2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18
1998 John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery
1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1996 Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 years 238 days
1996 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, vs. NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
1995 Chuck Greenberg, new age musician (Shadowfax), dies at 45
1994 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1991 Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86
1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1989 Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies
1989 Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak vs. NZ age 16 years 189 days
1987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age
1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados
1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
1983 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live
1982 Hasan Raza, cricketer, Test cricketer at the age of 14
1980 Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
1980 Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66
1976 Javed Miandad, 206 vs. NZ, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six)
1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1975 One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 years 364 days
1975 Atta-ur-Rehman, cricketer, Pakistani quickie, debut vs. Engl1992 age 17
1974 Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1973 M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44
1971 26th amendment certified, reduces voting age to 18
1971 Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment
1971 Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 1988 Olympics
1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1970 President Nixon signs 26th amendment, voting age lowered to 18
1970 U.S. lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs. WI age 21 years 77 days
1960 Paul Humphreys, rock synthesizer, OMD-Crush, Pacific Age
1960 John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years
1959 Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad vs. WI age 15 years 124 days
1955 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
1954 Yanni, new age musician, Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance
1954 Jack Blades, rock bassist, Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger
1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
1952 John Tesh, born in Garden City, New York, New age pianist/TV host, ET
1950 Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in New York City
1948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho
1947 Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
1946 Bob Holland, cricketer, Australian leg-spinner at age 38
1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)
1945 Tandy Cronyn, actress, Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends
1943 Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided
1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18
1941 All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1938 Vijay Mehra, cricketer, Indian Test batsman from age 17
1935 H B "Jock" Cameron, South Africa cricket capt (v England 1935, age 30), dies
1935 Phyllis Newman, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actress, Coming of Age, TW3
1935 John Gross, author, Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century
1934 Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days
1933 Washington Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57
1932 Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1928 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101
1927 David Hobman, director, Age Concern England
1923 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada
1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69
1912 Arline Judge, actress, Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent
1908 Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
1901 Margaret Mead, born in Philadelphia, anthropologist, Coming of Age in Samoa
1886 Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper
1882 Don Blackie, cricketer, Australian off-spinner in 1928-29 yes, age 46
1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track and field record pole-vaulting 11' 2" at age 17 years and 198 days
1878 Friedrich August von Alberti, geologist (Triasic Age), dies at 83
1871 Tom Hayward, cricketer, great England batsman of the Golden Age
1870 Lionel Palairet, cricketer, elegant England bat in the Golden Age
1865 Shigechiyo Izumi, achieved oldest authenticated age, 120 y 237 d
1847 Godefroid Kurth, Belg historian, La cite de Liege au moyen age
1809 Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense), dies at 72
1795 Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist, Triasic Age
1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason
1676 King Carlos II of Spain becomes of age (at 15)
1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declarer of full age
1581 James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, gave age to Earth based on bible
1380 King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
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