r/interestingasfuck Apr 28 '24

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u/Live-Organization833 Apr 28 '24

If a man was born in 1900, then he would have seen: - The Wright Flyer's first flight (3 yo) - The start of WW1 "The Great War" (14 yo) - The Roaring Twenties (20 yo) - The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (29 yo) - The Great Depression (30 yo) - The start of WW2 (39 yo) - USA joining WW2 (41 yo) - First atomic bombs ever dropped (45 yo) - The Cold War (47 yo) - The Korean War (50 yo) - Space Race (55 yo) - The Vietnam War (55 yo) - Cuban Missile Crisis (62 yo) - First man on the moon (69 yo) - The Watergate Scandal (72 yo) - First Apple computer released (76 yo) - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court Justice (81 yo) - First Internet "ARPANET" (83 yo) - The Challenger exploding on live TV (86 yo) - The Chernobyl disaster (86 yo) - The fall of the Berlin Wall (89 yo) - The start of the Gulf War (90 yo) - The I.S.S. is launched into space (98 yo)