What’s the earliest major historical event you can remember happening?

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1. The eruption of Mt. St. Helen’s

2. Challenger explosion

3. The release of Van Halen I. My babysitters’ boyfriend made me think he was buying the greatest album ever made.

4. Geezer here, “One small step for man…”

5. Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan

6. OJ verdict, remember listening to it on the radio in my 3rd grade class.

7. SAS storming the Iranian embassy London in 1981

8. 9/11

9. Columbine shooting

10. Elvis, Groucho and Charlie Chaplin all dying in 1977

11. The 2000 election and how the two newspapers we got had different results in the headlines.

12. OKC bombing

13. Apollo 11 Moon landing.

14. Fall of the Berlin Wall.

    Not crystal clear or anything but I remember being at the kitchen table eating breakfast and my parents being transfixed by the morning news on the TV.

15. The assassination of JFK

16. Y2K, if that doesn’t count then 9/11

17. Release of the 52 hostages from iran after 444 days.

18. Vaguely remember Ronald Reagan’s election.

19. Probably Elvis dying.

20. Princess Diana’s death.

21. The Bhopal chemical disaster (1984) is probably the earliest one I can remember, would have been about 15 then.

22. The bombing of Hiroshima. It was on the radio news casts. I am almost 84 BTW. I was 7 years old and everyone was celebrating.

23. The assassination of JFK. I was just old enough to know that something really bad happened.

    Then Neil Armstrong stepping down onto the moon.

24. I remember how much they talked about the death of Lady Di on the (French) news without really knowing who she was or what her story was.

    I also remember mad cow disease being a hot topic in my family.

25. I remember JFK and Nixon debating on tv.

26. The moon landing.

    And it was fucking LIVE on tv, in black an white!