The Older Gentleman

The older gentleman from Arkansas is what my Dad calls him. He is my mother's father, my grandfather. He is actually from Denmark, and he will be 105 years old this Friday.

Happy Birthday Thorvald Jensen!
you were:
100 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
98 years old on the first day of Y2K
96 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
94 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
93 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
92 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
89 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
88 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
85 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
82 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
82 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
80 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
78 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
75 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
73 years old when President Nixon left office
71 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
68 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
67 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
64 years old during the Watts riot
62 years old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
58 years old when Hawaii was admitted as 50th of the United States
56 years old when the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 was launched
52 years old at the end of the Korean War
44 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
40 years old at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
33 years old in the year radar was invented
28 years old when the American stock market crashed
25 years old in the year of the first talking motion picture
14 years old at the time of the sinking of the Lusitania
13 years old when the First World War began
11 years old at the time of the maiden voyage of the Titanic
5 years old during the great San Francisco earthquake