What world or national events do you recall vividly?

[Happy Panther]

Katrina

First Gulf war (I was on a plane overseas on my birthday...there were media reports not to fly)

[pstall]

Overachiever.

just a good memory :conehead:

[Kevin Greene]

Kirk Gibson, '88 World Series.

[cookinwithgas]

Armstrong on the moon

Watergate - although I had no idea what was going on, the adults were freaking

Fireworks at the Statue of Liberty in 1976

Actually seeing Star Wars

Iran Hostages freed

Lennon big time

Lebanon Barracks

Challenger - captain telling us the news while in the sub on patrol

The Berlin Wall coming down, never thought I would see it in my lifetime

Clintons Inauguration

9/11 of course

Invading Iraq, knowing it would not end and powerless to do anything about it

Obamas election night and the inauguration

[mr beauxjangles]

9/11

Columbine

The VA Tech Shooter

Dow 10,000

New Years 2000 - no Y2K fallout

OJ acquittal

Bill Clinton impeached

Fist day of Gulf War

Gorbachev resigns

President Obama elected

President Obama innaugurated

Establishment of the EU

Columbia disaster (I was four when Challenger happened, and I remember thinking "This is what is must have felt like, except so much worse)

[LiQuiD]

The first time I had two chicks at once.

Listen Old McDonald, your farming days don't count

[Matt Foley]

listen old mcdonald, your farming days don't count

eieio

[Carolina Husker]

Pearl Harbor!

Damn Germans.

[John Fox]

Damn Germans.

[neverlosethefeeling]

You guys are old as crap.

[SMACKDAB]

When Charlie Brown quit the "Ho Bizness", and converted to Ramadan......sad, sad day.........

[SMACKDAB]

Or....there was this moment I remembered.....

[Jbro]

That Mexico airplane hijacking.

[Jangler]

I remember the night John Lennon was shot, and Howard Cosell breaking the news to the country on MNF.