The last samurai existed into the 1870s, Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, and early fax technology (the "printing telegraph") was patented in 1843. This creates a 22-year window (1843- 1865) where President Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.
Both the anime and manga have a suprising amount of nudity.
They last won in 1999
David Attenborough (May 8th 1926)
Jackie Kennedy, First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (born July 28 1929)
Anne Frank (born june 12 1929)
Martin Luthor King Jr. (Born January 15 1929)
Walter Mondale, Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (Born January 5 1928)
Boris Yelsin President of Russia from 1991 to 1999 (born February 1st 1931)
Mikhail Gorbachev, Last President of the Soviet Union (Born March 2nd 1931)
Additionally, John Kapelos (the janitor) would have been born in 1997, and Richard Vernon (the principal) 1980.
The last major war in western Europe, the Franco-Prussian war, would've been in 1951–1952, and the Cold War would last from 2028–2072.
My parent's would've been alive and probably served in WW1, and I could've served in the later years of WW2. If I survived, I'd be around 66 by the end of the Cold War.