A web gizmo to place yourself in history

If you’ve ever wondered where your birthday places you in the scheme of world events, these little scripts will tell you. Check out world events, music, and movies in relation to your age. Pages like this were around when I first got on line, but I doubt that these are the same links I remember from five or six years ago!


In case you’re wondering about me: I’m

  • 54 years 5 months younger than Zsa Zsa Gabor, age 83
  • 43 years 1 month younger than Clint Eastwood, age 71
  • 26 years 3 months younger than Billy Crystal, age 55
  • 23 years 7 months younger than Whoopi Goldberg, age 52
  • 20 years 11 months younger than Robin Williams, age 49
  • 17 years 0 months younger than Tom Hanks, age 45
  • 40 years 4 months younger than Yoko Ono, age 69
  • 32 years 1 month younger than Bob Dylan, age 60
  • 29 years 11 months younger than Mick Jagger, age 58
  • 28 years 3 months younger than Eric Clapton, age 56
  • 17 years 9 months younger than David Lee Roth, age 46
  • 14 years 10 months younger than Madonna, age 43
  • 11 years 4 months younger than Jon Bon Jovi, age 40
  • 11 months older than Alanis Morissette, age 27
  • 8 years 5 months older than Britney Spears, age 20

And here’s my age at the time of these:

  • Jaws: 1
  • Star Wars: 3
  • Animal House: 4
  • ET: 8
  • The Terminator: 11
  • Top Gun: 12
  • Wayne’s World: 18
  • Jurassic Park: 19
  • Forrest Gump: 21
  • Saving Private Ryan: 25
  • I Shot the Sheriff, Eric Clapton: 1
  • Silly Love Songs, Wings: 2
  • Elvis Presley Dies: 4
  • Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 6
  • John Lennon is shot to death: 7
  • MTV makes its debut: 8
  • The recording of We Are The World: 11
  • Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 13
  • Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 15
  • 21 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
  • 20 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
  • 17 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
  • 12 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
  • 7 years old when President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
  • 6 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
  • 3 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July
  • 1 year old when President Nixon left office
2024-02-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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