A look back at some of the highlights from 1924, the year Inouye was born:

Republican Calvin Coolidge was president; Women had enjoyed the right to vote for five years; Waterman Duke Kahanamoku won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics; American astronomer Edwin Hubble announced that there were galaxies that existed beyond the Milky Way; The U.S. military completed the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe; The film industry was still experimenting with sound; Willem Einthoven won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the electrocardiogram, which measure electric activity in the heart; The Moana Surfrider was the lone hotel on Waikiki’s shoreline.

Inouye likes to remind people that he’s older than his colleague, Sen. Daniel Akaka.

In four days, Akaka turns 87, too.