You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without the Miss America pageant.
In September 2016, Megan Garber wrote about the dubious merits of the pageant's question and answer segment.
Around the time you were born, Vladimir Lenin appointed Joseph Stalin to general secretary of the Russian Communist Party.
In November 2014, Anne Applebaum wrote about how Stalin was a rational ideologue.
You were born in April of 1922. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.6 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Edmund Candler wrote about the international influence and reputation of Mahatma Gandhi.
Around your 18th birthday, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in Operation Weserübung.
In July 2011, The Atlantic looked back on the photos of World War II.
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At 47 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 Sesame Street.
In June 2015, Alia Wong wrote about the educational benefits of the beloved show.
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In 1985, Betty White, who was born the same year as you, began starring in the sitcom The Golden Girls.
In March 2010, Niraj Chokshi wrote about White's career.
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When you turned 85, 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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