Born 1961

Closer to Spanish-American War (1898) than now.

Drawkcab said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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A two year old in 2001 also lived half their life in the 90s and half in the 2000s. Not that impressive.

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Before I take into consideration your opinion on what is or isn't impressive I need to know if you believe the year 2000 began a new millennium or if it was the last year of the old millennium.

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can't you infer what he believes by reading his post and doing basic math?

Texaco was founded.
Cuba gained independence from the US.
The first Rose Bowl.

Drawkcab said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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A two year old in 2001 also lived half their life in the 90s and half in the 2000s. Not that impressive.

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Before I take into consideration your opinion on what is or isn't impressive I need to know if you believe the year 2000 began a new millennium or if it was the last year of the old millennium.

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Neither, It's neutral. Jesus keeps it open for his return. The next window is 3000 and some people who are alive today will be arable to download into a 3-D printed body to see it

62strat said:

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Drawkcab said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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A two year old in 2001 also lived half their life in the 90s and half in the 2000s. Not that impressive.

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Before I take into consideration your opinion on what is or isn't impressive I need to know if you believe the year 2000 began a new millennium or if it was the last year of the old millennium.

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can't you infer what he believes by reading his post and doing basic math?

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No, seeing as how I abruptly switched topics and what I asked is not directly relevant to what he said.

Hoosegow said:

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Not quite that old...

I was born closer to the end of the Great War than now.

A couple of others...
The Romanov family was execcuted by the Bolsheviks - which became the communist party the same year. Interestingly, the revolutionary leadership elite comprised of only 1/3 of ethnic Russian. The rest were not. Something, something about knowing histiory and being doomed to repeat it.

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What argument are you even making? The Romanovs created the Russian Empire through conquest and then repeatedly trampled on their subject peoples.

Born closer to the start of WWII.

Drawkcab said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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I've lived half of my life in the 1900s and half in the 2000s. 26 years on either side.

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Hey, that's how many I've lived in the 2000s also! This belongs in the amazing coincidence thread.

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You can't beat 1974 babies.

Drawkcab said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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A two year old in 2001 also lived half their life in the 90s and half in the 2000s. Not that impressive.

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Before I take into consideration your opinion on what is or isn't impressive I need to know if you believe the year 2000 began a new millennium or if it was the last year of the old millennium.

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Is your precision years or seconds?

Let's go with days.

I was born closer to the inauguration of Benjamin Harrison in 1889 than today.

Ditto.

The stock market crash…in 1929… by quite a bit.

Galveston hurricane
Wright bro's first flight
Ford Motor Company creation

WW2 ending
JFK assn
Apollo Moon landing
March on Washington
Super Bowl 1

The death of Pancho Villa. Wyatt Earp and Brushy Bill Roberts (aka Billy thew Kid.)all fit the bill here. That is not as long ago as you would think.

My birth date is closer to the arrival of the Statue of Liberty from France than today.

The Great Depression

I was born closer to the 19th Century than today.

I was born closer in time to these events than to today:

The construction on the Eiffel Tower began, the Interstate Commerce Act established the first federal regulation of U.S. railroads, Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in print, and Anne Sullivan began teaching Helen Keller.

The Wounded Knee Massacre...

normaleagle05 said:

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Went to my grandmother's 99th birthday party last Saturday. She was born closer to Texas independence from Mexico than now.

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Mom is still with us at 96, born in 1930. 96 years before her birth is 1834, so pre-Republic.

Dad was born in 1929, he knew Civil War veterans. I knew one veteran of the Moro Insurrection.

The end of WW1
Prohibition (the start of)
Grand Canyon becomes a national park

1916

United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa; the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.

Burdizzo said:

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The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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+1

Sapper Redux said:

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Hoosegow said:

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Not quite that old...

I was born closer to the end of the Great War than now.

A couple of others...
The Romanov family was executed by the Bolsheviks - which became the communist party the same year. Interestingly, the revolutionary leadership elite comprised of only 1/3 of ethnic Russian. The rest were not. Something, something about knowing history and being doomed to repeat it.

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What argument are you even making? The Romanovs created the Russian Empire through conquest and then repeatedly trampled on their subject peoples.

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Maybe the people that got trampled were a bunch of rebel scum, poets, and sheet house philosophers that contributed nothing to the empire.

I was born closer to La Boheme's first perfromance/the first Olympic Games than today

Which queen Vicky?

Actually read that wrong. It was when she surpassed her grandfather as longest reigning Monarch

I've often thought about a variation of this.

The class of 2027 are currently seniors. I don't feel that much older than them, though my class graduated 50 years before theirs will.

However, had I met some class of 1927 guys when I was a student, I would have thought they were backwards and ancient.

And 50 years before them, 1876-1877, was the first class to enter A&M.

So someone just a bit older than me, at 75, their birth was 75 years after the establishment of A&M, and 75 years before the sesquicentennial.

1876 A&M was a single building on the prairie.

1927 was a small school, centered around the Academic Building. The Corps Dorms would not be built for another 12 years.

1977, our freshmen year enrollment was 18,000. There was a pig farm where the Bush Library is. Kyle Field was two decks, and still had the 1927 bottom deck, with the tunnel in the north end zone.

2027....it's a different world

Has anyone said color tv?

"Dewey defeats Truman"
State of Israel established and first Arab-Israeli War

Russo-Japanese War.

Not birthday related, but I often measure time/oldness based on when certain albums or movies came out.
Ex.: Blood Sugar Sex Magik released in '91. It seemed like a loooong time between that and Californication coming out in '99. Now it's been 27 years since that album.