Thanks to Mac, I now feel ancient. She linked the Age Gauge, a website that calculates your age according to historic events and the relative ages of celebrities.
Here’s the sad truth about my age compared to a few famous people:
younger than Mike Tyson, age 37
2 years 6 months older than Jennifer Aniston, age 35
3 years 11 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
6 years 4 months older than Alyssa Milano, age 31
9 years 5 months older than Tiger Woods, age 28
15 years 10 months older than Prince William, age 21
And my place in history:
33 years old on the first day of Y2K
31 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
28 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
27 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
26 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
24 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
23 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
19 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
17 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
16 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space
14 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
13 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
9 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
7 years old when President Nixon left office
5 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
2 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
a 1 year old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
TV history:
4 years old when All in the Family was first shown
6 years old at the time the TV series M*A*S*H began
9 years old when Saturday Night Live first aired
11 years old when CBS introduced Dallas
14 years old during the first airing of Hill Street Blues
16 years old at the time the first Cheers episode was televised
