Things that seem like so long ago but only happened a few years before your birth.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I find it interesting that there are certain events that seem almost ancient history to me, but in reality only happened a few years before my birth. And given that things that happened 10 years ago from now seem like they happened yesterday, it sort of puts things in a whole new persepective.

For example, the following things happened less than 20 years before my birth:

Vietnam War (4 years)
Watergate/Nixon resignation (5 years)
Moon Landing (10 years)
JFK Assassination (16 years)

Suddenly, ancient history doesn't seem so ancient to me.

Anyone else track a major event that seems long ago but isn't that much older than you?

[av8rdave]

1. Mine go back a little further

End of WW II (13 years)
Korean War (5 years)
Lincoln Assassination (93 years)

[Silver Swan]

2. I have a different feeling.

When I was young, I remember my older sister going to a "roaring twenties" party. This was in the mid 1950's, so the twenties were thirty years earlier, twenty years before I was born.

Now people have "seventies" parties, and while I know that the 1970's were thirty years ago, and more, the 1920's don't seem any longer ago than when I was young.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. I remember my parents going to 50s parties when I was growing up.

And now kids are bent on 1980s nostaligia. Which begs the unrelated question, why?

[skygazer]

3. Things that happened a few years before my birth ARE long ago

I'm old, man. :P