Monday, March 9, 2015

Living My 60th Year - how old am I?

With various FaceBook friends we do these silly tests to tell you who you are, or act like and this one is just to tell you how old you are.  On mine - they added to 'kids' together to equal my age.  Oh my goodness - I had to google who they were!  By the way google began on Sept 4, 1998 and I was 42 years of age  ..........  so as of today........
I am 21,605 days old
My star sign is Capricorn. My birth stone is Garnet.
The total number of candles on all my birthday cakes so far is 1,770.
My heart has beaten approximately 2,160,578,xxx beats in total.
My have taken approximately 470,166,xxx breaths in total.
The moon has orbited the earth 791 times since I were born.
When I was born there were approximately 2,825,478,075 other people alive on Earth.
There are now about 7,2097,467 people alive.

As an infant
2nd Mar 1956   Morocco declares independence from France (you were 1 month old)
15th Mar 1956   The musical "My Fair Lady" opens on Broadway (you were 2 months old)
5th Jun 1956   Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog" (you were 4 months old)
4th Jul 1956    The U-2 spy plane flies over the Soviet Union for the first time (you were 5 months old)
26th Oct 1956     Red Army troops invade Hungary to suppress the Hungarian Revolution (you were 9 months old)


As a child
4th Oct 1957  The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth (you were 1 year old)
14th Oct 1962  Cuban Missile Crisis begins after US spy planes spot Russian nuclear weapons in Cuba (you were 6 years old)
28th Oct 1962  Cuban Missile Crisis ends with the Soviets agreeing to removal of their missiles from Cuba (you were 6 years old)
18th Mar 1965  Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space (you were 9 years old)
9th Oct 1967   Guerrilla leader Che Guevara executed in Bolivia (you were 11 years old)


As a teenager
9th Feb 1969   The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight. (you were 13 years old)
20th Jul 1969   Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step onto the Moon (you were 13 years old)
17th Apr 1970   Apollo 13 returns safely to earth after explosion cripples craft en-route to the Moon (you were 14 years old)
4th May 1970   Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen (you were 14 years old)
3rd Jul 1971    Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead (you were 15 years old)


In your 20s
12th Aug 1977   First free flight and landing test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise (you were 21 years old)
16th Aug 1977   Elvis Presley dies in his home in Graceland at age 42 (you were 21 years old)
14th Dec 1977   Saturday Night Fever, an American dance film directed by John Badham is released (you were 21 years old)
25th Dec 1979   The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (you were 23 years old)
17th Aug 1982   The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public (you were 26 years old)


In your 30s
28th Jan 1986   The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (you were 30 years old)
7th Aug 1991   The World Wide Web is announced to the public by Tim Berners-Lee (you were 35 years old)
24th Nov 1991   Freddie Mercury dies aged 45 (you were 35 years old)
25th Dec 1991   Dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Russian SFSR officially renames itself to the Russian Federation (you were 35 years old)
7th Feb 1992   The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union (you were 36 years old)


In your 40s
1st Jul 1997   The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (you were 41 years old)
31st Aug 1997   Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (you were 41 years old)
1st Jan 2001   The dawn of the new millennium (you were 44 years old)
11th Sep 2001   9/11 terror attacks on NYC's World Trade Center and Pentagon (you were 45 years old)
7th Aug 2004   Pitcher Greg Maddux won his 300th baseball game (you were 48 years old)


In your 50s
15th Jul 2006   Twitter is launched (you were 50 years old)
11th Mar 2011   A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hits the east of Japan (you were 55 years old)
2nd May 2011   Osama bin Laden killed by US military forces in Pakistan (you were 55 years old)
21st Mar 2014   Russia formally annexes Crimea (you were 58 years old)

1st Jun 2014   The you.regettingold.com website launches (you were 58 years old)

AND IT'S NOT OVER....... IT IS JUST BEGINNING




Here's to a year of catching the dreams you chase,
doing what makes you smile,
and loving the life you live.

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