Y’all think you’re old. Check this out. But honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. If anything, I sometimes wish I’d been born 10 years sooner so I could have experienced the 60s in a different way. But I’ve lived through some interesting times.
As an infant
20th Dec 1957 The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time (you were 29 days old)
8th Jan 1958 Bobby Fischer wins his first Chess Championship at the age of 14 (you were 1 month old)
31st Jan 1958 The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. (you were 2 months old)
6th Feb 1958 Seven Manchester United footballers killed in the Munich Air Disaster (you were 2 months old)
27th Mar 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union (you were 4 months old)
4th Oct 1958 BOAC launches the first transatlantic service by jet airliner (you were 10 months old)
3rd Jan 1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state (you were 1 year old)
6th Jan 1959 Fidel Castro arrives in Havana victorious (you were 1 year old)
3rd Feb 1959 Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper die in a plane crash (you were 1 year old)
17th Feb 1959 First weather satellite is launched (you were 1 year old)
6th Mar 1959 The Integrated Circuit is introduced to public (you were 1 year old)
9th Mar 1959 The first Barbie doll debuts (you were 1 year old)
4th May 1959 The first Grammy Awards ceremony is held (you were 1 year old)
16th Sep 1959 Xerox launch their first plain paper copier (you were 1 year old)
19th Sep 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is banned from visiting Disneyland (you were 1 year old)
13th Feb 1960 France tests its first atomic bomb (you were 2 years old)
6th Mar 1960 The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam (you were 2 years old)
21st Mar 1960 The Sharpeville massacre in South Africa leaves over 69 dead (you were 2 years old)
28th Mar 1960 The first permanent Star is placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (you were 2 years old)
4th Apr 1960 Elvis Presley’s song “Are You Lonesome Tonight” is recorded for the first time (you were 2 years old)
1st May 1960 American U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia, pilot Gary Powers captured (you were 2 years old)
11th May 1960 Nazi Adolf Eichmann is abducted from Argentina by Israeli agents (you were 2 years old)
16th May 1960 T.H. Maiman operates the first functioning laser (you were 2 years old)
25th Aug 1960 The Summer Olympics open in Rome (you were 2 years old)
30th Sep 1960 Cartoon The Flintstones debuts on ABC (you were 2 years old)
20th Jan 1961 John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th president of the USA (you were 3 years old)
31st Jan 1961 Ham the Chimp travels into outer space (you were 3 years old)
15th Feb 1961 73 killed, including the entire US Figure Skating team, in a Sabena 707 crash (you were 3 years old)
12th Apr 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space (you were 3 years old)
17th Apr 1961 The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba starts (you were 3 years old)
5th May 1961 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space (you were 3 years old)
13th Aug 1961 Construction of the Berlin Wall begins (you were 3 years old)
1st Oct 1961 Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season (you were 3 years old)
30th Oct 1961 The Soviet Union detonates the 58 megaton “Tsar Bomba”, the largest ever man-made explosion (you were 3 years old)
10th Nov 1961 Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller (you were 3 years old)
20th Feb 1962 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth (you were 4 years old)
2nd Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA basketball game (you were 4 years old)
2nd Jul 1962 The first Walmart store opens in Rogers, Arkansas (you were 4 years old)
9th Jul 1962 Andy Warhol premieres his Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibit in Los Angeles (you were 4 years old)
5th Aug 1962 Movie star Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles home (you were 4 years old)
5th Oct 1962 The Beatles’ first single “Love Me Do” is released (you were 4 years old)
5th Oct 1962 Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premieres in UK theaters (you were 4 years old)
14th Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins after US spy planes spot Russian nuclear weapons in Cuba (you were 4 years old)
28th Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends with the Soviets agreeing to removal of their missiles from Cuba (you were 4 years old)
22nd Mar 1963 The Beatles release their first album “Please Please Me” (you were 5 years old)
16th Jun 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to go to space (you were 5 years old)
28th Aug 1963 Martin Luther King delivers his historic “I Have a Dream” speech (you were 5 years old)
22nd Nov 1963 John F. Kennedy, US President, is assassinated in Dallas, Texas (you were 6 years old)
22nd Nov 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president of the USA (you were 6 years old)
23rd Nov 1963 Doctor Who, a British science-fiction television programme is first aired on BBC1 (you were 6 years old)
24th Nov 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas (you were 6 years old)
29th Jan 1964 The 1964 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria (you were 6 years old)
1st Feb 1964 The Beatles start the British Invasion in America with “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (you were 6 years old)
11th Feb 1964 Greeks & Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus (you were 6 years old)
27th Feb 1964 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over (you were 6 years old)
6th Mar 1964 Constantine II becomes King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul (you were 6 years old)
15th Mar 1964 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) in Montreal (you were 6 years old)
27th Mar 1964 The Great Alaskan earthquake hits with a magnitude of 9.2 (you were 6 years old)
7th Apr 1964 IBM announces the System/360 (you were 6 years old)
16th Apr 1964 The Rolling Stones release their debut album, The Rolling Stones (you were 6 years old)
17th Apr 1964 The Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public (you were 6 years old)
20th Apr 1964 Nelson Mandela makes his “I Am Prepared to Die” speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial (you were 6 years old)
4th May 1964 The United States Congress recognized Bourbon whiskey as a "distinctive product of the United States (you were 6 years old)
31st Jul 1964 Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the Moon (you were 6 years old)
10th Oct 1964 The 1964 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo (you were 6 years old)
29th Oct 1964 A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including Star of India, is stolen from the AMNH in New York (you were 6 years old)
10th Dec 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (you were 7 years old)
30th Jan 1965 The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place (you were 7 years old)
15th Feb 1965 A new red and white maple leaf design is inaugurated as the flag of Canada (you were 7 years old)
20th Feb 1965 Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon (you were 7 years old)
2nd Mar 1965 The Sound of Music premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City (you were 7 years old)
18th Mar 1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (you were 7 years old)
25th May 1965 Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their championship rematch (you were 7 years old)
26th Jul 1965 The Maldives receive full independence from Great Britain (you were 7 years old)
15th Aug 1965 The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock (you were 7 years old)
25th Sep 1965 The Tom & Jerry cartoon series makes its world broadcast premiere on CBS (you were 7 years old)
5th Dec 1965Charles de Gaulle is re-elected as French president (you were 8 years old)
11th Jan 1966 The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB (you were 8 years old)
6th Feb 1966 The TV series Mister Ed airs its final episode (ran 1961-66) (you were 8 years old)
1st Mar 1966 Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus (you were 8 years old)
10th Mar 1966 Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg (you were 8 years old)
8th Apr 1966 Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union (you were 8 years old)
24th Apr 1966 Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America (you were 8 years old)
28th May 1966 It’s a Small World opens at Disneyland (you were 8 years old)
27th Jun 1966 The gothic soap opera Dark Shadows premieres on ABC (you were 8 years old)
5th Aug 1966 The Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas (you were 8 years old)
8th Sep 1966 Star Trek , an American science fiction television series is first aired on NBC (you were 8 years old)
9th Nov 1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery (you were 8 years old)
15th Dec 1966 Walt Disney dies while producing The Jungle Book (you were 9 years old)
18th Dec 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, is shown for the first time on CBS (you were 9 years old)
4th Jan 1967 The Doors’ self-titled debut album is released (you were 9 years old)
15th Jan 1967 The first Superbowl is played (you were 9 years old)
1st May 1967 Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas (you were 9 years old)
1st Jun 1967 The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (you were 9 years old)
5th Aug 1967 Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom (you were 9 years old)
9th Oct 1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara executed in Bolivia (you were 9 years old)
16th Feb 1968 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service (you were 10 years old)
1st Mar 1968 “I’ve Been Loving You”, the debut single by Elton John is released (you were 10 years old)
3rd Apr 1968Planet of the Apes is released in theaters (you were 10 years old)
4th Apr 1968Martin Luther King is shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee (you were 10 years old)
20th Aug 1968 The Prague Spring ends as 750,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia (you were 10 years old)
20th Sep 1968 TV Series “Hawaii Five-O” debuts on CBS (you were 10 years old)
10th Oct 1968 The Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals (you were 10 years old)
12th Jan 1969 Led Zeppelin, the first Led Zeppelin album, is released (you were 11 years old)
20th Jan 1969 Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president of the USA (you were 11 years old)
8th Feb 1969 The Allende meteorite explodes above Mexico (you were 11 years old)
9th Feb 1969 The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight. (you were 11 years old)
2nd Mar 1969 First flight of supersonic airliner Concorde (you were 11 years old)
20th Mar 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar (you were 11 years old)
20th Jul 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step onto the Moon (you were 11 years old)
13th Sep 1969 The first episode of Scooby Doo is broadcast on CBS (you were 11 years old)
29th Oct 1969 The first message is sent over ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet. (you were 11 years old)
10th Nov 1969 Sesame Street premiers on National Educational Television network (you were 11 years old)
5th Jan 1970 The first episode of All My Chidren is broadcast on ABC (you were 12 years old)
10th Apr 1970 The Beatles break up with the announcement of Paul McCartney that he is to quit (you were 12 years old)
17th Apr 1970 Apollo 13 returns safely to earth after explosion cripples craft en-route to the Moon (you were 12 years old)
4th May 1970 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen (you were 12 years old)
8th May 1970 The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be. (you were 12 years old)
18th Sep 1970 Jimi Hendrix dies in London (you were 12 years old)
19th Sep 1970 The Mary Tyler Moore Show debuts on CBS (you were 12 years old)
25th Sep 1970 The Partridge Family debuts on ABC (you were 12 years old)
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