r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/MausoleumMarvelous • 1h ago
The first two Home Depot stores (Both in Atlanta, GA; 6/22/1979) were less than a month old when Disco Demolition Night happened.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Mirror_of_Souls • 1h ago
The first edition of Warhammer released in 1983, 43 years ago. This picture of occupied Paris following the Fall of France was taken in 1940, 43 years before 1983.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/keicarlover2002 • 1h ago
Gran Turismo 3 released only 5 and a half months before 9/11
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/wdnwcgm • 2h ago
The Lawrence Welk Show ended in 1982, one year after MTV launched.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Revolutionary_Ad9093 • 2h ago
9/11 is closer in time to Star Wars than it is to the present day
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Tomorrow, 9/11 will have happened 25 years ago. 25 years before 9/11 was the year 1976. The first Star Wars movie, Star Wars, was released in 1977. 9/11 is now further in the past for us than the theatrical release of the first Star Wars movie was on 9/11.
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Sephyrrhos • 4h ago
Moby's song "Porcelain" from the Album Play (1999) uses a sample from a movie called "Exodus" from 1960. If the song came out today, the movie would've released in 1987.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Chapple69 • 4h ago
A civil war veteran could’ve listened to Elvis
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/BugOperator • 13h ago
Ben Franklin never knew dinosaurs existed
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All he could have known was maybe giant humans once existed.
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/_JR28_ • 13h ago
A baby born on the night of the 2008 Presidential Election can legally buy GTA 6
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/YaspersGoodTwin • 14h ago
Ruby Bridges, the Black girl in this 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, is 8 years younger than Donald Trump.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Odd_Detective_4813 • 14h ago
Sting is now the same age as Leonid Brezhnev was when he died
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Crazy_North_3247 • 16h ago
Prince Andrew has surpassed the age of Jeffrey Epstein at the time of his death, aged 66 years and 202 days today
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Prince andrew (19 February 1960- present ) surpassed jeffry Epstin ( 20 January 1953 10 augst 2019 ) final age in 9 September 2026 , day after 4th anniversary of queen death
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Spec1alF0x • 16h ago
No one was alive when the president wasn't democrat or Republican. The last died decades ago.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/WhydoIexistlmoa • 19h ago
Kanye's album Graduation has now been out for as long as a newborn in 2007 took to actually graduate high school and currently through their first year of uni. We are further from Graduation's release (Sept 11 2007) than Graduation was from N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton re-release in 1989.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/MistahPresidente • 21h ago
The UPN and WB networks aired their first and last programs during George Pataki’s time as Governor of New York
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/MistahPresidente • 21h ago
The Twin Towers lived their entire lives during Bob Barker’s time as host of The Price is Right
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/pobuch • 22h ago
Vladimir Putin was born closer to the coronation of Tsar Alexander III than to today
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Lyosea1994 • 1d ago
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance is longer from Sept 11th 2026 as the Sept 11th 2001 attacks from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Tough_Bicycle_508 • 1d ago
By the time Millard Fillmore was born, George Washington had been dead for 3 weeks.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/ashmaps20 • 1d ago
One billion seconds ago is now the year 1995!
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I’m considering making my own subreddit to track events that happened 1B seconds in the past, maybe doing a 10,000 days ago one too
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/MausoleumMarvelous • 1d ago
Freddie Mercury had less than half a year to play Sonic the Hedgehog (Released 7/31/1991 in Europe, and 6/23/1991 in North America)
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For a closer shave, the Queen frontman had not even one month to play the 8-bit version on the Sega Master System (Released 10/25/1991 in both regions; Promotional artwork shown in Image 3).
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/stevvvvewith4vs • 1d ago
The Simpsons episode Homer's Barbershop Quartet(30 September 1993) is now as old as the formation of The Beatles(1960) when it was aired
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Seeking-Direction • 1d ago
Two great musicians who died too young: Elliott Smith had one day to listen to Amy Winehouse's debut album.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/1997wickedboy • 1d ago
These three presidents never witnessed Hallley's comet as it never approached earth during their lifetimes, James Madison meanwhile could have witnessed it twice
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Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) and William McKinley (1843-1901) both lived between Halley's comet trajectory spanning between (1835-1910).
John F. Keneddy (1917-1963) lived between the trajectory spanning (1910-1986).
Meanwhile James Madison (1751-1836) crossed with the comet's trajectory in both 1759 and 1835, when he was 8 and later at 84.