Just Curious?

Question

What is the 1st major world event that you remember? Where were you, what were you doing? I remember when Eric Rudolph, (was that his name?) bombed that abortion clinic. I remember my mom trying to explain it to me, I was really little. I remember when Princess Diana died. I'm just wondering, what are the things that made such a big impression on you that you have remembered all of your life?

Answer 1

I can remember our teacher leaving the room momentarily then returning to have us all line up, elementary school, to go out to the flag pole and they announced that our president, (Kennedy) had been assassinated. They played the Star Spangled Banner, then dropped the flag to half staff. Some teachers were crying and some kids started crying as we did the pledge of allegiance. School was then dismissed the rest of the day as buses began to arrive to take us all home. I remember the scenes all week on TV, we only got three stations at the time, nothing but news, but we didn't care, we didn't have to go to school, we could go outside and PLAY. YIPPEE!!

Answer 2

Other than a vague knowledge that there was a war going on which was used to explained why I could not have many of the things I wanted I didn't really understand the news. Then It was over because we had dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and it had created a giant fireball. I thought we had burned them all up so there were no more Japanese people in the world, and was very frightened because I thought someone might do it to the US. I had nightmares about being burned alive for a long time afterwards.

Answer 3

I remember the day John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. I was in high school and was in the hall changing classes when the annoucement was made. People were crying and some were happy. I remember the full television coverage of his funeral and seeing Jack Ruby come out and shoot Lee Harvey Oswald who had been arrested for shooting & killing the president. I remember how many people thought John Connelly, Govenor of Texas at the time, and Lyndon Johnson, Vice-President at the time, were behind the assasination. I remember Jacqueline Kennedy and her pink suit she wore that day and seeing Caroline and "John John" holding their mother's hand as the cassion rolled by. It was all very moving and very sad.

Answer 4

The major World event that remember is attack on America by Osama bin laden with the help of Taliban's by bombing the World Trade Center twin Towers. It was one of the most horrific thing to happen in my lifetime and which comes to my when asked about the major world events that i remember.

Answer 5

the only two things that i remeber are princess diana died in 97' in a car accident and i was at home sick with the flu when that happened. and the 9/11 attack i was getting ready for the day and watching an old rerun of er when i thought was a movie breaking in the tv show.

Answer 6

Princess Diana's Death in 1997, the impeachment of president clinton, and september 11, 2001.

Answer 7

I am a little older , so my reference is different. I was at the opening of the largest lift lock in the world, Wilson Dam on the Tenn River in 1961. I think it was that same yr that i went , with my father to my first political rally and saw/heard Judge George Wallace , who was running for Governor. It was the most exciting thing i ever saw, the people screaming , band playing , and his rhetoric kept the voters on their feet!

Answer 8

The most outstanding event I recall, was the assassination of president John F. Kennedy.
I was in the military (police) and was directing traffic in and out of the base.
A commissionaire called to me and said Kennedy was shot in Dallas.

As with most everyone else, I was glued to the radio and television for the next few days.
That was the most outstanding historical event that comes to mind for me.

Answer 9

I can as a very small boy remember the images of the moon landing on TV, but the most clear is the fireworks from the 1976 bi-centennial celebrations

Answer 10

I remember the World Trade Center falling down. I was only four years old. There was TV Coverage and everything. It was really awful. I was at home. I was doing nothing, except maybe playing with a truck.