How many years ago was 1959?

How long ago was 1959?

To put into perspective how long ago 1959 was:

• A person who turned 21 in 1959 is now 87 years of age.
• The teenagers that existed in 1959 are now 79–85 years old.
• Most of the people who were born in 1959 are retired.
• Six decades have passed since then.
• Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy were still alive.
• The Moon is moving away from Earth at roughly 1.49 inches per year. That means that it has moved away by about 98 inches since 1959.
• There have been roughly 3,432 weekends since then.
• Names such as the Beatles, Muhammad Ali, and Sean Connery were not famous at the time.
• Popular songs that year included the likes of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by The Platters, "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price, "Venus" by Frankie Avalon, "Come Softly to Me" by The Fleetwoods, "The Happy Organ" by Dave "Baby" Cortez, and "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison.
• Films such as "Solomon and Sheba", "On the Beach", "Pillow Talk", "A Summer Place", "The FBI Story", and "But Not for Me" were playing at movie theaters in 1959.
• The Earth has travelled 297 billion miles through space since 1959.
• People were using rotary phones.
• Due to the expansion of the Atlantic Ocean, the distance between the United States and Europe has grown 165 centimeters since 1959.
• A person who was born that year has had roughly 132–198 colds in their lifetime.
• The world has gone through 264 seasons of weather.
• Plastic wasn't popular yet.
• The vast majority of households did not have smoke detectors in 1959.
• The miniskirt wasn't popular yet.
• "Bonanza", "The Twilight Zone", "Rawhide", "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", and "The Untouchables" were among the TV shows that started airing that year.