A really, really long time ago

What of major interest was going on in the world when you take your age now and subtract it from the year you were born?

In my case one of the events was - - Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park.

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SomeMichGuy · M

Hmmm

Max Planck did a clever interpolation to come up with his eponymous constant and derive the curve of blackbody radiation.

Wolfgang Pauli & Frederick Terman were born.

rinkydinkydoink · M

@SomeMichGuy

My dad was born the year before Planck introduced his Constant

SomeMichGuy · M

@rinkydinkydoink My dad's dad was born 4 yr before that! lol

rinkydinkydoink · M

@SomeMichGuy

Some movie greats were born during that decade - Hitchcock, Bogart, Jack Benny, Laurel & Hardy... !