Time is flying by, and that's especially the case the older you get. Sometimes, it's easy to forget how major milestones and historical moments overlap with one another.
Below is a round-up of 32 historically significant moments that you may or may not have been aware occurred around the same time.
1.The Titanic sunk in the same year that Fenway Park opened.
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The Titanic tragedy occurred five days before the opening of Fenway Park in Chicago on April 20, 1912. The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, per USA Today.
2.Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994. That same year also marks O.J. Simpson's infamous car chase in the white Bronco.
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On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated into office, a historical moment that marked the first Black president in the history of South Africa, per Al Jazeera. A month later, in the US, O.J. Simpson went on a low-speed police chase through Southern California that made headlines across the world following the murder of his wife.
3.In 1997, the world mourned the death of Princess Diana, who passed away in a car accident on August 31 in Pont de l'Alma, France. Just two months before, J.K. Rowling changed the landscape of children's literature by releasing Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone in the U.K., per Time Magazine.
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4.John F. Kennedy was assassinated just months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
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John F. Kennedy was murdered at 43 years old in a motorcade driving through Dealey Plaza in Texas on November 22, 1963. On August 28, Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech in front of 250,000 people.
5.1980 marked the murder of John Lennon and the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980, after he was shot in front of his apartment building in New York City, per People. Earlier that year, the most disastrous volcanic eruption in American history took place on May 18 that left 57 people dead, according to USA Today.
6.Hitler's rise to power in 1933 coincided with the end of Prohibition in the US.
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Though he didn't become a dictator until 1934, Paul von Hindenburg appointed HItler as counselor in January 1933, which ultimately became the pretext to his dictatorship, per History.com. By the end of the year, the US finally repealed Prohibition laws.
7.Just a few months after Marilyn Monroe's death, the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted.
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On August 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose. Months later, in October, the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly led the US and the Soviet Union to war.
8.McDonald's established its first franchise restaurant under Ray Kroc in 1955 — the same year Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The onset of a fast food empire, Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald's location in 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois, per their website. And while it was a massive step forward for the future of America's food industry, that year also marked Rosa Parks's courageous act of protest against segregation, as reported by History.com.
9.The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess of Hohenberg, catalyzed WWI in 1914, according to historians. However, that same year, Charlie Chaplin made history when he debuted his most famous character, The Tramp, in The Kid Auto Races At Venice.
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10.The attack on Pearl Harbor and the completion of Mount Rushmore occurred a few months apart from each other.
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The Pearl Harbor attack killed over 2,400 Americans on December 7, 1941 following a surprise attack by Japanese fighter jets. A little over a month before, Mount Rushmore was completed after nearly 14 years of work, according to NPS.
11.The year The Beatles bid farewell to their fans with a final performance was the same year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
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The final public performance of The Beatles occurred on top of the Apple Studio in London on January 30, 1969, uDiscover reports. Fast forward to July, the US made massive strides in space exploration when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
12.Disney's first full-length feature film, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs debuted in 1937, according to Britannica. A year later, the Spanish Civil War began.
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13.1950 marked the beginning of the Korean War, and Marlon Brando's film debut in The Men.
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The Imperial War Museum notes that the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, and ended on July 27, 1953. A month after the war started, Marlon Brando made his film debut in Fred Zinneman's The Men, per Turner Classic Movies.
14.The US boycotted the Olympics in 1980 in response to the Soviet-Afghan War — one of the biggest protests in Olympic history. That year also marked one of the greatest feats in video game history: the debut of Pac-Man.
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15.Considered the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman at the time, per PBS, the University of Texas tower massacre occurred on August 1, 1966. Just days later, The Beatles released their album, Revolver on August 5, according to their official website.
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16.The first IBM PC, known as IBM Model 5150, changed the technology landscape when it debuted in 1981, per Computer History. That same year also marked the infamous moment where Barbera Walters asked Katharine Hepburn the million-dollar question: "what kind of tree are you?"
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