Born in '73. Take 41 off of that gives us 1932. In that year:
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[li] The Lindbergh baby was kidnapped[/li][li]The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened[/li][li]The July Reichstag election led the Nazis becoming the largest party in the Reichstag[/li][li]FDR was elected President for the first time. [/li][/ul]
I’m 69. In 1876:
I’m 48 - born in 1966.
1918 was full of interest…
I’m 53, born in 1961. WWII ended only 15yrs before I was born. Only 15 years! 15 years ago, Celine Dion was singing the theme to Titanic at the Grammy Awards, and Clinton was being impeached.
But 53yrs before I was born was 1908, and these events happened:
I was born in 1974. On the day exactly as many days before I was born as have passed since I was born, “Baby Face” Nelson murdered two FBI agents before dying of gunshot wounds.
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I’m 56, so that many years before I was born it was the year 1902. Depending on the location and situation that time can seem extremely remote; I think one reason for this is that, for people our age, many of our typical family stories happened on farms or in remote rural villages. All of my grandparents were born between 1988 and 1896, and only one of them in a large city (Chicago). Not even radio existed as a medium for entertainment, and telephones were still somewhat rare.
By contrast, World War II ended in 1945, less than thirteen years before my arrival.
As different as life was in 1945 compared to now, I still think of that era as having been completely modern from a historical perspective, in contrast to, say, the time of the Lincoln administration. Sure, there were always TVs in my life, which most people didn’t have in the 1940s, but otherwise the time in which I grew up seemed like a simple continuation of the world the way it had been in 1945. Jet airliners were just coming in, but there was already an extensive network of air routes; you could fly to most places, but it was expensive and slow compared to today. Even the space race could be traced back to the Germans’ development and use of V2 rockets during the war.
Born in early 1943. The war was not going well for the Allies, but things would be looking up soon on the military front. However, domestic production was very low and it would take a bit of time after the war to get the economies going, depending on what nation you were in.
In western Europe and Canada and the USA, there was an emerging economic boom to a lesser or greater degree. That was not the case in Eastern Europe and the Balkan states.
That is an oversimplified viewpoint, but I was a kid and got my knowledge from radio and the newspaper.
I was born in 1967, and am 47 years old. In 1920, the 19th amendment was passed, giving women the vote in all 48 states in the US, and any future states to join the union.
54 years before me is after Queen Victoria died, after the Boer Wars finished, and after the Wright brothers, but before Bleriot crossed the Channel (and the year of the first powered flight in Europe). Although WW1 was not yet a cloud on the horizon, the launch of HMS Dreadnaught saw the start of an Anglo-German naval arms race, they had a big earthquake in San Francisco, and the SOS signal was internationalised.
I’m fifty. JFK was shot fifty years ago. A lot of big events happened a short time later. The moon landing, Kent State, MLK’s civil rights movement etc. Too think of those events as the “past” just seems strange. For me its not that long ago.
51 (1963)
in 1912, President Taft was in office and lost the election to Wilson, the Titanic set sail for the bottom of the ocean, USA got 48 states, Fenway Park opens, Girl Scouts founded, first parachute jump from an aeroplane.
Was born in '73, so in 1932, on my birthday, the very first Purple Heart was awarded.
Three days later, Hitler would become a naturalized citizen of Germany…
If someone’s already done 58, I missed it. Born in 1956, 58 years before that is 1898, which started on a Saturday, apparently. Not a bad choice.
January saw New York City divided into the five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.
February saw the first automobile fatality, in England.
In March, someone purchased the first US made automobile.
Then there were wars and assassinations and things.
Now, let’s see how that Julian thing works. My date is 2435479. Now is 2456917. That’s a difference of 21438. That many days before my date is 2414041 or April 6, 1897. Maybe my math is off. Too early to work at fixing.
According to wiki, on that day Jesús T. Piñero, the first and only native Puerto Rican to be appointed governor of Puerto Rico, was born.
I’m 66 likewise, but born in 1948 (August). That gives me 1882 as against OttoDaFe’s 1881. For 66-years-pre-me, can thus muster up: the short Anglo-Egyptian War, which resulted in Egypt’s becoming a British protectorate; and the first commercial electric power plant entering service – it lit one square mile of lower Manhattan.
In so-called “real life” (as distinct from the Holmesverse, as above) the early 1880s seem to have been a bit unexciting, compared to many periods of the nineteenth century.
I was born in 1945. 68 years before my birth, in 1877:
Edison announced his invention of the phonograph.
Lots of Native-American-related events.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877.