How Old Were You When... (meme-ish)

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(looks US-centric, as y'all may have guessed)

Kinda fun, it's here.


Younger than:
Walter Cronkite
Barbara Walters
George W. Bush
Bill Gates
Yoko Ono
Bob Dylan
Mick Jagger
Eric Clapton
Madonna
Jon Bon Jovi
Mariah Carey
Alanis Morissette
Whoopi Goldberg
Robin Williams
Tom Hanks
Jamie Lee Curtis
Eddie Murphy
Jennifer Lopez

Older than:
Prince William (who?)
Britney Spears
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Haley Joel Osment (who?)

and you were:
23 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
22 years old on the first day of Y2K
19 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
17 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
16 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
15 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center (only vague memory of this. I think I may have been in Spain at the time)
13 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
12 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
8 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded

I don't remember any of these things:
6 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
5 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
3 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
2 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began

(There's also Top 40s, TV, and Movie milestones, but I tend to not be aware of these things, for the most part)