Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

[TsukubaTrueno]

http://www.museumofconceptualart.com/accomplished/

Pretty cool site. Enter your age and see what other people accomplished when they were your age.

At age 15:

Albert Einstein, with poor grades in geography, history and languages, dropped out of school.

Composer George Gershwin ("Rhapsody in Blue") left school to pitch his songs in Tin Pan Alley.

Chess champion Bobby Fischer became an international grandmaster and dropped out of high school to devote himself to professional competition.

Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg dropped out of school to concentrate on tennis.

American reformer Susan B. Anthony began teaching school.

Henry Ford, disliking life on the farm, moved to Detroit and trained as a machinist.

Pretty cool.

 

[CDailey]

At age 21:

English chemist Humphry Davy discovered nitrous oxide ("laughing gas"), and suggested that it may have use as an anaesthetic.

John Dillinger robbed a grocery store, was caught and spent 9 years in prison. He later became "public enemy number one," before being gunned down by the FBI.

Robert Browning publishes his first poetry; it is poorly received.

Alfred Tennyson publishes his first poetry; it is poorly received.

College dropout Steven Jobs co-founded Apple Computer.

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[homeforsummer]

At age 24:

Nelly Bly made a solo trip around the world in less than 80 days for the New York World, beating Phileas Fogg's fictional record.

Radioastronomy grad student Jocelyn Bell Burnell observed an unknown signal from outer space; this resulted in the discovery of pulsars.

John Couch Adams became the first person to predict the position of a planetary mass beyond Uranus.

Johannes Kepler defended the Copernican theory and described the structure of the solar system.

Entrepreneur Ted Turner took over his father's billboard advertising business. He later launched CNN.

Tracy Chapman released her first album, winning three Grammies.

Edgar Allen Poe won a $50 prize for the story "MS. Found in a Bottle."

I removed the boring ones

 

[Omnis]

Bill Gates dropped out of school
Alex Graham Bell taught a dog to talk
Rand Paul debated with a senator.

 

[Beerz]

At age 33:

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic alone.

Jesus of Nazareth, a moral teacher and faith healer, was executed and eventually became the most renowned religious figure in history.

Vaudeville performer Walter Nilsson rode across the United States on an 8 1/2 foot unicycle.

Successful merchant Cyrus West Field retired at age 33 to devote himself to laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

Susan Presley took her ten-year-old son to Jarrell, Texas to help clean up after a tornado so he'd realize it wasn't just a "COOL!" thing he was seeing on TV.

Robert Hensel set a world record for the longest non-stop wheelie in a wheelchair. Mr. Hensel, who was born with spina bifida, covered a distance of 6.178 miles. He is also an internationally published poet with over 900 publications to date. He has since been nominated for the Pushcart Prize for renowned poets and writers.

Only left the cool ones.



PS: Who is this Jesus of Nazareth they speak of? I google it and came up with nothing...

 

[Steele_obsidion]

At age 25:

The future mythologist Joseph Campbell decided to move to Woodstock to read the classics for five years, nine hours a day. Living on very little, he would make himself readily available as a dinner guest.

Orson Welles coscripted, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane.

By this age, Charles Chaplin had appeared in 35 films.

P. T. Barnum bought a "160-year-old" slave woman and began a career in show business.

Janis Joplin made her first recording, "Cheap Thrills," which grossed over a million dollars within a few months.

Chris Burden created "Painting Shoot," which involved the artist being shot in the left arm by a friend.

Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic, thus winning a $25,000 prize.

Fayette, N.Y. farmhand Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He claimed he translated the Book of Mormon from some golden tablets revealed to him by the angel Moroni.

Bavarian painter Aloys Senefelder invented the lithograph.

French engineer Benoit Fourneyron invented the first waterwheel turbine.

Sarah Bernhardt scored her first triumph, being asked to repeat her theatrical performance before Napoleon III.

Activist Mollie Steimer became the first person to be deported from both the United States and the Soviet Union.

Physician Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile. As he collapsed unconscious into the arms of his trainer, the loudspeaker announced, "The time was three..." The uproar of the fans drowned out the rest of the announcement.

Wow, nice!👍

 

[TB]

Among others:

At age 32:

By the time of his death at age 32, Alexander the Great had conquered almost the entire known world.

Don Simpson got hit in the eye by his karate instructor and bled all over the place.

 

[DaddyVDUB]

At age 45:

Andre Marie Ampere, a French physicist, discovered the rules relating magnetic fields and electric currents.

George Foreman recaptured the heavyweight championship with a 10th round knockout, becoming the oldest person ever to win the heavyweight championship.

Earl Vickers created a program for displaying things other people accomplished when they were your age.John Vida quit a 3-pack-a-day smoking habit. As of six years later, he hasn't had a single drag off a cigarette or any other smoking utensil.

Cora Judd overcame a debilitating, lifelong aversion to math by taking three semesters of math classes at the local community college.

 

[Boffin]

At age 0:

Jesus Christ was born of a virgin.

(Baby) Evans, daughter of Mrs. T.W. Evans, became the first child to be born in an airplane. The first children to be born in a car, covered wagon, boat, etc., were also born at this age.

By eight weeks of age, Christian Friedrich Heinecken was speaking intelligible German. Many children can't even speak English at that age.

At six months of age, William J. Sidis, Jr., the son of a psychiatrist, knew the alphabet.

At nine months, the American actress Maude Adams first appeared on stage. She later played the title role in Peter Pan.

At ten months, Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scots.

Before he was one year old, Leonard Bernstein played his first piano note. He appeared to enjoy the note very much.

 

[Danny]

At 19, "Laura began showering on a regular basis."


If that isn't cause for celebration...

 

[Peterram430]

16

Albert Einstein wrote an essay containing the beginnings of the special theory of relativity. In it, Einstein showed that time and motion are relative to the observer.

Tennis player Tracy Austin became the youngest person to win the U.S. Open.

American film director Howard Hawks became a professional car and airplane racer.

Kaylie found one of the greatest guys in the world.

 

[daan]

At age 39:

Sharon Adams became the first woman to sail alone across the Pacific Ocean.

Charles Goodyear discovered vulcanization and led the way to the effective use of rubber.

John Cage composed his most famous work, consisting of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, calling for American independence. It sold 300,000 copies in five months.

Jimmy Connors reached the U.S. Open semifinals while playing against opponents half his age.

Judy Chicago unveiled her work "The Dinner Party," a room-sized reinterpretation of The Last Supper from a woman's perspective.

In the wake of the firing of Jocelyn Elders as Surgeon General for her use of the m-word, Earl Vickers proclaimed an International Day of Masturbation and used the internet to organize the biggest simultaneous orgasm in history, with media coverage around the world.

Not too sure about the last one...

 

[MP]

Kind of interesting comparing how little I have done in my life to others.

At age 20:

Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard and cofounded Microsoft.


English novelist Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, which was immediately successful.


Egyptian hermit Saint Anthony gave away his inheritance and joined a group of ascetics, eventually becoming the father of Christian Monasticism.

D. H. Lawrence began writing his first novel, The White Peacock.

Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, her second and most famous novel.


Polish-born Joseph Conrad, one of the great English language novelists, began learning English, his third language.

Charles Lindbergh learned to fly.

John Stuart Mill pulled himself out of depression and found that the ordinary events of life could again give him some moderate amounts of pleasure. He decided that happiness is attained not by making it the direct goal of life, but by fixing one's mind on some other pursuit.


The Greek philosopher Plato became a disciple of Socrates.

Alexander Graham Bell taught a stray Skye Terrier to talk. By training the dog to growl on cue and then manipulating his mouth and throat, Bell could make him produce the phonemes "ow, ah, ooh, ga, ma, ma," to say "How are you, Grandmama?"

 

[nk4e]

At age 100+:

Alice Porlock of Great Britain published her first book, Portrait of My Victorian Youth, when she was 102 years old.

Jeanne Calment, 119, was recognized as the world's oldest living person.

Correction: Yone Minagawa, 114, is the world's oldest living person.

Japanese teetotaller Tomoji Tanabe was named the world's oldest man.

At age 100, Johannes Heesters was the oldest guest in a Saturday night show, Wetten dass.

The biblical patriarch Methuselah died at the age of 969.

I wanted to see if something was done in the triple digits.
edit: I looked at Help for the Attitudinally Challenge then I found this one

Marriage

Another interesting system...

 

[TsukubaTrueno]

At age 15:

Benjamin Franklin contributed anonymously to a local newspaper, and he wrote ballads and peddled them in the streets. Also at this age, he became a free-thinker and a vegetarian.

Eddie Murphy performed his own comedy routines at youth centers in New York.

Louis Braille, blind since age 3, improved the method of raised writing.

Baker's apprentice Hanson Crockett Gregory invented the first ring doughnuts by knocking the center out of a fried doughnut.

Anne Frank wrote the final entry in her diary.

D. Eversz gave herself a concussion in Foot Locker after attempting to do a backflip off the counter.

A 15-year-old boy in southern India performed a Caesarean section on film, in an attempt to get his name in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon. The surgery was successful, but his physician father may face criminal charges and have his license revoked.

Some more.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

At age 18:

19th century composer Franz Schubert wrote nearly 200 songs (including two of his best songs), 3 masses, 3 symphonies, and a great deal of piano and chamber music before turning 19.

Troy Caldwell survived driving head-on through a granite church sign, a nurse-caused drug overdose that caused him to be legally dead for five seconds, and a Forty bottle to the face, all by age 18. The next year, he devoted himself to writing.

Samantha Larson became the youngest person to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents.

Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours for a high school science project.

Not to much interesting.

 

[Jedi2016]

Oh, that makes me feel so much better... right at the top of the list: Jesus died at my age.

 

[ExigeEvan]

At 19, "Laura began showering on a regular basis."


If that isn't cause for celebration...

I lol'd in a that's-my-ex's-name sort of way.

 

[Legendary]

At age 14:

Jake wrote a song that a lot of people at his camp liked.

Wow, who cares.

 

[TsukubaTrueno]

I lol'd Legendary!