You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without Barbie.
In January 2016, Megan Garber wrote about Mattel's move to introduce new Barbie dolls in varied sizes and skin colors.
You were born in September of 1960. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 3 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Eliza Paschall wrote about how participating in the struggle for racial equality affected her identity as a Southerner.
Around the time you were born, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela came together to form OPEC.
In March 1983, four years after the latest global energy crisis, Edward Jay Epstein wrote about the Wizard of Oz-like qualities of the world's largest cartel.
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At 8 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.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
American Graffiti was released in 1973.
Around your 18th birthday, former President Richard Nixon made his first public speech since his resignation.
In August 2014, James Graham wrote a retrospective on Nixon's resignation, 40 years later.
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In 1987, Jennifer Grey, who was born the same year as you, starred in the film Dirty Dancing.
In November 2010, Kevin Fallon wrote about the resurgence of Dirty Dancing in popular culture.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Shark Week.
In August 2012, Ashley Fetters traced the history of cable television's longest-running programming event.
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When you turned 46, 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.
By the time you turn 60, scientists estimate it will no longer be possible to keep global temperatures from rising at least 1.5 degrees Celsius.
In December 2015, Robinson Meyer wrote about why scientists had accepted this fact.
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