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really interesting answer, and sorry for the :( ones.

England losing to Germany in the Euro 1996 final on penalties (I believe) :(

I thank God the awful historical moments came to an end that year when i was born.

 

I remember when we joined EU and NATO. Bush came to our country and people were thanking him, I dont know why. :shrug:

 

Also when our basketball team won the match against the invincible USA team in Athens Olymphic games.

9/11, I saw it on the news once, when i was very young...:(

Wow, I'm old!:laugh3: I have to say I remember seeing some of the lunar landings live (I was 3 ), and I do remember the news about Woodstock, but just barely. I remember Nixon's impeachment, and the end of the Vietnam war.. Tumultuous times, not all that different from this epoch here.

Yah I'm not the only one. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. My dad got me these cool Apollo paper models from the Gulf station, you know the old insert tab "A" into slot "B" things. :lol: Hurricane Camille caused flooding where I lived and the National Guard had to come evacuate us from our house and my stupid brother almost fell off the truck. :rolleyes: Earliest would have to be my sister making my mom drive around to store after store until she could find a copy of The Door's- Light My Fire.

I am young :D enough to have lived when President John F(itzgerald) Kennedy was murdered in Dallas in November 1963. I was 5½ years old and vaguely remember sitting in the living-room and the TV set was on. My parents were watching the news - I vaguely remember the picture of the car with the President being murdered / shot and his shocked wife Jacqueline ("Jackie") Kennedy sitting by his side in the car.

 

This event was indeed historical. I sometimes wonder what President Kennedy would have been remembered for if he had had the chance to finish his term.

 

Now he is one of the most famous (and popular, I think) presidents of the USA. But had that been the case if he had lived on? Of course, we will never know! But what if ...?

Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. 1986

Princess Diana's death...

When Chavez won the elections... 11 years ago... :( such a sad day

then 9/11 ...

It has to be Princess Diana's death as well. I was in kinder. Then I would always hear Elton John's Candle In The Wind (the Lady Di death version) on TV.

I remember the 2000 election, if that counts as a historical event...

And definitely 9/11.

Monica Lewinsky scandal

 

 

 

how sad, that is first thing i remember :P

I would have to say 9/11 as a lot of people have, i was in the third grade and i remeber i heard about it in "Mac Lab" my two teachers were talking about plains and i thought that my one teacher was booking a trip as they were around the computer watching something... i knew later what happened at lunch but i didn't really understand completely

for me it was either the Oklahoma City Bombings or TWA flight 800

I never heard about the Monica Lewinsky scandal because I was too sheltered. :dozey:

Monica Lewinsky scandal

 

 

 

how sad, that is first thing i remember :P

 

haha... bill clinton.... what a pimp

Remember Diana death but not much of it though as I was like 6 and a half. So definitely 9/11 for me. Teacher switching on the tv to show us a video, and there it was on the screen, though we were spared of images of the world trade centre with pictures from Washington. Only when I got back home did I switch on the tv and see the full horror of everything from New York, having learnt that both towers had collapsed.

honestly, probably 9/11 for me :\ i was in first grade, so i barely remember any of it :shame:

honestly, probably 9/11 for me :\ i was in first grade, so i barely remember any of it :shame:

 

You're so young! :cheesy:

I was almost 11 at the time.

:p

Heh... perhaps appropriately, the very first thing I can remember of the wider world is when the Berlin Wall came down. First there were all the pictures on tv of people tearing the wall apart. Then a few days later, a kid's game show I used to watch had a contest that had something to do with getting slimed by a jelly wall or something like that in honour of it.

 

Probably the next big thing after that was the whole Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo thing. It was inescapable- all over the news. And very scary in hindsight- I find it hard to believe now that I was old enough to have understood that case at that age. But I guess I did.

 

You're so young! :cheesy:

I was almost 11 at the time.

 

:uhoh:

 

 

I was 19. It was my first week living outside of the country for the first time. Kind of traumatic.

Time passages

 

Heh... perhaps appropriately, the very first thing I can remember of the wider world is when the Berlin Wall came down. First there were all the pictures on tv of people tearing the wall apart. Then a few days later, a kid's game show I used to watch had a contest that had something to do with getting slimed by a jelly wall or something like that in honour of it.

>>YAY!! 20th anniversary today - hard to believe it's been that long!! I was in college at the time, and we all celebrated with amazement, watching the world wake up from history. My cousin Lawrence was by sheer coincidence there at the time, and took some pieces of the wall home - he gave them as Christmas gifts, and was kind enough to give one to me - so here I have a piece of the wall, half-way around the globe and two decades later..:) (I still recall the drunk guy who walked on the wall in that famous footage - quite a night to remember!!). <<

 

Probably the next big thing after that was the whole Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo thing. It was inescapable- all over the news. And very scary in hindsight- I find it hard to believe now that I was old enough to have understood that case at that age. But I guess I did. I was 19. It was my first week living outside of the country for the first time. Kind of traumatic.

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That escapes my memory.. what was it all about?

 

My first historical memory was the lunar landings - it was unforgettable, and I was only 2 or 3 years old at the time... amazing to think we could have done such a feat!