| 1936-1952 | | Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from before birth until age 3 |
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| 1945-1952 | | Harry S Truman president of US from before birth until age 3 |
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| 1946-1989 | | The Cold War from before birth until age 40 |
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| 1949-1960 | | Paige family on Leroy St., Jackson, MI from age 0 to 11 |
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| 1949 | | Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 0 |
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| 1949 | | 45 rpm musical recordings at age 0 |
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| 1949 | | Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 0 |
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| 1950 | | World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 1 |
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| 1950-1954 | | McCarthyism from age 1 to 5 |
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| 1950-1953 | | Korean War from age 1 to 4 |
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| 1950 | | Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 1 |
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| 1951 | | Electricity from Atomic Power at age 2 |
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| 1952 | | 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 3 |
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| 1952-2050 | | Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 3 until after timeline |
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| 1953-1960 | | Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 4 to 11 |
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| 1954 | | Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 5 |
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| 1955 | | Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 6 |
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| 1955 | | Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 6 |
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| 1955 | | Warsaw pact formed at age 6 |
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| 1955 | | Invention of Velcro at age 6 |
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| 1956 | | Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 7 |
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| 1957 | | Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 8 |
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| 1958 | | Integrated Circuit at age 9 |
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| 1958 | | FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 9 |
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| 1958 | | Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 9 |
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| 1958 | | US space agency (NASA) established at age 9 |
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| 1959 | | 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 10 |
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| 1959 | | Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 10 |
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| 1959 | | Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 10 |
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| 1960-1965 | | Paige family on Wooster Rd., Jackson, MI from age 11 to 16 |
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| 1960 | | Pantyhose at age 11 |
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| 1960 | | World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 11 |
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| 1960 | | 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 11 |
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| 1960 | | Laser at age 11 |
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| 1961 | | First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 12 |
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| 1961 | | 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 12 |
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| 1961-1970 | | 7th Cholera pandemic from age 12 to 21 |
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| 1961-1963 | | John F Kennedy president of US from age 12 to 14 |
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| 1962-1965 | | Vatican II from age 13 to 16 |
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| 1962 | | Cuban missile crisis at age 13 |
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| 1963 | | Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 14 |
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| 1963 | | Compact Cassette Recordings at age 14 |
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| 1963 | | 1st artificial heart at age 14 |
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| 1963-1968 | | Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 14 to 19 |
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| 1964 | | US civil rights bill at age 15 |
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| 1964-1975 | | Vietnam War from age 15 to 26 |
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| 1965 | | Howard and Jennie Paige divorced at age 16 |
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| 1965-1967 | | Charles worked Arbor Hills Country Club from age 16 to 18 |
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| 1965 | | Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 16 |
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| 1965 | | 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 16 |
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| 1966 | | 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 17 |
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| 1966 | | 8-track tape players at age 17 |
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| 1967-1968 | | Charles worked Holda's Home Appliances from age 18 to 19 |
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| 1967 | | Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 18 |
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| 1967 | | Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 18 |
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| 1967 | | 1st human heart transplant at age 18 |
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| 1967 | | Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 18 |
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| 1967-1970 | | Nigerian civil war from age 18 to 21 |
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| 1968-1972 | | Charles on Active Duty in US Navy from age 19 to 23 |
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| 1968 | | Martin Luther King assassinated at age 19 |
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| 1968 | | Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 19 |
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| 1969 | | Woodstock Music Festival at age 20 |
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| 1969-1974 | | Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 20 to 25 |
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| 1969 | | Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 20 |
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| 1970 | | Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 21 |
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| 1970 | | Microprocessor at age 21 |
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| 1971 | | Charles 1st Westpack cruise on Midway at age 22 |
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| 1971 | | Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 22 |
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| 1971 | | Pakistani civil war at age 22 |
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| 1972 | | Charles 2nd Westpack cruise on Midway at age 23 |
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| 1973 | | The Internet at age 24 |
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| 1973 | | October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 24 |
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| 1974 | | Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 25 |
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| 1974-1976 | | Gerald Ford president of US from age 25 to 27 |
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| 1975 | | Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 26 |
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| 1975 | | The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 26 |
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| 1975 | | Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 26 |
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| 1976 | | American Bicentennial at age 27 |
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| 1976 | | VHS Video Recordings at age 27 |
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| 1976 | | Television begins satellite delivery at age 27 |
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| 1976 | | Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 27 |
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| 1977 | | Neutron bomb at age 28 |
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| 1977-1980 | | James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 28 to 31 |
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| 1978 | | 1st test-tube baby at age 29 |
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| 1978 | | Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 29 |
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| 1978 | | Laserdisc video recordings at age 29 |
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| 1979 | | Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 30 |
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| 1979 | | Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 30 |
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| 1980 | | Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 31 |
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| 1981 | | IBM PC ships at age 32 |
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| 1981 | | 1st female supreme court justice at age 32 |
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| 1981 | | 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 32 |
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| 1981-1988 | | Ronald Reagan president of US from age 32 to 39 |
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| 1982 | | 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 33 |
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| 1983 | | Bluford 1st black in space at age 34 |
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| 1983 | | Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 34 |
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| 1983 | | Compact Disks at age 34 |
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| 1984 | | Apple Macintosh Ships at age 35 |
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| 1984 | | HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 35 |
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| 1985 | | Amiga Computer Ships at age 36 |
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| 1986 | | Mir space station deployed at age 37 |
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| 1986 | | Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 37 |
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| 1986 | | Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 37 |
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| 1986 | | Halley's Comet at age 37 |
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| 1987 | | 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 38 |
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| 1988 | | Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 39 |
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| 1989 | | US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 40 |
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| 1989 | | Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 40 |
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| 1989 | | Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 40 |
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| 1989 | | Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 40 |
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| 1989-1992 | | George Bush president of US from age 40 to 43 |
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| 1989 | | Fall of Berlin Wall at age 40 |
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| 1990 | | World Wide Web at age 41 |
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| 1990 | | Hubble space telescope deployed at age 41 |
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| 1991-2003 | | 8th Cholera pandemic from age 42 to 54 |
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| 1991 | | Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 42 |
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| 1992 | | USS Midway decommissioned at age 43 |
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| 1992 | | Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 43 |
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| 1993 | | Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 44 |
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| 1993-2000 | | William Clinton president of US from age 44 to 51 |
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| 1993 | | Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 44 |
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| 1994 | | South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 45 |
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| 1995 | | American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 46 |
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| 1996 | | DVD video recordings at age 47 |
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| 1997 | | Mars pathfinder lands at age 48 |
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| 1997 | | Cloning living beings at age 48 |
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| 1998 | | US attacks Iraq, again at age 49 |
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| 1998 | | Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 49 |
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| 1998 | | 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 49 |
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| 1999 | | US attacks Bosnia at age 50 |
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| 2000 | | '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 51 |
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| 2000 | | Working draft of human genome completed at age 51 |
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| 2000 | | North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 51 |
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| 2000 | | Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 51 |
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| 2001 | | Wikipedia goes online at age 52 |
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| 2001 | | Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths at age 52 |
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| 2001 | | Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 52 |
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| 2001 | | US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 52 |
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| 2001-2009 | | George W. Bush president of US from age 52 until after timeline |
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| 2001 | | Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 52 |
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| 2001 | | Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 52 |
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| 2001 | | X-Box console released at age 52 |
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| 2002 | | Euro currency introduced at age 53 |
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| 2002 | | Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 53 |
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| 2002 | | 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 53 |
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| 2003 | | 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 54 |
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| 2003 | | Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 54 |
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| 2004 | | Midway returns San Diego for keeps at age 55 |
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| 2004 | | Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 55 |
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| 2004 | | Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - dec 26 at age 55 |
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| 2004 | | Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 55 |
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| 2004 | | Water verified present on mars by Odyssey lander at age 55 |
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| 2004 | | 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 55 |
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| 2005 | | Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 56 |
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| 2005 | | NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 56 |
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| 2005 | | Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 56 |
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| 2005 | | Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 56 |
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| 2005 | | Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 56 |
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| 2005 | | Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 56 |
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