1966, By Your Age
8 months. Around when you were learning to crawl, this science fiction series depicting the exploits of the starship Enterprise released its very first episode.
What is Star Trek?
In classical Indian carnatic music, this sequence of notes forms the analog of the Western solfège sequence "do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do."
What is "sa, re, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni, sa"?
This long unfinished series of fantasy novels spawned an HBO adaptation, whose conclusion penned by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss is widely considered underwhelming.
What is "A Song of Ice and Fire"?
A Dahlia Via Mask
Who is Madhavi Kailasa?
Despite the fact that you are frequently tempted to perform this action, it is actually illegal to do so while operating a motor vehicle; that you haven't yet been arrested for it is a minor miracle.
What is "using a cellphone"?
15 days. Shortly after your birth (and arguably as a direct consequence of it) this politician was successfully elected as the Prime Minister of India.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
This singer implored the listener to "admit that the waters around you have grown", lest they "sink like a stone, for the times, they are a-changing."
Who is Bob Dylan?
In this first of a Series of Unfortunate Events, the villainous Count Olaf attempts to marry the oldest of three orphaned children, in order to inherit their parents' vast wealth.
What is "The Bad Beginning"?
Alas Aura Akin
Who is Aruna Kailasa?
This contact team sport, the third most popular in India, comes in two major forms: a traditional "circle style", played outside on a circular field, and a more modern "rectangular style", played indoors on a rectangular field.
What is kabbadi?
-2 days. Two days before you were born, this Cuban premier announced his nation's reciprocal trade agreement with China, involving the exchange of Chinese rice and Cuban sugar, had been terminated by the Chinese.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The melody for this commonplace tune comes from the song "Good Morning To All", traditionally attributed to American sisters Patty and Mildred Hill in 1893 (although this claim is disputed).
What is "Happy Birthday To You"?
This historian's famous 1980 book (updated in 2003) eschews nationalist rhetoric and presents American history as a sequence of exploitations of the majority by a disproportionately powerful wealthy elite.
Who is Howard Zinn?
Asian Ajar Lanka
Who is Rajanna Kailasa?
This amusement park, located in Loxahatchee, Florida, claims to be the first "cageless zoo" in the United States; opening windows is strongly discouraged.
What is Lion Country Safari?
7 months. In August 1966, John Lennon apologized for this famous remark, noting that he "didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
What is "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus"?
This song, named for the technology possessed by the listener, will enable singer Tracy Chapman to capitalize on her "ticket to anywhere."
What is "Fast Car"?
This computer scientist, most famous for writing the first book on the C programming language along with Dennis Ritchie, affirmed that the design of the C itself was "entirely Dennis Ritchie's work."
Who is Brian Kernighan?
Anaconda Hairs, Oh!
Who is Sadhana Anchoori?
On the television series Monk, this character, portrayed by Ted Levine, serves as the captain of San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Division, and is probably Monk's best friend.
Who is Leland Stottlemeyer?
0 days. Following a military coup on January 1st, on your birthday Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa declared himself president of this landlocked African nation; eleven months later, he upgraded the title to emperor.
What is the Central African Republic?
This "divine talent", considered one of the greatest playback singers in Telugu cinema, received the Padma Shri in 1970.
Who is Ghantasala?
This cryptic medieval manuscript of unknown authorship, named after the Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912, has never been demonstrably deciphered; some think it was written by aliens.
What is the Voynich manuscript?
A Chairing Rhino Spook
Who is Gopikrishna Anchoori?
You share a birthday with this famous ornithologist, the expert who published Birds of the West Indies in 1936, and the namesake of Ian Fleming's fictional British spy.
Who is James Bond?