A curiosity...

You said your birthday is 4 / 8 / 1973

which means you are 30 years old and about:

56 years 5 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 87
52 years 11 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 83
48 years 10 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 79
41 years 6 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 72
39 years 5 months younger than Larry King, age 70
33 years 2 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 63
29 years 9 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
26 years 9 months younger than George W. Bush, age 57
21 years 9 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 52
17 years 5 months younger than Bill Gates, age 48
12 years 7 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
6 years 9 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 37
2 years 8 months younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
2 years 9 months older than Tiger Woods, age 27
9 years 2 months older than Prince William, age 21

and that you were:

28 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
26 years old on the first day of Y2K
24 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
22 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
21 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
19 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
17 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
16 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
12 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
10 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
10 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
7 years old when Pres. 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
a 1 year old when President Nixon left office

May I say WOW! Gosh, didn't knew so MUCH happenned in just 30 years!
:P

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