Ella E. Petersen Lee (1919–1994)

1920 · age 1 — Women won the right to vote in the United States

1935 · age 16 — The Social Security Act was signed

1944 · age 25 — Allied forces landed in Normandy on D-Day

1953 · age 34 — The Korean War armistice was signed

1959 · age 40 — Alaska and Hawaii became states

1965 · age 46 — The Voting Rights Act was signed

1976 · age 57 — The United States celebrated its Bicentennial

1991 · age 72 — The Soviet Union dissolved