9-11 coverage and the second plane live on TV in elementary school
Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
9/11. I was in school and my teacher wheeled the TV cart in. She was an absolute wreck doing so because her husband left that morning for an interview in tower 1. Due to the phone traffic being so busy she couldnt reach him. Luckily he was running late because of traffic and had to drive far enough away before he could call her.
The husband’s delay in calling in might also have been caused by Verizon’s telephone network being temporarily overloaded. I remember trying to call my family that morning and only getting a message saying “all circuits are busy now”.
911
The destruction of the Berlin wall, and uniting of west- and east Germany.
the “wir sind das volk” chants still sending chills down my spine. what a great moment for humanity.
I actually remember seeing Haley’s Comet. I want to live long enough to blah blah blah, but really I just wanna see that stupid thing again before I go. Feels like a decent bookend, ya know?
Although I lived through others I think I was to young to remember them or caring. So for me it was the OJ trial since they legit announced it overhead at our school which was weird thinking back on it. After that would be 911.
Challenger exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I’m sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. And after that, Pan Am 103 exploding. The 80s were a wild time.
Challenger is my first, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union
1986 was wild. Chernobyl, Challenger, Olaf Palme assassination and Jakomäki Bank Robbery/Mikkeli hostage crisis that ended up in big car explosion seen on tv.
The beating of Rodney King. I was very young, maybe 6, and didn’t understand why they had to beat that man.
Now I do understand. And it’s pretty shitty.
When the Berlin Wall came down
Middle East wars (which doesn’t really pin down a timeframe)
ERA (which does)
I think mine is the JonBenet Ramsey case. I lived in Colorado and I just remember seeing her picture on the news over and over and over. It’s a very very early memory so I don’t remember much else at all.
I vaguely remember Princess Diana’s death, I think. I remember when Michael Jordan retired - but honestly that might be more to do with Space Jam than anything else.
And then 911 is the next big one.
The Challenger explosion
Probably the Iranian Revolution.
Early 1970s, I was around 6yo, hearing a discussion on the news about black civil rights and understanding it was logical and right.
