| 1933-1945 |
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Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from before birth until age 4 |
| 1936-1952 |
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Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from before birth until age 11 |
| 1937-1945 |
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Chinese-Japanese war (3) from before birth until age 4
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| 1939-1945 |
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World War II from before birth until age 4
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| 1941-2013 |
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Born in Newport, RI on May 3rd. |
| 1941-1945 |
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Manhattan Project - age 0 to 4 |
| 1942 |
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Nuclear Reactor - age 1 |
| 1942 |
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Magnetic Recording Tape - age 1 |
| 1943 |
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Brother Michael born - July 7th - age 2 |
| 1944 |
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Sister Nancy born - July 27th - age 3 |
| 1944 |
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US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - age 4 |
| 1945-1952 |
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Harry S Truman president of US - age 4 to 11 |
| 1945 |
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United Nations formed - age 4 |
| 1946 |
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The Bikini - age 5 |
| 1946-1989 |
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The Cold War - age 5 to 48 |
| 1947 |
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India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India - age 6 |
| 1947 |
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UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections - age 6 |
| 1947 |
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Transistor - age 6 |
| 1948 |
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33 1/3 rpm musical recordings - age 7 |
| 1948 |
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Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated - age 7 |
| 1948 |
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NATO formed - age 7 |
| 1948 |
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Israel inaugurated as state - age 7 |
| 1949 |
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45 rpm musical recordings - age 8 |
| 1949 |
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Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb - age 8 |
| 1949 |
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Apartheid policy in South Africa - age 8 |
| 1950 |
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World pop. est. at 2.4 billion - age 9 |
| 1950-1954 |
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McCarthyism - age 9 to 13 |
| 1950 |
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Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize - age 9 |
| 1950-1953 |
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Korean War - age 9 to 12
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| 1951 |
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Electricity from Atomic Power - age 10 |
| 1952 |
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1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated - age 11 |
| 1952-2050 |
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) - age 11 until after timeline |
| 1953 |
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Brother Steve born April 23rd - age 12 |
| 1953-1960 |
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Dwight D Eisenhower president of US - age 12 to 19 |
| 1954 |
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Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional - age 13 |
| 1955-1959 |
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De La Salle - age 14 to 18 |
| 1955 |
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Fiber Optics (by Kapany) - age 14 |
| 1955 |
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Invention of Velcro - age 14 |
| 1955 |
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Warsaw pact formed - age 14 |
| 1955 |
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Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine - age 14 |
| 1956 |
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Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks - age 15 |
| 1957 |
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Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite - age 16 |
| 1958 |
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Integrated Circuit - age 17
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| 1958 |
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Stereo LP recordings come into usage - age 17 |
| 1958 |
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US space agency (NASA) established - age 17 |
| 1958 |
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FM Stereo Broadcasts - age 17 |
| 1959-1964 |
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Providence College - age 18 to 23 |
| 1959 |
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Hawaii enters the union - 50th - age 18 |
| 1959 |
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Alaska enters the union - 49th - age 18 |
| 1959 |
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1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah - age 18 |
| 1960 |
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World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton - age 19 |
| 1960 |
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Pantyhose - age 19 |
| 1960 |
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1st weather satellite (Tiros I) - age 19 |
| 1960 |
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Laser - age 19 |
| 1961-1970 |
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7th Cholera pandemic - age 20 to 29 |
| 1961 |
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First human in space - Yuri Gagarin - age 20 |
| 1961-1963 |
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John F Kennedy president of US - age 20 to 22 |
| 1961 |
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1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard - age 20 |
| 1962 |
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Cuban missile crisis - age 21 |
| 1962-1965 |
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Vatican II - age 21 to 24 |
| 1963-1980 |
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Married to Lorraine - age 22 to 39 |
| 1963-1968 |
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Lyndon B Johnson president of US - age 22 to 27 |
| 1963 |
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Pres. Kennedy Assassinated - age 22 |
| 1963 |
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Compact Cassette Recordings - age 22 |
| 1963 |
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1st artificial heart - age 22 |
| 1964 |
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Michele born March 29th - age 22 |
| 1965 |
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IBM Announces 360 Computer
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| 1964 |
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Graduated from Providence College - age 23 |
| 1964 |
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US civil rights bill - age 23 |
| 1965-1968 |
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Moved to Winter Street, Woonsocket - age 24 |
| 1965 |
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Christine born June 26th - age 24 |
| 1965-1966 |
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Boston College School of Social Work - age 24 |
| 1965 |
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Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles - age 24 |
| 1965 |
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1st spacewalks (US, USSR) - age 24 |
| 1966-1969 |
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Newport Pell Bridge constructed at a cost of $54,742,000 - age 25 |
| 1966-1967 |
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Providence College - Computer courses - age 25 |
| 1966 |
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8-track tape players - age 25 |
| 1966 |
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1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) - age 25 |
| 1967 - 2000 |
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Computer Career - age 26 to 59 |
| 1967-1970 |
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Nigerian civil war - age 26 to 29
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| 1967 |
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Marshall 1st black supreme court justice - age 26 |
| 1967 |
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Six day war: Israel-Arabs - age 26
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| 1967 |
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Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole - age 26 |
| 1967 |
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1st human heart transplant - age 26 |
| 1968 |
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Robert Kennedy assassinated - age 27 |
| 1968 |
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Martin Luther King assassinated - age 27 |
| 1968-1980 |
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Moved to Highland Street, Woonsocket - age 27 to 38 |
| 1969-1977 |
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Bryant College - age 28 to 36 |
| 1969 |
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Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin - age 28 |
| 1969-1974 |
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Richard M. Nixon president of US - age 28 to 33 |
| 1969 |
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Woodstock Music Festival - age 28 |
| 1970 |
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Microprocessor - age 29 |
| 1970 |
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Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State - age 29
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| 1971 |
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Pakistani civil war - age 30
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| 1971 |
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Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 - age 30 |
| 1973 |
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October war (Israel-Arabic nations) - age 32
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| 1973 |
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The Internet - age 32 |
| 1974-1976 |
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Gerald Ford president of US - age 33 to 35 |
| 1974 |
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Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace - age 33 |
| 1975 |
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The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a - age 34 |
| 1975 |
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Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal - age 34 |
| 1975 |
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Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September - age 34 |
| 1976 |
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American Bicentennial - age 35 |
| 1976 |
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Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa - age 35 |
| 1976 |
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VHS Video Recordings - age 35 |
| 1976 |
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Television begins satellite delivery - age 35 |
| 1977 |
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Neutron bomb - age 36 |
| 1977-1980 |
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James Carter Jr president of US - age 36 to 39 |
| 1978 |
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Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die - age 37 |
| 1978 |
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1st test-tube baby - age 37 |
| 1978 |
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Laserdisc video recordings - age 37 |
| 1978 |
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Purchased Stacy House in Newport - age 37 |
| 1979 |
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Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK - age 38 |
| 1979 |
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Three Mile Island nuclear event - age 38 |
| 1980 |
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Quit Drinking - age 38 |
| 1980 |
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Mount St. Helens Erupts - age 39
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| 1981 |
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IBM PC ships - age 40 |
| 1981-1988 |
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Ronald Reagan president of US - age 40 to 47 |
| 1981 |
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1st female supreme court justice - age 40 |
| 1981 |
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1st space shuttle flight - Columbia - age 40
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| 1982 |
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Stacy House fire - March 14th |
| 1982-1986 |
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Michele attends Boston College |
| 1982 |
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1st genetically engineered product - insulin - age 41 |
| 1983 |
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Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system - age 42 |
| 1983 |
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Bluford 1st black in space - age 42 |
| 1983 |
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Compact Disks - age 42 |
| 1984 |
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Dad dies [at age 81] my age 43 |
| 1984-1988 |
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Married to Louise - age 43 to 47 |
| 1984 |
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HIV determined to be cause of AIDs - age 43 |
| 1984 |
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Apple Macintosh Ships - age 43 |
| 1985 |
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Amiga Computer Ships - age 44
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| 1986 |
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Michele graduates from Boston College - age 45 |
| 1986 |
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Chernobyl power plant melts down - age 45
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| 1986 |
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Halley's Comet - age 45 |
| 1986 |
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Shuttle Challenger explodes - age 45
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| 1986 |
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Mir space station deployed - age 45 |
| 1987 |
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2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos - age 46 |
| 1988 |
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Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax - age 47
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| 1989 |
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Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion - age 48
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| 1989 |
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US Invades Panama, topples Noriega - age 48 |
| 1989 |
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Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff - age 48 |
| 1989 |
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Fall of Berlin Wall - age 48 |
| 1989-1992 |
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George Bush president of US - age 48 to 51 |
| 1989 |
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Breakup of the Soviet Union - age 48 |
| 1990 |
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World Wide Web - age 49 |
| 1990 |
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Hubble space telescope deployed - age 49 |
| 1991-1998 |
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Moved to San Francisco - age 50 to 57 |
| 1991 |
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Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq - age 50
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| 1991-2003 |
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8th Cholera pandemic - age 50 to 62 |
| 1992 |
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Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles - age 51 |
| 1993 |
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Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's - age 52
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| 1993-2000 |
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William Clinton president of US - age 52 to 59 |
| 1993 |
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Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center - age 52 |
| 1994 |
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South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system - age 53 |
| 1995 |
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American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City - age 54 |
| 1996 |
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DVD video recordings - age 55 |
| 1997 |
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Michele moves to London in January |
| 1997 |
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Cloning living beings - age 56 |
| 1997 |
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Mars pathfinder lands - age 56 |
| 1998-2000 |
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Moved to Charlotte - age 57 to 59 |
| 1998 |
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US attacks Iraq, again - age 57 |
| 1998 |
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Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. - age 57
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| 1998 |
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1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU - age 57 |
| 1999 |
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Michele married August 20, 1999 to Peter Alexander Webb |
| 1999 |
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US attacks Bosnia - age 58 |
| 2000 |
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Moved back to Newport in August - age 59 |
| 2000 |
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Working draft of human genome completed - age 59 |
| 2000 |
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Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date - age 59 |
| 2000 |
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North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August - age 59 |
| 2000 |
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'2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled - age 59
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| 2001 |
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Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th - age 60 |
| 2001 |
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Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid - age 60 |
| 2001 |
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US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th - age 60 |
| 2001 |
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Wikipedia goes online - age 60 |
| 2001 |
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Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin - age 60 |
| 2001 |
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X-Box console released - age 60 |
| 2001-2009 |
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George W. Bush president of US - age 60 to 68 |
| 2001 |
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Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths - age 60 |
| 2002 |
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Euro currency introduced - age 61 |
| 2002 |
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Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali - age 61 |
| 2002 |
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10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar - age 61
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| 2003-2008 |
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City of Newport Planning Board - age 62 to 67 |
| 2003-2008 |
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Aquidneck Island Planning Commission - age 63! |
| 2003 |
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Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) - age 62 |
| 2003 |
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28,000 die in Iran earthquake - age 62 |
| 2004 |
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First Grandson - Alexander Webb born - Sept 8 - age 63 |
| 2004 |
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Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight - age 63 |
| 2004 |
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Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander - age 63 |
| 2004 |
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Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered - age 63 |
| 2004 |
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Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - dec 26 - age 63 |
| 2004 |
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10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain - age 63 |
| 2005 |
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Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th Aug 10th - age 64 |
| 2005 |
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Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th - age 64 |
| 2005 |
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Microsoft ships Xbox 360 - age 64 |
| 2005 |
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Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered - age 64 |
| 2005 |
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Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep - age 64 |
| 2005 |
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 - age 64 |
| 2005-2006 |
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AIPC Chairman - age 63 |
| 2005-2006 |
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AIPC West Side Task Force - age 63 |
| 2005-2007 |
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Newport North End Master Plan Study - age 63 |
| 2005 |
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First learned of Irish Uncle John Cleary - age 64 |
| 2006 |
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Mother passes on June 25, 2006 - age 65 |
| 2006 |
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Nicholas James Webb born July 30th |
| 2006 |
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PS3 ships from Sony - age 65 |
| 2006 |
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Americans lose habeas corpus - age 65 |
| 2006 |
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Israel attacks Lebanon - age 65 |
| 2006 |
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Wii ships from Nintendo - age 65 |
| 2007 |
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Newport Hospital on May 17th - age 66 |
| 2007 |
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Rep. Paul Crowley, died September 24, 2007 - age 66 |
| 2007 |
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Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright - age 66 |
| 2008 |
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Elected to House of Representatives - age 67
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| 2009-2010 |
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First term - age 67 to 69 |
| 2009-2010 |
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Global Recession - age 67 to 69 |
| 2009-2012 |
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Obama president of USA - age 68 until after timeline |
| 2009 |
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Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth - age 68 |
| 2010-2013 |
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Appointed to Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission - age 69 to 71
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| 2010 |
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Elected to second term in House of Representatives - age 69
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| 2011-2012 |
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Second term - age 69 to 71 |
| 2011 |
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Obtained Pardon for John Gordon - June 29, 2011 - age 70 |
| 2012 |
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Elected to third term in House of Representatives - age 71 |
| 2013 - 2014 |
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Third term - age 72 to 74 |
| 2013 |
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Learned of Cleary Family Relatives in Ireland - age 71 |