year 1978: 1st test-tube baby in birth year Laserdisc video recordings in 1978: birth year Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman 1979: Prime Minister in UK at age 1 Three Mile Island nuclear event 1979: at age 1 Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 1980: 2 1st female supreme court 1981: justice at age 3 1st space shuttle flight - 1981: Columbia at age 3 1981: IBM PC ships at age 3 Ronald Reagan president of US 1981-1988: from age 3 to age 10 1st genetically engineered 1982: product - insulin at age 4 Bluford 1st black in space at 1983: age 5 1983: Compact Disks at age 5 Pioneer 10 leaves the solar 1983: system at age 5 HIV determined to be cause of 1984: AIDs at age 6 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 6 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 7 Chernobyl power plant melts 1986: down at age 8 Shuttle Challenger explodes at 1986: age 8 1986: Halleys Comet at age 8 Mir space station deployed at 1986: age 8 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSRs Cosmos at age 9 Turin shroud precisely carbon 1988: dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 10 Breakup of the Soviet Union at 1989: age 11 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 11 Powell is 1st black chairmain 1989: joint US chiefs of staff at age 11 US Invades Panama, topples 1989: Noriega at age 11 Pons and Fleischmann claim 1989: cold fusion at age 11 George Bush president of US 1989-1992: from age 11 to age 14 Hubble space telescope 1990: deployed at age 12 1990: World Wide Web at age 12 Iraq attacks Kuwait, US 1991: Attacks Iraq at age 13 8th Cholera pandemic from age 1991-2003: 13 to age 25 Blacks riot in South Central 1992: neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 14 Catholic Church apologizes for 1993: its treatment of Galileo in the 1600s at age 15 Muslim terrorists bomb World 1993: Trade Center at age 15 William Clinton president of 1993-2000: US from age 15 to age 22 South Africa moves to 1 person, 1994: 1 vote system at age 16 American Terrorist bombing in 1995: Oklahoma City at age 17 1996: DVD video recordings at age 18 1997: Cloning living beings at age 19 1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 19 Pres. Clinton Impeached 1998: December 19th. at age 20 1998: US attacks Iraq, again at age 20 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships 1998: - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 20 1999: US attacks Bosnia at age 21 Playstation II ships - most 2000: powerful video system to date at age 22 Working draft of human 2000: genome completed at age 22 2nd Coming Prophesied 2nd 2000: time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 22 North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of 2000: open water in August at age 22 Probe NEAR-Shoemaker 2001: makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 23 Satellite Radio broadcasts to 2001: consumers begin at age 23 2001: Wikipedia goes online at age 23 X-Box console released at age 2001: 23 Netherlands first country to 2001: legalize same-sex marriage at age 23 Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 2001: 20,000+ deaths at age 23 Muslim terrorists destroy 2001: World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 23 US attacks Afghanistan, 2001: October 7th at age 23 George W. Bush president of 2001-2009: US from age 23 to age 31 Euro currency introduced at 2002: age 24 Terrorist bomb kills 170, 2002: injures 250 in Bali at age 24 10th solar planet(oid) 2002: discovered: Quaoar at age 24 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at 2003: age 25 Shuttle Columbia destroyed 2003: during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 25 Non-government Spaceship 2004: One achieves spaceflight at age 26 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, 2004: injure 1240 in Spain at age 26 Indian Ocean 2004: earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 26 Huge trans-Neptunian object, 2004: Sedna, discovered at age 26 Water verified present on Mars 2004: by Odyssey lander at age 26 Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 2005: 27 NASAs Deep Impact spacecraft 2005: craters comet Temple 1 at age 27 Space Shuttle returns to flight 2005: July 26th-Aug 10th at age 27 Hurricanes Katrina, Rita 2005: devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 27 Muslim terrorists bomb 2005: London transit system July 7th at age 27 Huge trans-Plutonian object 2005: discovered at age 27 2006: PS3 ships from Sony at age 28 2006: Twitter launched at age 28 Wii ships from Nintendo at age 2006: 28 Americans lose habeas corpus 2006: at age 28 Israel attacks Lebanon at age 2006: 28 2007: Amazon launches the Kindle reader at age 29 Comet McNaught swings by the 2007: sun - extremely bright at age 29 Tesla begins delivering electric 2008: vehicles to the public at age 30 Global Recession from age 30 to 2008-2010: age 32 Comet Lulin, a green comet, 2009: swings past earth at age 31 Population of Africa reaches 2009: one billion at age 31 Barack Obama president of 2009-2016: USA from age 31 to age 38 US healthcare act (ACA) 2010: becomes law at age 32 Haiti earthquake - 220k dead, 2010: 300k injured at age 32 Space shuttle fleet retired at age 2011: 33 Deepwater Horizon drilling 2011: platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico at age 33 Japan 9.1 earthquake and 2011: Tsunami - 10K dead at age 33 Craig Venter creates first 2011: artificial lifeform: Mycoplasma laboratorium at age 33 Macular degeneration curable 2011: at age 33 Mayan calendar cycle ends at 2012: age 34 Voyager I crosses the 2012: heliopause at age 34 First nation to legalize cannabis 2013: -- Uraguay at age 35 Meteor explodes over 2013: Chelyabinsk at age 35 2013: PS4 launched at age 35 2013: XBox One launched at age 35 Embryonic stems cells created 2013: via cloning at age 35 Amazon launches the Echo 2014: voice-command server at age 36 Gay marriage in England, 2014: Wales at age 36 Laser weapons deployed on 2014: naval platforms at age 36 NATO ends combat ops in 2014: Afghanistan at age 36 Cuba and USA reestablish 2015: diplomatic relations at age 37 Dawn probe reaches Ceres at 2015: age 37 New Horizons probe reaches 2015: Pluto at age 37 Hajj pilgrimage stampede in 2015: Mecca kills 2200+, injures 900+, 600+ missing at age 37 Ireland legalizes same-sex 2015: marriage at age 37 Hurricane Patricia record 2015: winds 200 MPH+, 879mb pressure at age 37 liquid water found on Mars at 2015: age 37 North Korea tests nuclear 2016: weapon at age 38 Chinese 500m radio telescope 2016: begins ops at age 38 Machine learning system beats 2017: human Go champion at age 39 Donald Trump president of the 2017-2020: US from age 39 until after timeline