OK, that website can just fuck right off. Getting old, my ass.
Pretty much, right?
You are 15,769 days old.
October 24th, 1929: Wall Street crash begins.
Nearer to your birth date than today!
29th Nov 1972 - Atari releases the arcade video game Pong (you were 4 months old)
*And I've been a gamer since the Atari 2600.
11th Dec 1972 - Apollo 17 lands on the moon (you were 5 months old)
5th Jan 1973 - Aerosmith release their first album (you were 6 months old)
3rd Apr 1973 - The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola (you were 9 months old)
6th Apr 1974 - ABBA wins Eurovision with the song "Waterloo" (you were 1 year old)
30th Apr 1975 - The Vietnam War ends with the fall of Saigon (you were 2 years old)
1st Jun 1978 - Grease, an American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser is released (you were 5 years old)
*I remember this because I saw it in the theater. Two of my cousins that used to babysit me, who were in high school, took me with them when they saw it.
I also remember when & where I was when I heard that Elvis was dead in August, 1977. I was five. My mom had stopped to fill up and I started pumping gas while she went in and paid. She left the radio on and I heard that Elvis had died. When Mom got back to the car, I told her what the radio said and she started crying. In high school I became a big fan of Elvis.
28th Jan 1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (you were 13 years old)
*I was in eighth grade and we watched the launch live in the junior high library. The school let us watch the launch because there was a teacher on board the shuttle - Christa McAuliffe.
28th Sep 1987 - The second Star Trek TV series The Next Generation premieres in syndication (you were 15 years old)
*Saw the premiere and watched it throughout its run. It made me a Trek fan and got me interested in the original series as well.
4th Sep 1995 - eBay is founded (you were 23 years old)
31st Aug 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (you were 25 years old)
*I remember this because I was getting laid in Grapevine, TX that night and didn't know it happened until the next morning. As a kid, I had stayed up with my Mom to watch Charles & Diana get married.
1st Jan 2001 - The dawn of the new millennium (you were 28 years old)
1st Feb 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during re-entry (you were 30 years old)
*I remember this because the shuttle disintegrated over Texas. I was in the shower that morning and heard the boom, as did much of the state and some of the southeast.
6th May 2004 - The last episode of the TV show Friends airs (you were 31 years old)
*And I hadn't watched it since the late 90's.
29th Aug 2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing severe damage (you were 33 years old)
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