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In your 114 years you’ve been around for…

  • 24 Prime Ministers
  • 5 monarchs
  • the first Moon landing
  • 23 World Cups
  • +6.4 billion people on Earth

1912

The world you arrived into

1912

The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage

On 15 April 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic. More than 1,500 people were lost.

1912

Scott reached the South Pole

Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition arrived at the Pole in January 1912, only to find Roald Amundsen had beaten them by weeks.

1912

The Oreo biscuit went on sale

One of the twentieth century’s most enduring snacks made its first appearance in New York.

1912

People who share your birth year

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Alan Turing was born

The mathematician who would later crack codes at Bletchley Park and imagine modern computing arrived on 23 June 1912.

When these arrived

You were only…

  • 57 The Moon landing 1969
  • 59 The first email 1971
  • 67 The Sony Walkman 1979
  • 77 The World Wide Web was invented 1989
  • 82 The PlayStation 1994
  • 86 Google was founded 1998

A gentle reality check

Things that are younger than you

  • 1928 Penicillin discovered
  • 1928 Sliced bread went on sale
  • 1935 Radar demonstrated
  • 1936 The BBC Television Service launched
  • 1945 The United Nations was founded
  • 1946 The first general-purpose electronic computer
  • 1948 The NHS was founded
  • 1953 The structure of DNA was discovered
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1912 vs today

A few things have changed since you arrived

A few things 1912 Today
  • Everyone on Earth about 1.8 billion about 8.2 billion

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