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Sun May-03-09 08:11 PM
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| 58. That was a VERY BIG DEAL. nt |
| -MEMORY TIME!!! What is the earliest major national or international event that you remember |
Odin2005 |
May-03-09 05:03 PM |
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JFK's funeral. |
Gidney N Cloyd |
May-03-09 05:06 PM |
#1 |
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+1 |
pokerfan |
May-03-09 05:30 PM |
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I wasn't much older. |
Gidney N Cloyd |
May-03-09 07:58 PM |
#55 |
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Sputnik |
Ptah |
May-03-09 05:08 PM |
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Sputnik for me, too. I remember my dad taking my brother and I |
Vinca |
May-03-09 05:09 PM |
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Sputnik here, too. |
Kool Kitty |
May-04-09 12:17 AM |
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Yes, we went out to look for it going overhead |
csziggy |
May-04-09 12:54 AM |
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The Hostages in Iran |
TZ |
May-03-09 05:09 PM |
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Same here. n/t |
RiffRandell |
May-03-09 05:37 PM |
#21 |
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1980 Olympics, USA hockey team's run for the gold medal. |
flvegan |
May-03-09 05:10 PM |
#5 |
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OMG, my dad talks about that as if it was yesterday! |
Odin2005 |
May-03-09 05:28 PM |
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That was a VERY BIG DEAL. nt |
Captain Hilts |
May-03-09 08:11 PM |
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I remember begging my mom to let me skip church so I could watch it |
LynneSin |
May-04-09 12:08 PM |
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I recall grown-ups TALkING ABOUT |
Lydia Leftcoast |
May-03-09 05:11 PM |
#6 |
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Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. |
femmocrat |
May-03-09 05:14 PM |
#7 |
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The first or second? |
whistler162 |
May-03-09 05:15 PM |
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HA. HA. |
femmocrat |
May-03-09 05:16 PM |
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LOL!!! |
Odin2005 |
May-03-09 05:27 PM |
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Yeah...me too... |
Tikki |
May-03-09 05:20 PM |
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I think that was when we got our first TV. |
femmocrat |
May-03-09 05:49 PM |
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1953? I think so. nt |
Captain Hilts |
May-03-09 08:42 PM |
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Apollo-Soyuz Mission ... |
RoyGBiv |
May-03-09 05:15 PM |
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The removal of bodies from under John Wayne Gacy's house. |
GOPisEvil |
May-03-09 05:18 PM |
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Nixon's resignation. |
BeachBaby |
May-03-09 05:19 PM |
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You remember that? |
TZ |
May-03-09 05:34 PM |
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I remember that as well... i was almost 8. |
Rhythm |
May-03-09 07:02 PM |
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Yeah but BB was four like me |
TZ |
May-03-09 07:21 PM |
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I remember that I was sitting on the living room floor.... |
BeachBaby |
May-03-09 09:13 PM |
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The live broadcast assasination of Lee Harvey Oswald. |
RagAss |
May-03-09 05:20 PM |
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I saw it, too. |
kwassa |
May-03-09 08:29 PM |
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Yes...these were my first memories in life...it's no wonder I'm a cynic ! |
RagAss |
May-03-09 10:58 PM |
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Ike vs. Adlai Stevenson. It was then I learned we were Democrats! (Age 7.) |
WinkyDink |
May-03-09 05:32 PM |
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Me too...hearing the convention on the radio.. |
dixiegrrrrl |
May-03-09 07:16 PM |
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Ditto! |
elleng |
May-03-09 07:34 PM |
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Blizzard of '78 and the pope's visit to Boston |
sniffa |
May-03-09 05:34 PM |
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Assassination of JFK. I was 5. nt |
Critters2 |
May-03-09 05:37 PM |
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Me too. My mom was in an afternoon bowling league, |
bluesbassman |
May-03-09 06:07 PM |
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My mom was ironing and watching her stories. It was raining cats and dogs, |
Critters2 |
May-03-09 06:18 PM |
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Me too. I was in kindergarten, we got sent home from school and |
alsame |
May-03-09 06:22 PM |
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Same here. Sent home from school and asked to play outside. |
SalmonChantedEvening |
May-03-09 06:28 PM |
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Same here |
av8rdave |
May-03-09 08:43 PM |
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The Cuban Missle Crisis... |
FarLeftRage |
May-03-09 05:44 PM |
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The fall of the Berlin Wall. |
Alexander |
May-03-09 05:45 PM |
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Watergate. |
rucky |
May-03-09 06:09 PM |
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The formation of Abell 1835 IR1916 |
Rabrrrrrr |
May-03-09 06:14 PM |
#28 |
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the challenger |
fizzgig |
May-03-09 06:14 PM |
#29 |
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I was at home from school that day with a cold |
no name no slogan |
May-03-09 06:34 PM |
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I was also a sophomore who was home with the flu that day, |
Lady Effingbroke |
May-03-09 10:29 PM |
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Same here. Challenger. |
Lyric |
May-03-09 11:03 PM |
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Challenger here. |
tekisui |
May-04-09 01:09 PM |
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Watergate. |
Left Is Write |
May-03-09 06:18 PM |
#31 |
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The occupation troops pulling out of Vienna-1955 |
hobbit709 |
May-03-09 06:21 PM |
#32 |
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Walter Cronkite talking about Vietnam on the evening news |
no name no slogan |
May-03-09 06:25 PM |
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JFK's assassination |
Vidar |
May-03-09 06:28 PM |
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The 1968 riots |
MrScorpio |
May-03-09 06:33 PM |
#37 |
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Challenger exploding |
Pierre.Suave |
May-03-09 06:35 PM |
#39 |
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Same here.... |
moriah |
May-03-09 07:16 PM |
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And how old were you then? |
Left Is Write |
May-03-09 07:41 PM |
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I was in my senior year of high school. |
GOPisEvil |
May-03-09 10:34 PM |
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Me too. |
wickerwoman |
May-03-09 10:50 PM |
#80 |
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start of Gulf War I |
charlie and algernon |
May-03-09 06:36 PM |
#40 |
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Same here |
Hayabusa |
May-04-09 11:32 AM |
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The Apollo 11 moon landing |
Rhythm |
May-03-09 06:58 PM |
#41 |
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I was 3 and my parents woke me in the middle of the night. |
targetpractice |
May-04-09 12:24 AM |
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The well publicized death of Richard III. Things were a bit chaotic. |
madinmaryland |
May-03-09 07:20 PM |
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Must have been absent that day! |
elleng |
May-03-09 09:08 PM |
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Shaking Ford's hand shortly after he became Prez |
Inchworm |
May-03-09 07:22 PM |
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Army-McCarthy hearings |
annabanana |
May-03-09 07:26 PM |
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I remember watching some, on EARLY Brooklyn neighborhood tv! |
elleng |
May-03-09 07:32 PM |
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I have a very hazy memory of watching the moon landing. I was 3. nt |
Arugula Latte |
May-03-09 07:27 PM |
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I was 3 then too - |
Left Is Write |
May-03-09 07:42 PM |
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The 1960 election |
LiberalEsto |
May-03-09 07:29 PM |
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Watergate, late stages of Vietnam War |
SoxFan |
May-03-09 08:04 PM |
#56 |
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Falklands War I remember best. |
mwooldri |
May-03-09 08:08 PM |
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JFK's Assassination and funeral. I was 4. MLK's assassination. And RFK's. Then Moon landing. nt |
Captain Hilts |
May-03-09 08:11 PM |
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I don't remember JFK's assassination and I was six |
Skittles |
May-03-09 08:23 PM |
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It was already an extraordinary day for me... |
Captain Hilts |
May-03-09 08:41 PM |
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The Big Bang. |
jeff30997 |
May-03-09 08:26 PM |
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LOL ! |
RagAss |
May-03-09 10:59 PM |
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I would say the Challenger disaster |
XemaSab |
May-03-09 08:30 PM |
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MLK's Assassination |
Dinger |
May-03-09 08:30 PM |
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Bobby Kennedy's asassination |
enigmatic |
May-03-09 08:32 PM |
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Nixon resigning |
dana_b |
May-03-09 08:35 PM |
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Watergate I think. But my parents had the radio on all the time and I went back and read |
applegrove |
May-03-09 09:20 PM |
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Russian tanks rolling into Hungary in 1956. |
Ikonoklast |
May-03-09 09:23 PM |
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Same here, I was going to say |
doc03 |
May-03-09 09:44 PM |
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Watergate and Nixon's resignation. |
Lady Effingbroke |
May-03-09 10:01 PM |
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Kent State riot on TV |
carlyhippy |
May-03-09 10:18 PM |
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The Gulf War |
realisticphish |
May-03-09 10:33 PM |
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The Russian invasion of Hungary |
FloridaJudy |
May-03-09 10:51 PM |
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My firs erection.n/t |
jeff30997 |
May-03-09 10:55 PM |
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The 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. |
Drunken Irishman |
May-03-09 11:02 PM |
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Big Bang |
GoddessOfGuinness |
May-03-09 11:10 PM |
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Jonestown massacre. |
Withywindle |
May-04-09 12:11 AM |
#88 |
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Gemini VIII mission |
MilesColtrane |
May-04-09 12:41 AM |
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Nixon on TV - he was Eisenhower's VP. I never liked the guy. |
old mark |
May-04-09 12:50 AM |
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Reagan being shot, Di-Charles wedding, or Space Shuttle launch |
Muttocracy |
May-04-09 12:55 AM |
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Sputnik in October 1957. |
Doc_Technical |
May-04-09 11:07 AM |
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Kennedy's Inauguration 1961 |
bikebloke |
May-04-09 11:15 AM |
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Apollo 7 splashdown. |
Lars39 |
May-04-09 11:38 AM |
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When Aldo Moro was kidnapped and killed... |
WilmywoodNCparalegal |
May-04-09 11:53 AM |
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John Lennon's assassination, 1980. I was 4. |
SteppingRazor |
May-04-09 12:03 PM |
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Three Mile Island - only because I lived thru it |
LynneSin |
May-04-09 12:10 PM |
#102 |
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The 1984 election - first grade |
PVnRT |
May-04-09 12:52 PM |
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Berlin Wall falling, I was 4. |
bamacrat |
May-04-09 01:10 PM |
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1960 election. I remember hearing grownups talk about Sputnnik, though. nt |
raccoon |
May-04-09 01:11 PM |
#106 |
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Same here... |
KansDem |
May-04-09 01:20 PM |
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I remember LIFE magazine with pictures of the Nixons after the election. nt |
raccoon |
May-04-09 01:24 PM |
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Watergate |
NewJeffCT |
May-04-09 01:15 PM |
#107 |
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shooting of indira gandhi |
La Lioness Priyanka |
May-04-09 01:20 PM |
#108 |
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