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Originally Posted by ossiblue
As others have said, this is correct^. By this reasoning, 2000 was not the beginning of the 21st century as the public recognizes, 2001 marked the beginning of the current century.
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Kennedy said "We choose to go to the moon in this decade".
We did in 1969 but from watching myriad moon shot YouTube videos, NASA held that extra year in their hip pocket.
FWIW, he pronounced decade "de-cade" vs "dec-ade" but in that Rice speech he also pronounced it dec-ade. See 2:55 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th5A6ZQ28pE