Interesting, if nothing else a walk down memory lane with people and events that have lived/gone on during my life so far.

The first part with how much younger I am than people wasn't as interesting to me so I will share the events gauge:

Birthdate 12/04/74

26 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
25 years old on the first day of Y2K
22 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
20 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
19 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
18 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
16 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
14 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
11 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
9 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
8 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
6 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. (This is the first world type event that I really remember)
4 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
a 1 year old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July


And movies

Star Wars: 2
Animal House: 3
Star Trek: The Motion Picture: 5
ET: 7
The Terminator: 9
Top Gun: 11
Planes, Trains & Automobiles: 12
Steel Magnolias: 14
Home Alone: 15
Wayne's World: 17
Jurassic Park: 18
Forrest Gump: 19
Fargo: 21
Saving Private Ryan: 23
Toy Story 2: 24

The one movie on this list that seems like it was only a year or two ago is Saving Private Ryan


TV shows:

3 years old when CBS introduced Dallas
6 years old during the first airing of Hill Street Blues
7 years old at the time the first Cheers episode was televised
11 years old when L.A. Law was first aired on TV
12 years old at the time the series Married with Children began
15 years old when Seinfeld was first televised
16 years old in the month Home Improvement began
19 years old at the time the TV series Friends began
21 years old when Everybody Loves Raymond first aired
24 years old when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire began in the US


And when these songs were topping the charts
and these events occurred your age was:

Silly Love Songs, Wings: 1
Elvis Presley Dies: 2
Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart: 4
Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd: 5
John Lennon is shot to death: 6
MTV makes its debut: 6
Who Can it be Now, Men at Work: 7
The recording of We Are The World: 10
Walk Like an Egyptian, Bangles: 12
Didn't We Almost have it all, Whitney Houston: 12
Back In The U.S.S.R. is released exclusively in Russia: 14
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor: 15
Emotions, Mariah Carey: 16
Fleetwood Mac perform at Bill Clinton's inauguration: 18
The Sign, Ace Of Base: 19
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opens: 20