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In your 100 years you’ve been around for…

  • 20 Prime Ministers
  • 5 monarchs
  • the first Moon landing
  • 23 World Cups
  • +6.2 billion people on Earth

1926

The world you arrived into

1926

The General Strike

In May 1926, around 1.7 million British workers struck in support of coal miners. It lasted nine days.

1926

Winnie-the-Pooh was published

A.A. Milne’s bear of very little brain made his first appearance in print in October 1926.

1926

Harry Houdini died

The world’s most famous escapologist died in Detroit on 31 October 1926, aged 52.

1926

Technology looked very different

  1. The first public demonstration of television

    In a London room in January 1926, John Logie Baird showed moving images to the public for the first time.

1926

People who share your birth year

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The future Queen Elizabeth II was born

Princess Elizabeth arrived on 21 April 1926, third in line to a throne nobody expected her to inherit.

When these arrived

You were only…

  • 43 The Moon landing 1969
  • 45 The first email 1971
  • 53 The Sony Walkman 1979
  • 63 The World Wide Web was invented 1989
  • 68 The PlayStation 1994
  • 72 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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1926 vs today

A few things have changed since you arrived

A few things 1926 Today
  • Everyone on Earth about 2.0 billion about 8.2 billion

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