You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Batman comics.
In May 2014, Richard A. Warshak explored how a real-life trauma may have impacted Batman's creator and shaped the troubled hero.
Around the time you were born, the Royal Navy obtained an Enigma machine from a captured U-boat.
In August 1989, Paul Fussell wrote an unflinching examination of World War II.
You were born in May of 1941. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, James Marshall responded to Albert Jay Nock's earlier article, entitled "The Jewish Problem in America," arguing that the true problem the country faced was intolerance.
Around your 18th birthday, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first animals retrieved from a space mission.
In March 2013, Megan Garber explained how the Soviet Union used a crash-test dummy to ensure safe human space travel.
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At 28 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 "test-tube babies."
In October 2010, Cristine Russell wrote about the practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF) becoming more common.
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When you turned 66, 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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In 2015, Bernie Sanders, who was born the same year as you, announced that he was running for president as a Democrat.
In January 2016, Molly Ball wrote about Sanders's ascendance in the primaries that year.
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