You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without the Walt Disney Company.
In May 2002, Richard Todd wrote about the strange and fascinating experience of traveling to Disney World as an adult.
You were born in November of 1924. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 1.7 times as old as you.
The year you were born, Arthur D. Little wrote about how innovations in areas such as food packaging and steam power were changing everyday life.
Around the time you were born, Calvin Coolidge was reelected to a second term as U.S. president.
In the December 2003 issue, Jack Beatty put Coolidge's failed presidency in the context of the depression the latter fell into after the death of his son.
Around your 18th birthday, Germany invaded Vichy, France, in violation of a 1940 armistice.
In October 2001, Eugen Weber wrote about France's occupation.
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In 1948, Doris Day, who was born the same year as you, starred in the film Romance on the High Seas.
In August 2014, Adrienne LaFrance wrote about the man who collected items from John Updike's trash, including a letter from Day.
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At 44 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 fiber-optic communication.
In May 2015, Nicole Starosielski wrote about the underwater network of fiber-optic cables that supports the internet.
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When you turned 82, 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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