You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without color-TV broadcasting.
In June 2015, Benjamin Gross wrote about the impact of using live models to calibrate color TVs in the 1950s.
You were born in September of 1952. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Arthur E. Sutherland wrote about the obligation of the press to tell the "whole truth," despite growing challenges.
Around the time you were born, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis performed the first successful open-heart surgery.
In June 2012, Monica Smith wrote about the birth of the pacemaker at the behest of the first open-heart surgeons.
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This is what Hollywood thought teenagers looked like the year you became one.
Beach Blanket Bingo was released in 1965.
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At 16 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.
Around your 18th birthday, an assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan started the Black September crisis.
In April 2013, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote about how Jordan's current king, Abdullah II, is responding to the social and political transformations reshaping the Middle East.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after Macintosh computers.
In June 2012, Megan Garber wrote about how Apple computers, once thought to be virus-immune, can now get PC viruses.
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In 1995, Christine Baranski, who was born the same year as you, received her first of 15 Emmy nominations for her role in the sitcom Cybill, and won.
In August 2014, Esther Zuckerman wrote about the dramatic performances given by the women in the Best Supporting Actress category of that year's Emmys.
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When you turned 54, 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 68, 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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