Timothée Chalamet turns 29 today. That's the same age Jason Alexander was in Seinfeld's pilot.
Timeline comparisons! For reference: She was born in 1929. Barbara Walters is 5'5" or 1.65m. We don't want actual scale comparisons though, just timeline comparisons!
[August 31st, 1945] German women pause in their harvesting to watch the landing of paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division outside Berlin, Germany
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[August 31st, 1945] Frances Rafferty
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[August 31st, 1945] Yank - Russian Partner
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[August 31st, 1945] President Truman writes British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, urging him to allow a reasonable number of Europe’s Jews to emigrate to Palestine
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Future - "March Madness" released [10YA - Aug 31]
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Taylor Swift - "Wildest Dreams" released [10YA - Aug 31]
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel famously declares "We can do it!" in reference to the refugee crisis [10YA - Aug 31]
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The Constant Gardener released [20YA - Aug 31]
Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster - 953 Shiites killed in mass stampede during religious festival [20YA - Aug 31]
20 years ago today, Bush was infamously photographed surveying Hurricane Katrina damage - August 31, 2005
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Bush flies over Louisiana and Alabama to survey Katrina's damage [20YA - Aug 31]
August 31, 1995. Yeltsin denounces the NATO bombing campaign in Serbia.
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[August 30th, 1925] Babe Ruth is suspended and fined $5,000 by New York Yankees manager Miller Huggins for "misconduct off the playing field".
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[August 30th, 1945] Former POW Cpl. Leopold Anthony Kulikowski of Muskegon, Michigan on the hospital ship USS Benevolence, anchored in Tokyo Bay
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[August 30th, 1945] The first day of the Allied occupation of Japan. IJN Nagato was recruited by the US military in Yokosuka. On the right is USS Horace A. Bus (APD-124).
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[August 30th, 1945] State Fair released
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Scott Walker endorses a border wall with Canada [10YA - Aug 30]
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Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its native American name [10YA - Aug 30]
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The MTV VMAs are held [10YA - Aug 30]
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Kanye West's Late Registration album released [20YA - Aug 30]
Hurricane Katrina floodwaters cover a portion of New Orleans [20YA - Aug 30]
