Jean Thomson Cottle (1920–2003)

1920 · age 0 — Women won the right to vote in the United States

1935 · age 15 — The Social Security Act was signed

1944 · age 24 — Allied forces landed in Normandy on D-Day

1953 · age 33 — The Korean War armistice was signed

1959 · age 39 — Alaska and Hawaii became states

1965 · age 45 — The Voting Rights Act was signed

1976 · age 56 — The United States celebrated its Bicentennial

1991 · age 71 — The Soviet Union dissolved