Let’s see… I was born in 1962. You do the math but please don’t tell anyone how old I am. Snort! Just kidding. I don’t care.
I remember a lot of events, some vaguely and some very vividly. I had to look up the year of each thing I recalled because that’s my brain for ya. Anyway, here goes:
1968 – Robert F. Kennedy assassination
1969 – The first moonwalk! Some people still don’t believe this happened!
1969 – The Manson murders
1973 – Watergate, no understanding whatsoever at the time!
1978 – Jonestown, where Jim Jones led the mass suicide of hundreds of people
1979 – Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident
1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts
1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first female justice on the Supreme Court
1981 – The attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life
1984 – The AIDS virus finally identified
1985 – The Titanic wreckage was discovered
1986 – The Challenger explodes just after lift-off
1989 – Oil tanker Exxon Valdez accident
1989 – Earthquake in San Francisco
1991 – Soviet Union breaks up
1998 – Bill Clinton impeached
1999 – Columbine High School shooting
1999 – Prep for Y2K, people were freaking out!
2000 – The end of Napster
2001 – Terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, 9-11
Everything after this point is a blur. Haha.
2009 – Obama elected the first black US President
2017 – Trump elected, nothing will ever be the same!
2019 – Covid-19 Pandemic begins
So, there ya go! What events do you remember? I could remember more if I sat here for a few hours but I just don’t have that kind of time this morning.
Have a super day, friends!
Being Aunt Debbie 
HA! I remember everything starting with the Jonestown incident, I was nine and watching the news and they had aerial pictures of all the dead people on the ground and I had nightmares. I also remember the American Hostage’s taken in Iran in 1979 and how the talk of nuclear war scared the hell out of me. I vividly remember the Space Shuttle Challenger incident as well, I was a sophomore in high school sitting in my typing class when a teacher from across the hall (he was a science teacher and had a TV for his class to watch the launch) came into our classroom and told our teacher what had happened. We all crammed into the science lab to watch in silence and come of us cried and others were just in disbelief. I also remember the day John Lennon was shot.
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Damn! I forgot about John Lennon! Of course I remember that! I remember thinking, “Why would anyone want to shoot John Lennon?” That was in 1980, wasn’t it? Nuclear war scared the shit out of me, too! Still does!
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I made a list, too, and forgot a lot of these! Thanks for jogging my. memory
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You’re welcome! I forgot a few, too.
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I think the major event I remember are definitely the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chernobyl ( we did t leave the house fir a week) and 9/11
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Two more things I forgot about! Chernobyl scared the crap out of me! If it could happen there, it could happen here. 😱
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You are four years older than me but I too remember most of that from Watergate (mom had the news on all the time and sat and crocheted through it I remember – had no idea what it was about though until years later). I would add two deaths… Elvis and John Lennon
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Yes, Elvis and John Lennon’s deaths. I can’t believe I forgot those!
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