Carroll talked with MTV News anchor Kurt Loder on the network's 30th birthday.
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In 1982, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was born the same year as you, starred in the film Conan the Barbarian, which became a box-office hit and introduced him to an American audience.
In November 2007, Schwarzenegger wrote about the need for unity in American politics.
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When you turned 60, 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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