| As an infant | |
| 12 Aug 1977 | First free flight and landing test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise (I was 2 months old) |
| 15 Aug 1977 | The Big Ear, a radio telescope receives a radio signal from deep space (I was 2 months old) |
| 16 Aug 1977 | Elvis Presley dies in his home in Graceland at age 42 (I was 2 months old) |
| 3 Sep 1977 | The Commodore PET computer is first sold (I was 2 months old) |
| 14 Dec 1977 | Saturday Night Fever, an American dance film directed by John Badham is released (I was 6 months old) |
| As a child | |
| 31 Dec 1978 | Space Invaders, an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado is released in North America (I was 1 year old) |
| 19 Jul 1980 | The 1980 Summer Olympics open in Moscow, Soviet Union (I was 3 years old) |
| 12 Aug 1981 | The IBM Personal Computer is released (I was 4 years old) |
| 6 Jun 1984 | The Tetris video game is released in the USSR (I was 6 years old) |
| 28 Jul 1984 | The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California (I was 7 years old) |
| As a teenager | |
| 23 Jun 1991 | The first Sonic the Hedgehog game is published by Sega (I was 14 years old) |
| 25 Dec 1991 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Russian SFSR officially renames itself to the Russian Federation (I was 14 years old) |
| 10 May 1994 | Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president (I was 16 years old) |
| 1 Mar 1995 | The first search engine service Yahoo! is founded (I was 17 years old) |
| 22 Jun 1995 | Quake, a first-person shooter video game is released (I was 18 years old) |
| In my 20s | |
| 31 Aug 1997 | Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash (I was 20 years old) |
| 7 Feb 1998 | The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan (I was 20 years old) |
| 1 Jun 1999 | Napster, a revolutionary music downloading service, debuts (I was 21 years old) |
| 1 Jan 2001 | The dawn of the new millennium (I was 23 years old) |
| 11 Sep 2001 | 9/11 terror attacks on NYC's World Trade Center and Pentagon (I was 24 years old) |
| In my 30s | |
| 12 Feb 2010 | The 2010 Winter Olympics open in Canada (I was 32 years old) |
| 14 Apr 2010 | Ash from Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland disrupts air traffic over Europe (I was 32 years old) |
| 2 May 2011 | Osama bin Laden killed by US military forces in Pakistan (I was 33 years old) |
| 8 Jul 2011 | The last Space Shuttle launch, Atlantis on flight STS-135 (I was 34 years old) |
| 28 Feb 2013 | Benedict XVI resigns as pope (I was 35 years old) |
