32 Historical Photos That Will Destroy Your Perception Of Time

Time is flying by, and that's especially the case the older you get. Sometimes, it's easy to forget how major milestones and historical moments overlap with one another.

Below is a round-up of 32 historically significant moments that you may or may not have been aware occurred around the same time.

1. The Titanic sunk in the same year that Fenway Park opened.

2. Nelson Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994. That same year also marks O.J. Simpson's infamous car chase in the white Bronco.

3. In 1997, the world mourned the death of Princess Diana, who passed away in a car accident on August 31 in Pont de l'Alma, France. Just two months before, J.K. Rowling changed the landscape of children's literature by releasing Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone in the U.K., per Time Magazine.

4. John F. Kennedy was assassinated just months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

5. 1980 marked the murder of John Lennon and the eruption of Mount St. Helens.

6. Hitler's rise to power in 1933 coincided with the end of Prohibition in the US.

7. Just a few months after Marilyn Monroe's death, the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted.

8. McDonald's established its first franchise restaurant under Ray Kroc in 1955 — the same year Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

9. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess of Hohenberg, catalyzed WWI in 1914, according to historians. However, that same year, Charlie Chaplin made history when he debuted his most famous character, The Tramp, in The Kid Auto Races At Venice.

10. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the completion of Mount Rushmore occurred a few months apart from each other.

11. The year The Beatles bid farewell to their fans with a final performance was the same year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

12. Disney's first full-length feature film, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs debuted in 1937, according to Britannica. A year later, the Spanish Civil War began.

13. 1950 marked the beginning of the Korean War, and Marlon Brando's film debut in The Men.

14. The US boycotted the Olympics in 1980 in response to the Soviet-Afghan War — one of the biggest protests in Olympic history. That year also marked one of the greatest feats in video game history: the debut of Pac-Man.

15. Considered the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman at the time, per PBS, the University of Texas tower massacre occurred on August 1, 1966. Just days later, The Beatles released their album, Revolver on August 5, according to their official website.

16. The first IBM PC, known as IBM Model 5150, changed the technology landscape when it debuted in 1981, per Computer History. That same year also marked the infamous moment where Barbera Walters asked Katharine Hepburn the million-dollar question: "what kind of tree are you?"