Do you remember where you were when...?

Question

For my generation (born 1982) I can think of when Princess Diana died, and 9/11. What else can you think of?

Answer 1

I was born in 1970, so here's my list.

Jimmy Carter elected (with a babysitter, I was six at the time)
Ronald Reagan elected (home watching the results on the tele)
Reagan being shot (I learned about it right after coming home from school)
Columbia's landing after its first mission (I was in school, trying to watch it through a fuzzy broadcast)
Downing of KAL 007 (at home, getting ready for school)
Challenger Explosion (in my room at home when my mom called to tell be the news)
Bombing of Tripoli (home watching the news)
Black Monday stock market crash (on the tele at high school)
Shooting down of Iranian commercial flight by US Navy (in California on a huge driving trip)
Elder Bush inauguration (TV room in my dormatory at college)
First bomb raids on Baghdad (dorm room watching on the tele, I remember the Dean of Students walking by)
Waco fire (heard about it watching Crossfire from my apartment)
Oklahoma City bombing (heard about it coming home from school)
O.J. Simpson verdict announced (home watching on the tele, had to set it up since I wasn't into TV at the time)
Death of Princess Diana (on the radio waking up at home)
Impeachment of Clinton (in Chicago for board gaming)
Columbine incident (read about on Yahoo! from school computer lab)
Start of year 2000 (watching the celebrations on the tele)
Younger Bush inaugurated (in Chattanooga TN at a board game convention, made comment about the new leader of the free world, which some British players had reservations over)
9/11 attacks (at work, listening to the radio)
Columbia destruction (at home with my mother, two days before our trip to Hawai'i)
Start of Iraq War (watching it at home)

I'm sure there's others, but these are the big ones that I remember.

Answer 2

I am a little older, but I remember being at a bar and seeing the breaking news when Princess Diana died.

On 9/11, I was working.

What about...when Kurt Cobain killed himself? I was studying in Rome at the time.

Answer 3

To name a few...

Interest Rates go through the roof.
Housing prices rise.
Hostages taken in Iran
The Shah of Iran deposed
Regan elected and pronounced winner before polls closed in CA
The Challenger blows up on take off
Regan reelected
Regan shot
Bush I promised "no new taxes"
Bush I loses to Wild Bill Clinton
Divorce becomes commonplace.
Interenet technology
The Shah dies of liver disease in a foreign country
Housing prices rise
Berlin wall falls
Hillary announces she "doesn't bake cookies."
Jim Henson died
Hostages Released
Gulf War
Clinton pardona a BIG arms dealer.
The Monica Lewinski scandal
Hillary stands by her man
Nixon died
Regan died
River Phoenix died
Iraq invasion
BCCI scandal
Housing prices rise
Roe vs Wade became a big issue
Enron debacle

And lots more but it is late and I can't think anymore.

Answer 4

I remember when Nixon resigned..we were on vacation and heard it on the radio.
The long lines for gas in the 70's. We were somewhere in Colorado.
When Reagan was shot..I was in High School geometry class.
The shuttle explosion...I remember just sitting and staring at the stars that night.
Oklahoma City bombing..I was at home and was just terrified, my little brother lives there and at the time was working at a hospital pharmacy, and part time with EMS..he was at the pharmacy when it happened and was not allowed to leave, we found out later.
9/11...I had just taken my daughter to preschool and was going to work when I heard reports on the radio...had to pull over and cry before I could get to work

Answer 5

I remember a little about Watergate in 1974, the fall of Saigon in 1975, the Space Shuttle Columbia going in to space for the first time in 1981 and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, just to name a few.

I just remember watching Watergate and the fall of Saigon on the TV news. I watched very enthusiastically to watch Columbia go up for the first time. I was disappointed when it did go up the day it was suppose to, but it did go up the next day. I got up early both days just before school. I was in college when the Challenger blew up. I overheard some people talking about, but I did not believe what they were saying until I saw it on TV.

Answer 6

While most of my generation (born 1986) won't remember the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 (I sure don't), they'll remember the 2000 presidential election, the whole Y2K scare, where they were on January 1, 2000, the Subway bombings in London, and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I for one will remember the death of Ray Charles and how Reagan's death overshadowed it so much in the media.

Answer 7

My earliest? Armstrong walks on the Moon. Sitting with my Dad watching every second of it. Born 1965, was 4 years, 4 months old.

Answer 8

- Challenger explosion: in Tampa, FL
- Princess Diana: at home getting ready for a day of biking the following day
- Columbine shootings: just getting home from school
- War in Kosvo: helping my sister move into dorm room at ODU
- 9/11: in my dorm room, just crawling out of bed to get ready for class
- Beltway Sniper attacks (Malvo and Muhammed): in Blacksburg and Washington DC area, between school and home
- London bombings last summer: in Venice/Lido, Italy

Answer 9

Hurricane Katrina Tsunami the hit Philipene islands. Afganistan/Iraq War. Space Shuttle blowing up. Snipers on route 95. this is depressing.............

Answer 10

what about Selena, that was pretty big, and 2pac, and Biggy smalls?those were definning moments of our generation, like Marilyn Monroe, and Ritchie Valens of our parents and grandparents generation.Mind you I only really remember where I was durring 9/11, But I do remember the other things, and that they were really big, they made the world stop and take notice.