These pop-culture favorites will officially be old next year

McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (1983) First tested in previous years, these bits of chicken dander went nationwide 37 years ago. Note: These are not the original nuggets from 1983 but we hear they can last 30 years unattended. — **McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (1983)**

First tested in previous years, these bits of chicken dander went nationwide 37 years ago. Note: These are not the original nuggets from 1983 but we hear they can last 30 years unattended.
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Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" (1998) Britney Spears had a great degree of creative input. She decided the story should follow a girl at school and that she should wear that controversial midriff-baring uniform. "My idea originally was just jeans and T-shirts," the video's director Nigel Dick told MTV News. "We were at the wardrobe fitting and Britney holds up the jeans and T-shirts and says, 'Wouldn't I wear a schoolgirl outfit?'" — **Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" (1998)**
Britney Spears had a great degree of creative input. She decided the story should follow a girl at school and that she should wear that controversial midriff-baring uniform. "My idea originally was just jeans and T-shirts," the video's director Nigel Dick told MTV News. "We were at the wardrobe fitting and Britney holds up the jeans and T-shirts and says, 'Wouldn't I wear a schoolgirl outfit?'"
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A number of pop-culture touchstones celebrate milestones in 2020.

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Prepare to feel really old.

While some of us were busy going to school, starting a career, raising kids, and paying ungodly mortgage payments, Britney Spears' debut single "...Baby One More Time" decided to turn 22 years old.

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That's right, you have now known who Spears is for more than two decades. Speaking of pop singers, proto-Britney icon Madonna turns 62 years old in 2020.

Meanwhile, this year will also mark 22 years since the Monica Lewinsky scandal rocked the Clinton White House. We've been making hacky intern jokes for way too long.

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Here on the Houston and Texas front, it should be noted that the Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura fight turns 27 years old this coming August. How should us Texans celebrate the occasion?

By getting into a bar fight with a guy in a White Sox hat of course.

This summer (June 1 to be exact) will mark 52 years since Astroworld opened to the delight of Houston kids. Don't worry, Chron.com will remind you all about that anniversary.

Craig Hlavaty is a reporter for Chron.com and HoustonChronicle.com. He's an intolerable native Texan with too much ink in his skin and too much brisket stuck in his teeth.