You said your birthday is 1 / 8 / 1962
which means you are 43 years old and about:
45 years 2 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 88
41 years 8 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 84
37 years 7 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 80
30 years 3 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 73
28 years 2 months younger than Larry King, age 71
21 years 11 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 65
18 years 6 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 61
15 years 6 months younger than George W. Bush, age 58
10 years 6 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 53
6 years 2 months younger than Bill Gates, age 49
1 year 4 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 44
4 years 6 months older than Mike Tyson, age 38
8 years 7 months older than Jennifer Lopez, age 34
14 years 0 months older than Tiger Woods, age 29
20 years 5 months older than Prince William, age 22
and that you were:
39 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
37 years old on the first day of Y2K
(I was at work at the fire department on New Years Eve. Quiet shift except the Chief made us fuel up all the trucks because the pumps wouldn't work when all the computers in the world crashed.)
35 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
33 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
32 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
31 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
29 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
(I joined the Air National Guard because I had to do something and the Marine Corps didn't want me back. I went to medic school in Texas.)
27 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
(And I was amazed)
24 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
22 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
(I wasn't interested in computers. At that time they were toys for geeks. Also the year I got out of the Marine Corps and became a fireman)
21 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
19 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
(I heard about it from a sailor as I was boarding a landing craft somewhere in Greece. I was a Marine and we were really ticked off at the news.)
17 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
(I joined the Marine Corps. I didn't leave for boot camp until I graduated from high school when I was eighteen.)
14 years old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July
12 years old when President Nixon left office
10 years old when Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot
7 years old at the time the first man stepped on the moon
(I watched it but I do not remember it)
6 years old when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
(I do not remember it. Heck I was only six.)
3 years old during the Watts riot
(No memory of this either)
a 1 year old at the time President Kennedy was assassinated
(I was poopin my diaper)
edited to add more boring information on myself. It is all about me, isn't it? 