I remember the hostages being freed from Iran. I was in elementary school and we ran aroud the playground yelling "they're free, they're free". I was 8 so I had no real concept of what we were happy about, just that these people were free and we were happy. This was 1981.
I remember this as well. Not a historic event but I remember going with my parents to vote in the 70s where they had those machines with the curtains and the levers you pull to cast your vote..
LOL, I was still using those machines when I lived in NY, 5 years ago. It wasn't until I moved to SC that I saw an electronic voting machine.
Post by jerseyjaybird on Mar 6, 2014 12:21:19 GMT -5
If I think about it hard enough, I have vague memories of the 1984 Olympics (though more of Mary Lou Retton's Wheaties box!) and the 1984 election---I was 7.
I remember the Challenger explosion vividly and Pan Am 103 (Lockerbie) very, very well---a friend's father was among the passengers; he worked with my dad.
I think mine is the OKC bombing. I was born in 1985.
This is my answer as well, except I was born in 1986. Seems weird that I don't remember any events from before I was 9, but maybe it's just that nothing exciting happened in the first half of the 90's.
Tying yellow ribbons on the trees outside school during the Gulf War.
The earliest Olympics I remember actually watching is the 1992 Barcelona/1994 Lillehammer.
I was sheltered from a lot of TV and current events for a lot of my childhood, so even if I were to remember Challenger and the Lockerbie bombing and stuff I probably wouldn't have been allowed to watch it anyway.
Me too. I also remember the 1988 GHWB/Dukaikis presidential election.
I think mine is the OKC bombing. I was born in 1985.
This is my answer as well, except I was born in 1986. Seems weird that I don't remember any events from before I was 9, but maybe it's just that nothing exciting happened in the first half of the 90's.
I know, right? I keep thinking there is something obvious that I am missing.
This is my answer as well, except I was born in 1986. Seems weird that I don't remember any events from before I was 9, but maybe it's just that nothing exciting happened in the first half of the 90's.
I know, right? I keep thinking there is something obvious that I am missing.
Out of curiosity I looked through a Wiki article on the 1990's. There really wasn't much happening from 1990 to 1995. I do remember the Quebec referendum that happened in 1995, but that was a few months after the OKC bombings.
I remember waking up at 5am to watch news coverage of the gulf war when I was in preschool. My classmate's Dad was over there and I wanted to make sure he was ok. My parents would turn it off when they woke up and came down to see what I was watching.
I also vividly remember the Oklahoma City bombing and having a lemonade stand to raise money. And the Kerrifan/Harding scandal and 94 Olympics. I loved the figure skating.
Post by phunluvin82 on Mar 6, 2014 12:55:07 GMT -5
Elder Bush vs. Dukakis class mock election I guess. I vaguely remember Berlin wall coming down, but not really understanding any of it. I just remember seeing news coverage of people celebrating. I think I thought it was some kind of big party or something, lol.
The influx of Vietnamese refugees after the war, in the late 1970s. I was very young (born in 1975). I remember because it affected me personally.
This and Challenger. I'm 39 and we were watching it live in 5th grade. I don't remember it per se. But the Baby Airlift plane that crashed is the earliest that affected me and I've always known about it since it was the one I wasn't on.
I remember seeing news of Reagan's "landslide" win over Carter in '80 on the tiny old TV in our den - the kind that had only 10 or 12 channels and a knob you had to turn manually. I was the only kid, so my job was always to change the channel
Post by Velvetshady on Mar 6, 2014 12:59:55 GMT -5
I remember the Iran Hostage Crisis going on, but I don't have a specific memory of hearing about the actual release. The first specific memory I have is of the assassination of Sadat. We lived in the Middle East during that time. (born 1973)
The 1984 presidential election. We had a straw poll at school, and I was the only kid to vote for Mondale over Reagan, a choice I made solely because his running mate was female. I was such a budding feminist . I also remember the Challenger. I was born in 1977.
I was born in December 1983. I do not recall the Challenger explosion (I was barely two years old) but strangely specifically remember bits of going to Expo '86 in Vancouver, B.C., even though that was just a few months later. But Expo '86 probably doesn't qualify as an historic event to most.
So I guess I'd say the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. I definitely remember that. And then a few years later, when Desert Storm was going on, I remember wondering why this storm was such a big deal... because I thought it was literally a desert storm... like a bad sand storm.
I remember JFK's funeral on television. I remember Robert Kennedy's and MLK's assassinations
Thank you @cse1960. I was feeling old at remembering the Apollo program and sitting as a family around the television to watch them launch. What I recall of the assassinations is more fuzzy, along the lines of "did I really recall or is it just because it's so historic and been re-enacted or relived so often?" The rocket launches, only a year later, are vivid.
As an aside, Reagan was shot on my birthday; I was in biology class and we spent the rest of the class watching the news. The Challenger exploded while XH and I were moving from his old base to his new assignment. We spent the night at his grandma's house; I was in the guest room changing DD2 when he called me in to watch. There are certain events you just know where you were when it happened.