I remember Hurricane Gloria - my dad picked me up from my mom's house and we were driving through flooded streets to get to his apartment. I was 4 at the time.
I remember when Reagan was a lame duck and couldn't run anymore. I was devastated. He was THE PRESIDENT, now some other dude gets to be President? Not cool. Also, I was sad that they called him a lame duck. Such a good little conservative.
If you consider Hurricane Gloria historical, I remember that (1985). The first newsworthy event I remember was the Challenger; it was a snow day so I was home from kindergarten.
Post by sarapocalypse on Mar 6, 2014 20:52:46 GMT -5
I remember seeing stuff on TV about the Oklahoma City bombing. I think I was in 1st grade. I have memories of my dad being deployed during the Gulf war but was definitely too young to know anything about it at the time.
Also, my grandparents had an awesome globe that must have been made in 1960, because it had the UAR on it, but it also had Yugoslavia, the USSR, Czechoslovakia, French Indochina, etc and it was really fun when I was a kid to be able to go through and look at the countries that were no longer what they once were.
That is cool. We bought DD a globe for the year she was born so she can see what the world was like at that time.
I definitely remember the Challenger.
I also remember Chernobyl.
I think 88 was really the first Olympics that I remember.
When I was 3ish I absolutely loved Jimmy Carter because all the political cartoons drew him with a huge grin all the time. My dad read me the funny papers every Sunday and I remember getting excited if I saw a picture of him. I also remember a Newsweek cover talking about a new disease, AIDS, and being kind of scared that I might get it. I was born in 1976.
challenger (I'm 36). I remember we all went into the library to watch it on tv (it was a roll cart) and then it just exploded and the whole school was watching.