Life in lessons....

You said your birthday is 8 / 31 / 1977 which means you are 26 years old and about:
60 years 10 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 87
57 years 3 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 83
53 years 3 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 79
45 years 11 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 72
43 years 9 months younger than Larry King, age 70
37 years 7 months younger than Ted Koppel, age 64
34 years 2 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 60
31 years 2 months younger than George W. Bush, age 57
26 years 2 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 52
21 years 10 months younger than Bill Gates, age 48
17 years 0 months younger than Cal Ripken Jr., age 43
11 years 2 months younger than Mike Tyson, age 37
7 years 1 month younger than Jennifer Lopez, age 33
1 year 8 months younger than Tiger Woods, age 28
4 years 10 months older than Prince William, age 21

and that you were:
24 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America
22 years old on the first day of Y2K
20 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash
17 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
16 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
15 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center
13 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
12 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
8 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
6 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
5 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
3 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
2 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began

Thanks to broomster (over at Live Journal)
If you want to try it too, here's the link: http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html