You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without the atomic bomb.
In February 1949, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, wrote that the United States must approach its international responsibility for the atomic bomb with an open mind.
Around the time you were born, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled an interstate travel segregation law illegal.
In July 2015, Alana Semuels wrote about white flight and segregation.
You were born in June of 1946. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Karl T. Compton wrote about the effect of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II—and the potential cost had they not been used.
Around your 18th birthday, the Ford Mustang was formally introduced.
In November 2013, Conor Friedersdorf excerpted an interview with Ford's mid-century CEO on his business model.
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At 23 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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When you turned 61, 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 2016, Donald Trump, who was born the same year as you, was elected president of the United States.
In June 2016, Dan P. McAdams wrote about the psychology of a mind like Trump's.
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