You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without DC Comics.
In March 2016, Tim Hanley wrote about what happened when DC Comics gave Lois Lane, Superman's perennial love interest, her own comic spinoff.
Around the time you were born, Louisiana Senator Huey Long was assassinated by the physician Carl Weiss.
In October 2016, Larry Diamond wrote about problems with democracy in the U.S. and the world.
You were born in September of 1935. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.9 times as old as you.
The year you were born, S. Foster Damon wrote about how Boston became one of America's most prominent cities.
Around your 18th birthday, the United Kingdom and United States worked to successfully overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and replace him with monarch rule.
In July 2015, Leon Wieseltier wrote about President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran in light of the long, fraught history of relationships between the two nations.
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In 1964, Julie Andrews, who was born the same year as you, made her feature-film debut in Mary Poppins, which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In November 2010, Cailey Hall wrote about the legacy and remastering of The Sound of Music.
NASA
At 33 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 Microsoft.
In February 2000, James Fallows wrote about the time he spent at the company the previous year, designing an updated release of Microsoft Word.
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When you turned 71, 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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