You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Superman.
In March 2016, Carmen Petaccio wrote about the changes in recent history to comic-book heroes, and how they correlate with times of despair in America.
Around the time you were born, Nazi Germany's military invasion of Poland signaled that World War II had officially begun in Europe.
In February 1937, Henry C. Wolfe wrote about Adolf Hitler's aggressive expansion and how it would affect the nations of Eastern Europe.
You were born in September of 1939. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Dr. X wrote about his experiences as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.
Around your 18th birthday, U.S. troops guarded black children as they entered a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
In September 2014, Noah Gordon wrote about school integration, past and present, in the United States.
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At 29 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 mass-produced personal computers.
In June 2015, David Sims wrote about how Apple and IBM convinced people to buy home computers in the 1970s and '80s.
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In 1984, Tina Turner, who was born the same year as you, released her Private Dancer solo album, featuring singles like "What's Love Got To Do With It." The album went on to win four Grammy Awards.
In January 2013, Esther Zuckerman wrote about Turner's decision to relinquish her U.S. citizenship.
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When you turned 67, 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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