Your life in history

_Elsa_

Back at Elsa’s house, she makes herself something to eat and then goes back to her laptop. What’s this all about?

‘Explore your life in history - Tell us your birthday, and we’ll show you how the world has changed during your lifetime. 

She types in her birthday and comes up with some interesting facts.

‘You're one of the first people who's never lived in a world without It's A Wonderful Life. In December 2016, Bourree Lam and Gillian B. White discussed the film's still-relevant financial themes, seventy years after it was first released.

The Atlantic celebrates its 160th birthday, making it 2 times as old as you. The year you were born, David L. Cohn wrote about changing American attitudes toward marriage and monogamy, as the national divorce rate climbed. 

Around the time you were born, King Michael I of Romania was forced at gunpoint to sign a document proclaiming his abdication and the end of the Romanian monarchy. The year you were born, David L. Cohn wrote about changing American attitudes toward marriage and monogamy, as the national divorce rate climbed. In July/August 2003, David Quammen wrote about Nicolae Ceausescu's terrible treatment of Romania under his dictatorial rule.

Around your 18th birthday, Gemini 6 launched and rendezvoused in space with Gemini 7. On December 15, 2011, Rebecca J. Rosen recounted the story of the first meeting between manned spacecraft.

At 21 years old, you were alive to behold people walking on the moon. Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.

When you turned 59, you watched humankind reach the outer solar system. With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.’ (Source)

That’s it! Elsa thinks that she has more than enough to create a surprise birthday party story. She will check in with Tiffi and PrettyBubbles in the morning to see what party plans they have come up with.

If any of you would like to find out your timeline on the day that you were born you can check it out here: Explore your life in history.

Let’s continue - Let’s make some phone calls

Start at the beginning - The surprise birthday party