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Article: Where were you on that day? Probably not born yet
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2009
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WASHINGTON - Most Americans have never known a world where man
hasn't been to the moon.
It used to be a given that people knew where they were when man
first walked on the moon on July 20, 1969, watching the black-and-
white images on television. But now most Americans don't know where
they were because the majority of Americans hadn't been born yet.
The median age of Americans, as of last year, was 36.8, meaning
more than half of U.S. residents are younger than 40, according to
the U.S. Census Bureau. No figures have been calculated for this
year yet.
Five years ago, when NASA celebrated the 35th anniversary of the
moon landing, the median age of Americans was 36.1, so most
residents were ...