These 30 milestones will make you feel old in 2022

It’s been 25 years since MMMBop was released and two decades since Ansett collapsed. These 2022 milestones are sure to make you feel your age.

It’s been 50 years since Gough Whitlam was elected, marking Australia’s first Labor government in 23 years.

It has been 10 years since the AFL season which sparked the Essendon doping scandal, while two decades have passed since the Euro became the official currency of most European countries.

Reading that is bound to make many of us feel old.

Here are 30 milestones that will happen in 2019, guaranteed to make you feel your age.

The movie 8 Mile premiered and Ansett folded two decades ago.

– Babies born in 2006 will this year be driving with L-plates.

– It will be 15 years since the first iPhone was presented by Steve Jobs during a keynote in San Francisco.

– David Hasselhoff, Liam Neeson and Steven Segal will all turn 70 this year.

– Barbra Streisand and Harrison Ford will turn 80.

– It will be 15 years since John Howard lost the 2007 election to Kevin Rudd, getting ditched from his seat in the process.

– It will be 10 years since Sydney’s last AFL premiership and 19 years since Brisbane’s.

– Gaten Matarazzo, the actor who plays Dustin in Stranger Things, will turn 20.

– Babies born when Delta Goodrem released her hit single Born to Try will this year celebrate their 18th birthdays.

Hanson’s hit song MMMBop was released 25 years ago, while Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo will turn 20.

– Olivia Newton-John’s hit song Physical will turn 40. Newton-John herself will turn 74.

– 2022 will see the 30th anniversary of Jeff Kennett’s landslide win over Joan Kirner in the 1992 state election.

– It will be the 35th anniversary of the Hoddle St massacre which has seen mass murderer Julian Knight imprisoned ever since.

– It will be 35 years since the Australia Card, a proposed ID card for all Australian citizens and residents, was abandoned.

– Dwayne Johnson, Sofia Vergara, Ben Affleck and Cameron Diaz will all turn 50.

– Earworm pop song MMMBop by Hanson will be 25 years old in 2022.

– Microblogging site Tumblr will see its 15th birthday.

– In May it will be 15 years since the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann in Portugal. She would now be 18 years old.

– This month marks ten years since the Costa Concordia sank off Italy killing 32.

It has been a decade since hit song Gangnam Style and viral documentary KONY 2012 were released.

– It will be a full decade since the KONY 2012 viral documentary that aimed to have African war lord Joseph Kony arrested. Kony is still at large.

– In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, having been Monarch for 70 years. She will turn 96 in April.

– It has been 20 years since the Euro currency was introduced across Europe.

– It will be 50 years since the election of Gough Whitlam in the 1972 federal election, marking the first Labor government in 23 years.

– It will be 20 years in March since the formal closure of Ansett Australia after 66 years of operation.

– Travel and lifestyle program Getaway will have its 30th anniversary; it is the nation’s longest-running show of its type.

– The release of the film 8 Mile starring rapper Eminem will be two whole decades ago.

– The Covid pandemic will enter its third year, if you needed any reminder.

Sofia Vergara and Dwayne Johnson are among the famous faces turning 50 in 2022.

– It will be 10 years since the AFL season that sparked the Essendon doping scandal, and Jobe Watson’s controversial Brownlow win.

– February will mark 40 years since the trial of Lindy Chamberlain for the murder of her daughter Azaria, for which she was imprisoned but later acquitted.

– In 2022, the movies Sister Act, Basic Instinct and Reservoir Dogs Will all be 30 years old.

– It will be a quarter of a century since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

– It will be a full decade since South Korean pop artist PSY released his viral hit song Gangnam Style.