You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without It's A Wonderful Life.
In December 2016, Bourree Lam and Gillian B. White discussed the film's still-relevant financial themes, seventy years after it was first released.
Around the time you were born, the Allied forces signed peace treaties in Paris, France.
In August 1989, Paul Fussell wrote about the need to challenge the conventional narrative of war by focusing on the authentic stories told by troops fighting in World War II.
You were born in January of 1947. This year, The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you.
The year you were born, David L. Cohn wrote about changing American attitudes toward marriage and monogamy, as the national divorce rate climbed.
Around your 18th birthday, hundreds of people, including Martin Luther King Jr., were arrested at a march in Selma, Alabama.
In March 2015, Benjamin Hedin wrote about the rise of Black Power after Selma.
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At 22 years old, you were alive to behold people walking on the moon.
Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
Your life can be divided into two halves: before and after CD players.
In October 2012, Megan Garber wrote about the CD player turning 30 years old.
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When you turned 60, you watched humankind reach the outer solar system.
With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton, who was born the same year as you, became the first female major-party presidential candidate in American history.
In November 2006, Joshua Green wrote about the life and career of Clinton, before her bids for the presidency.
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