Childhood memories of historical events?

[Clete Torres]

The United States pulled out of Vietnam when I was 5 years old so I don't really remember a lick of what was going on there. And by the time I got hip to what the Cold War was it had already started evaporating. No big deal to me at the time. About the only thing big that I can remember happening when I was a kid was when I was in the 4th grade and Ronald Regan got shot. That and when Elvis died but only because it made my mother cry. What childhood memories of historical events do you recall?

[hell]

I was on a bus ride of art class students on the way to the Oklahoma City zoo for a field trip on April 19, 1995; the day the Murrah Federal Building was bombed. When that sucker went off, everyone thought we had hit a really deep pothole or something, shook the damn bus since we were close enough to downtown. I remember seeing the huge smoke cloud rising when we were leaving the zoo later that day.

[Hullebullen]

The murder of Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 as well as the Chernobyl disaster also 1986 and the Challenger disaster that same year. A bad year, 1986...

[SuperShot5000]

Gulf War.
In NYC day of 1993 bombing.
Oklahoma City Bombing.
Nixon's death.
9-11.

[signatory]

emo thread :(

Reagan, Palme, russian subs, falkland's.

[Hawkeye]

I remember coming home from school (I was in fifth grade) and as I take my bike up the driveway I see my mom staring at the TV with her mouth open and a towell in her hands (she was baking a cake). She seemed in shock.

The date was 11 september 2001

[Abakan94]

I remember when the Glorminians Landed in paris, and offered an intergallactic worm hole for Earth, in exchange for the knowledge of how to produce consentrated amounts of berilium ice blocks. Earh took the offer, and the first mission took us to Alpha Quituran III where our ship was destroyed by the mass gravataional pull of the planet that unknown to us was 4 times the size of Jupitor.

i remember that

[toki]

I saw the Challenger catastrophe live on TV. Was in elementary school.

Chernobyl prevented me from playing in the sandbox.

Fall of the Wall: Our chemistry teacher cried. (I just thought 'nooo the ossis are coming', seriously i was afraid of the hordes coming :lol:) Some of the first who fled over hungary came to our school. Daniel from east Berlin came to my class. (Ick bin da Dänny) He still lives here.

I watched gulf war news before i went to school because i desperatly wanted to see some F-15 in action. I was addicted to scale models at that time and loved the F-15. Unfortuantely not much to see.

[Bob Lawbla]

July 21 1969

I remember standing outside with my friends looking at a full Moon and thinking "Holy Shyt, Armstrong is up the tromping around" I just knew we would be living on the Moon in no time. Pretty soon we were all eating Space Food Sticks and drinking Tang to get ready.

[futurepilot2004]

The IRA ceasefire in `94 is probably my most vivid childhood memory of a historical event. Was sent to the shop by my mum and the street was literally filled with people smiling and cheering and cars with the Irish flag hanging out of them blowing theirs horns.............turns out we were all a little too hopeful.

[Holstein]

Fall of the wall

Gulf War

[Hullebullen]

July 21 1969

I remember standing outside with my friends looking at a full Moon and thinking "Holy Shyt, Armstrong is up the tromping around" I just knew we would be living on the Moon in no time. Pretty soon we were all eating Space Food Sticks and drinking Tang to get ready.

When Hawkeye posted about coming home from school seeing 9/11 I suddenly felt old...now it feels slightly better again...

[California Joe]

From what my Mom tells me I was laying on the couch getting my diaper changed while they watched JFK get killed on TV. I remember most everything since. Name it. I remember all of Watergate, the My Lai massacre stuff.....I was a freshman in college watching Monday Night Football when they interrupted to say that some retard shot John Lennon......

[Bob Lawbla]

From what my Mom tells me I was laying on the couch getting my diaper changed while they watched JFK get killed on TV. I remember most everything since. Name it. I remember all of Watergate, the My Lai massacre stuff.....I was a freshman in college watching Monday Night Football when they interrupted to say that some retard shot John Lennon......


When the funeral was televised, my parents sat me up in front of the T.V. and took a picture. I still have the photo. I was on a Bus going to compete in a varsity Soccer game when the radio broadcast the Lennon killing.

[intelligenzija]

I remember how my father talked to my about the war in Yugoslavia in the early 90s. I was very young and was listening to the radio. Didn't understand any details only that there was war.

[Clete Torres]

From what my Mom tells me I was laying on the couch getting my diaper changed while they watched JFK get killed on TV. I remember most everything since. Name it. I remember all of Watergate, the My Lai massacre stuff.....I was a freshman in college watching Monday Night Football when they interrupted to say that some retard shot John Lennon......
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John Lennon's passing was a big deal in my house when I was a kid. My father used to have a little drinking problem and the night that John Lennon was killed I can remember he was very inebriated and he scooped both me and my brother up and put us in the car and drove us to the local record store so he could buy Double Fantasy, bad mouthing Yoko Ono the entire way.

[ABNINF]

I remember the Challenger disaster, mom picked me up from school crying, and watched it some more when she got home.

[cut]

I went to see the tank tracks on the road near the US embassy in Moscow a few days after the Coup, I was back home in England at the time, but my parents and baby sister were still out there. I remember being surprised that tanks were so heavy that they had left tracks in the road. I also remember seeing the shrine to the guy that got flattened by a tank (on the spot where it happened).

That's my clearest childhood memory, because I was there, stuff like the Gulf war doesn't count because it was on TV. All I remember is loads of boring press conferences with americans in desert BDU's that I hated.

[toki]

p-)
Worldcup Final 1990: I was in Austria watching the final with my evil anti-german cousins :lol:, cheering for the argies. We won 1:0. Diego Maradonna cried, Beckenbauer took a legendary silent and lonely walk across the pitch and my father hugged me.
We did it!
woot

[Kekkonen]

The murder of Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 as well as the Chernobyl disaster also 1986 and the Challenger disaster that same year. A bad year, 1986...

When Palme was reported dead I am supposed to have said to a friend, "Good, that man was taking all our money". Must have been some evil influential adult that was bad for me when I was a kid.

[cut]

p-)
Worldcup Final 1990: I was in Austria watching the final with my evil anti-german cousins :lol:, cheering for the argies. We won 1:0. Diego Maradonna cried, Beckenbauer took a legendary silent and lonely walk across the pitch and my father hugged me.
We did it!
woot

missed that one, it was before we got satellite TV, and I couldn't (under)stand russian TV.

[chaz89]

I remember the Iranian Hostage crisis, my elem teacher was a huge history buff and discussed a lot of world events and how they changed the world.

[mudbunny]

I remember the Challenger tragedy, all of the summits between Ronny and Gorbechev, Lennon gettin shot, the iranian hostage crisis, hell I can even remember my dad pulling out of my mom.

[DANJANOU]

God you people are young, even you Joe.

Cuban Missile Crisis (although barely)
JFK getting shot,
Oswald getting shot
RFK getting shot
King getting shot
Canada gets new Flag
Canadian Centennial
Tet (lots of people geeting shot)
Truduemania
October Crisis
Kent State (four more people getting shot)
US pullout of Vietnam (lots of people getting shot)
All the Apollo missions including the first landing and the Apollo 13 accident


Almost all of these before I became a teenager. Hmm saw a lot of people get shot on TV in my formative years, that explains a lot :)

[California Joe]

Heh, thanks gramps.

[gaz]

The first big event I really remember is the National Union of Miners going on strike in 1984 so I'd have been five. I have vague recollections of the miners on picket lines on the news, not to mention Arthur Scargill's ridiculous haircut.

[Saranof]

The 1st Gulf War, cos I was ****scared my dad would have to go over there

[zonk]

i remember

the challenger disaster, watched it live on tv in first grade
oklahoma city bombing
the gulf war(wanted to be a soldier immediatley after)
haiti
plane crash at fort bragg killing paratroopers
towele stadium sniper shootings at fort bragg
kosovo
i was shining my boots when the wtc got hit
when sam kinisson got killed
when freddy mercury and easy e died
kurt cobains suicide
tupac hanging on a few days after being shot
notorious b.i.g. getting killed
one of the hart brothers getting killed in a wrestling accident stunt
coca cola going to coke(conspiracy)
crystal pepsi
dale earnhardt dieing in the daytona 500(watched the crash live)
davie allison getting killed in a helicopter crash

[)I(EHbKA.]

when I was about in grade 3 the first chechen war started, everyday I used to hear about it on the news because my parents were always watching it, at that time I didn't give a damn, that certainly changed now

[Resurrection]

I was born in '91... so what should I have memories of? The only thing I can vividly remember is 9/11. My mom came in crying one morning and told me to turn on the TV. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

[Beinlausen]

I remember like it was yesterday when the US invaded Iraq the second time, I was hosting a LAN party and we were playing Desert Combat with CNN on in the bakcground, kicked ass with the reporters going on and hearing attacks in the background! :D OOrah

[Kekkonen]

I remember like it was yesterday when the US invaded Iraq the second time, I was hosting a LAN party and we were playing Desert Combat with CNN on in the bakcground, kicked ass with the reporters going on and hearing attacks in the background! :D OOrah

Are you talking about the invasion 2003? I remember sitting in a pizzeria owned by Arabs when Saddam's statue was torn down on TV, they cheered. But that was 2003 dude.

Surely you have earlier memories than that, and if not I'd suggest you stop drinking Jolt Cola.

[Holstein]

I remember like it was yesterday when the US invaded Iraq the second time, I was hosting a LAN party and we were playing Desert Combat with CNN on in the bakcground, kicked ass with the reporters going on and hearing attacks in the background! :D OOrah

I remember that to, I was out on a field excercise and when we got hands of a newspaper on the morning the frontpage just showed a pic of an american airplane bombing iraq and the text WAR.

[GrimReaper]

The first gulf war was raging on our TV, Sitting in an airtight room wearing a gas mask, while a scud missile lands less then a kilometer from my house.

[Abolith]

I remember:

when the Dogers were a good baseball team
when the olympic torch came right down the street in Los Angles (I was like ten feet away, it ruled)
when the challenger exploded :(
when the berlin wall fell

[Atlantic Friend]

The Carnation Revolution in Portugal, 1974. We were living in Lisboa at the time and I remember the tanks on the streets and the soldiers with a carnation at the tip of their rifle's muzzle. I also remember the song that served as some kind of signal to carry out the insurrection.

[Greek soldier]

I was watching TV in late January 1996 when I saw two Turkish journalists lowering the Greek flag in the Imia island... and only 12 years old... but realized that Greece was in a f**** up situation.

[IRONHORSE]

Ok Kids.
I Can Remember Sitting On The Curb With My Best Friend Watching Army Convoys Heading For Fort Leavenworth For Deployment To Europe Or The Pacific In 1943.
Working At The Fire Station When Kennedy Was Shot 11/22/63
Working At The Crash Station At Ft. Leavenworth When They Bought Lt. Cally In To Serve His Sentence In 1972.
Working At Ellington Afb In Houston, Tx. When Challenger Exploded.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

I remember Nixon running for President, and then later every sweater-wearing jagoff worth his Volvo having a "Don't Blame Me, I'm From Massachusetts" bumper sticker.

Bicentennial in 1976.

Iran hostage Crisis.

Patty Hearst.

Manson Family.

Beatles breaking up.

Moon Landings

Tet Offensive - though I only very vaguely - I remember my parents & grandparents being concerned about this war on TV but it all seemed very far away.

Busing for desegregation

Watergate

55 -mph speed limits

having to double the $ shown on the gas pump to pay because the pumps could not keep up with the rising price of gas.

gas rationing (by license plate digits)

the streets flowing with trash & the advent of Woodsy Owl (give a hoot, don't pollute - the Indian with the tear on Saturday AM TV all the time).

[toki]

55 -mph speed limits

? I first drove a car in the US in 96 and i think it was 55mph. Am i wrong? What is it now?

[tyovan]

Gulf War
Fall of the Soviet Union
Yugoslav Wars
Clinton's Impeachment
Russian submarine Kursk

[tyovan]

? I first drove a car in the US in 96 and i think it was 55mph. Am i wrong? What is it now?

I believe the national maximum used to be 55. Now in Pennsylvania and apparantly most other states in the Northeast it is 65, although I know in West Virginia it is 75. :-D

[Atlantic Friend]

Childhood TV memories :

Solidarnosc rising from dissident union to leading party in Poland.
200+ US Marine and 57 French paratroppers bombed in Beyrouth
Downing of KAL-007
Drought in Ethiopia and Israeli evacuation of the Falasha Ethiopian Jews.
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

[Holstein]

Gulf War
Fall of the Soviet Union
Yugoslav Wars
Clinton's Impeachment
Russian submarine Kursk

Shouldnt one of your memorys be: Getting drunk with mack

[James]

Iran hostage crisis
Fuel shortage in the 70s
Brits and Argies scrapping in the Falklands
Reagan
Beruit
Grenada
Panama
Soviets in A'Stan (interesting how that wheel has turned...)

[tyovan]

Shouldnt one of your memorys be: Getting drunk with mack

But it wasn't a childhood memory since I was 18 years old. ;-)

[frogfoot]

1982 Falklands War
1983 Louis De Funés dies at age 69
1984 Margaret Thatcher visiting my country/death of Indira Gandhi
1985 M.Gorbatchev went to power
1986 Challenger/Olof Palme/Gorbatchev and Reagan in Reykjavik/Chernobyl
1988 first signs of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe
1989 opening the iron curtain/East Germans fleeing to west/begin the fall of communism in Eastern Europe/revolution in Romania/last russian soldiers leave Afghanistan/end of Berlin Wall
1990 Iraq overrun Kuwait/Nelson Mandela free/beginning of the end of Yugoslavia

[Hydro]

I remember the Gulf War and Mandela walking free. I was only little at the time, and can only just remember them. On a more national level, I remember the IRA bombing of the RM barracks in my then home town in 1989 with 11 killed. I was only 3. My Dad packed my mother, me and my new born sister off back to Scotland. Too young to understand why.

[BadKarma26]

I remember how scared I was in '91 when my dad was in the Gulf. I remember he called me from a sat phone and said, "well son there are oil fires all around me and the sky is as dark as night" I remember (with the little concept of reality I had at the time) thinking that he must be in hell. MY DAD IS IN HELL!

In '93 I remember my dad's expression as he was watching the news about the soldiers being dragged around naked by the Somalians. I don't think I've ever seen him more angry.

I remember when the Broncos won the superbowl in '98 and John Elway was crying so I started to get choked up too. WHAT A DAY THAT WAS!

Then in '99 we won the superbowl again but nobody cared as much.

USS Cole in 2000 was pretty ****ty

Then September 11th...I was eating breakfast thinking about how badly I wanted to enlist.

I remember how excited I was when we found Saddam finally. ****in rat hole and all.

oh and taking the Oath of Enlistment. I've never been more proud in my life.

Edit: Oh **** I just realized half this crap isn't really childhood...but oh well same idea

[Speaker of the House]

I think I was in the 5th grade when the spaceshuttle blew up, remember it very clearly because our teacher was letting us watch the launch on tv that day.

Desert storm because I was at church and everyone was freaking out saying it was bible related, blah blah blah...(8th or 9th grade)

9-11, I had literally just got home from a deployment to Kuwait, as in blew into BWI the night before, took off from there and landed in SC early that morning, drove home, turned on the TV and BAM, the second plane hit.

[Yimmy]

I was a freshman in college watching Monday Night Football when they interrupted to say that some retard shot John Lennon......

I was in a bar (in England), when someone quizing me on events 'before my time', asked me who shot Lennon, without thinking I replied, "I don't know, but I would buy the guy a beer".

Never before have I seen a noisy pub go so quiet, it was like in the spaghetti westerns, when a stranger enters the tavern, and the piano stops....:cantbeli:

[EvanL]

I was in a bar (in England), when someone quizing me on events 'before my time', asked me who shot Lennon, without thinking I replied, "I don't know, but I would buy the guy a beer".

Never before have I seen a noisy pub go so quiet, it was like in the spaghetti westerns, when a stranger enters the tavern, and the piano stops....:cantbeli:
Yeh I did something like that once, telling a chinese joke in a chinese restaurant.

[W3s II]

September 11, 2001 (Not a childhood event but it was something major.)
The Berlin Wall
Oklahoma City
The Red Sox winning a World Series (Not really a childhood event but it will never happen again.)
The Gulf War

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

The Newcastle Earthquake

Still Australia biggest ever natural disaster. 13 people killed.

If it had of happened 1 hour later my mum would of been in the building where most of the people were killed.

[California Joe]

Smooth move ExLax.

Like the DJ in Washington DC that said on Martin Luther King Day....."A day off? Damn maybe someone should shoot 4 more of them so that we can have the whole week."

[Cabbage]

Falklands War...I remember saying I wanted the Argies to win. Like it was a football match. rofl

The Iranian Embassy siege. My aunt lived nearby so we would visit often. You could cut the tension like a knife around there at the time. I remember seeing a giant tarpaulin covering the perimeter of the area around Princes Gate...you couldn't see anything beyond it.

A little known fact: JFK was born in the building next to the ex-Iranian embassy.

[Clete Torres]

It's been a long time since I've heard anyone use the phrase "Smooth move ExLax." I'm talking 10-15 years. It's a good phrase.

[EvanL]

It's been a long time since I've heard anyone use the phrase "Smooth move ExLax." I'm talking 10-15 years. It's a good phrase.
Like the bees knees.

[mudbunny]

"Like the bees knees."

or the cats ass.

[EvanL]

"Like the bees knees."

or the cats ass. Or the puffins pecker.

[pathfinder82]

Weird crap seems to always happen on my B-day, April 19. Waco, Oklahoma city, the bay of pigs, Pope Benedict was elected and some other things I cant remember right now.

[Aerosoul]

well some morons think it's cool to do **** on hitler's b-day or the day before, so there ya go.
columbine was on the 20th.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

? I first drove a car in the US in 96 and i think it was 55mph. Am i wrong? What is it now?

A lot of places - like the people's republic of Massachusetts held on much longer than the feds required. It was just too much of a revenue generator to let go. But now most of the NE is 65 - most others are 70 and many states where men are still men are 75. I thought that in Montana during the day in good weather there was no limit...but I guess they reascended that?

[Bombtrack]

I remember being in the 8th grade and coming home each day to "watch some war." They televised the NATO bombing runs on Kosovo.

Also the day i came home and found out about the Columbine shootings that same year, and being pissed off that "actions movies wont be as violent and video games are gonna suck now"

[EvanL]

I remember being in the 8th grade and coming home each day to "watch some war." They televised the NATO bombing runs on Kosovo.

Also the day i came home and found out about the Columbine shootings that same year, and being pissed off that "actions movies wont be as violent and video games are gonna suck now"
You know it is really heartless to say this, but I felt the exact same way.

[Bombtrack]

yeah our generation is pretty ****ty huh?

[EvanL]

yeah our generation is pretty ****ty huh?
Yeh.. Conformist bastards
I refuse to conform
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[Bombtrack]

Yeh.. Conformist bastards
I refuse to conform
http://www.jeffseidel.com/russia05/images/NonConformists.jpg

A skinhead, a hippie, and a beatnik all walk into a bar...

[EvanL]

A skinhead, a hippie, and a beatnik all walk into a bar...
There is only one stool left....
What do they do?

[Bombtrack]

Turn it upside down and invite you.

[EvanL]

Turn it upside down and invite you.
but there are only 3 legs on a stool.

[Bombtrack]

Not always, funboy

[EvanL]

Not always, funboy
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[kawaiku]

*When I was very young I remeber the '89 Earthquake in San Fransico. The whole damn place was shaking and all I remeber is my mom holding my brother(he was a year old) in a doorway.
*Some war in some desert where we kicked some serious butt.
*Columbine: My fist thought was for the victims and the second one was o crap now my generation is gonna get screwed because of this.
*Oklahoma: Didnt really know too much except the fact that it was really bad.
*9-11: Thought it was a movie and went to school listening to my friends make fun of it,3 years ago during my freshman year in high school. Been thinkin about joinin ever since.

[MEGR]

9/11
Breaking of the Berlin Wall
War in Kosovo
War on Terror
Restore Hope
Nixon's funeral
Lewinsky Scandal
Mr. T
Oklahoma City Bombing
Columbine and the other shooting before it.
Red Sox winning the World series.
New Pope

[zonk]

if it happened after 1985 i probably remember it

[Beinlausen]

Are you talking about the invasion 2003? I remember sitting in a pizzeria owned by Arabs when Saddam's statue was torn down on TV, they cheered. But that was 2003 dude.

Surely you have earlier memories than that, and if not I'd suggest you stop drinking Jolt Cola.

Still an historical event ;) Besides, nobody mentioned it :P

I also remember the Somalia stuff vaguely, also that my mom kept me from seeing the news back then... Women :P

[Apathy]

9/11 happened when I was 11 years old. Sad day.

[Hawkeye]

9/11 happened when I was 11 years old. Sad day.



Wait; you're as old as me?
Born in 1990?


Because if so that'd explain everything ...

[Zarathustra]

I was a bit young when the war exploded in the Balkans but that's probably the worst thing happened since I'm born.

I don't include 9/11 and any latest terror strike as a childhood memories though, I was already 18.

[Apathy]

Wait; you're as old as me?
Born in 1990?


Because if so that'd explain everything ...

Yeah, I was born in 1990. What? You thought a grown man would post random pictures all day?

[Count Lippe]

well some morons think it's cool to do **** on hitler's b-day or the day before, so there ya go.
columbine was on the 20th.

Two days later would be on Lenins birthday. Wouldn't that be unamerican?p-)

[Scottie]

World War I was going to start in 8 years.

[Freibier]

I was eight and me and my mother were going to the Oktoberfest. When we came out of the subway, there was a huge crowd and I saw a couple of people that were covered in blood. Few moments later we found out that a bomb went off there just a couple minutes before :(

[Chuckie]

I remember back in '79 almost in tears after seeing Han Solo frozen in carbonite. Seems like just yesterday.

Seriously though I think the furthest thing I can remember back is waiting on lines for gas every few days, depending on our license plate number.

Oh and at somepoint I remeber being worried about being hit by a peice of Skylab. I guess that was the late 70's.

[Gringo]

My earliest memory of an historical event was probably the first Gulf War. I was only about 3 or 4 years old at the time. I distinctly remember watching the news, and they were showing footage of the 'Highway of Death' from Kuwait to Basra, and the hundreds of destroyed vehicles and littered bodies from Allied attacks.

[DANJANOU]

Just thought of another one, of interest to Canadians and Russians at least, especially considering the game is on now.

I was 11 or 12 during the Canada Russia summit series. I was in either grade 7 or 8 and they wheeled those big TVs on the stands into the classrooms and we all got to watch it live.

Funny I just noticed that Vladislav Tretiak the Russian Goalie is at Turin covering the present Canada Russia game for Russian TV

[California Joe]

Tretiak was an awesome goalie.

[Conga]

I remember the stinking east German cars appearing in Braunschweig after the wall came down

[CHERK]

I went to see the tank tracks on the road near the US embassy in Moscow a few days after the Coup, I was back home in England at the time, but my parents and baby sister were still out there. I remember being surprised that tanks were so heavy that they had left tracks in the road. I also remember seeing the shrine to the guy that got flattened by a tank (on the spot where it happened).

That's my clearest childhood memory, because I was there, stuff like the Gulf war doesn't count because it was on TV. All I remember is loads of boring press conferences with americans in desert BDU's that I hated.

Moscow

Me and my school buddy skiped school and went to downtown to check out what was going on. As were wondering around just across Moscow river from the White House (Russian government residence) the tank squad moved on the near by bridge. We tried to get on to the bridge, to get closer to tanks, but were cought by military patrol (luckily they let us go plus I learned a lot of new words). As we were planing another strategic move a few meters from the bridge, 80 meters from the tanks, about 800 meters from the White House, tanks opened fire at the White House. It was surreal to see direct tank hits in the center of Moscow.

[Lancero]

The Carnation Revolution in Portugal, 1974. We were living in Lisboa at the time and I remember the tanks on the streets and the soldiers with a carnation at the tip of their rifle's muzzle. I also remember the song that served as some kind of signal to carry out the insurrection.

"Grândola Vila Morena" - that's the name of the song. Grândola is a village in Alentejo, in the south of Portugal, with a great number of anti-fascist supporters who used to live hidding

[Red]

I was in the midst of a coup attempt in the 1980's in Nigeria.My house was next dorr to the place where the coup plotters were executed.

[Johnny_H02]

The oldest thing I can think of, is being a kid and seeing Tiananmen square on the news, that guy standing in front of the tank. I also remember the fall of the Berlin wall seeing that on the news as well.

I was only 6 or so.

[zonk]

the big quak in cali during the dodgers world series game

[tuercas]

i remember several historical events;

the challenger disaster
My father never missed a space launch and i was watching this with him on our old rca black and white tv, when the shuttle exploded and the booster rockets flew off i asked my father if they where supposed to do that, at that time the news anchor broke in anouncing the shuttle had exploded

the mexico city earthquake of 1985
my mother had just droped of my brother at the bus stop and we came back to get me ready to go to my school, she turned on the news and saw that the early morning news show was being broadcast from the univeriity of mexico. i remember from several day trains of equipment crossing from the US headed for mexico city, a lot of the food aid was stolen in nuevo laredo and was for sale in most neighborhoods.