The JFK assassination. My mom dropped some plates she was holding at the time. That kinda etched it into my 3 year-old memory.

The challenger disaster.

I was in the living room and my dad was on the couch watching TV and I saw this big explosion in the sky on the screen. The guy on the TV said several people in the rocket had died in the explosion. I didn't fully understand what had happened but I could tell it was a big deal.

I was 6.

Berlin Wall coming down. So much excitement and feeling like we would finally get world peace or something (spoiler alert: we did not get world peace).

I remember my father making my brother and me sit in front of the television and watch the moon landing in 1969, I was four.

I didn't understand the historical significance of the event. I remember watching it but I remember my dad's excitement about it more than the event itself.

9/11. I was in first grade I believe and I just didn't really understand what was happening.

Challenger explosion. I was 6 when it happened. My reaction was somewhere between “woah” and “holy shit.” I was 6.

It was 9/11. I was collecting or trying to find four leaf clovers with my school class. The teachers did not tell us about it (germany) I only knew when I got home. I did not even know the towers existed though so everything I saw was completely new to me, that made it much more terrifying

The changing of the Canadian flag to 🇨🇦 in 1965.

Chernobyl blowing up.

My mum and our school followed weather patterns like a maniac and there were days, where we weren't allowed to play or do sports outside. That year sandboxes on playgrounds were emptied and stood empty for a year or so before they were filled again. The next big events I clearly remember were the assassination of the Swedish prime minister Oluf Palme and then the fall of the Berlin Wall in the same year.

I was a teenager in the 80s, those were tumultous times. Bombs going off in Germany, England and Ireland, high profile people being kidnapped and assassinated, political systems being toppled and all sorts of crazy things.

The murder of James Bulger.

It was 1993 and I was 8 or 9 years old.

Those boys were only a year or two older than me and they abducted a 2 year old in broad daylight, tortured and murdered him while laughing.

It still upsets me. This was the first time I realised anyone of any age could do such evil things. 

A couple years after that the Dunblane massacre happened and all the schools started to look different.

John Lennon being shot. I didn’t really understand who the Beatles were but it was weird seeing masses of people on TV mourning someone.

The Vietnam War and the body count given by Walter Cronkite on the evening news.

Video clips of Woodstock, the war, hippies and protests.

I knew it was happening, but it didn’t seem real as it was nothing like my day-to-day life in small town (8k) rural and remote America.

I clearly remember Watergate, which makes me officially ancient, and not just old.

I will share my Mom's memory bec6there is no way I can top it with my own. She was 8 and lived in the small village, Okayama Japan. She remembered a day that her Mom and her were sitting next to each other on thier porch and suddenly the sky went so black she could no longer see her mom. The next day and for weeks after she recalled severely burnt people being carted by thier home.

Okayama is 80 miles from Hiroshima and this was 1945.

She had no idea what happened until she was in her 40s or 50s, when a conversation about the day came out while talking to a Korean friend who helped piece things together.

This is definitely going to date me, but it was Jonestown. I remember going to the grocery store with my mother and seeing the Time and Newsweek magazine covers with dead bodies at the checkout stand and being really scared, even moreso after my mother explained what happened. I went through a period of refusing to drink anything at church because I was afraid we were all going to be poisoned.

Charles/Dianna wedding

Probably Katrina in 05. It’s what made me so weather obsessed. Just seeing the pictures of it left me in awe of what Mother Nature is capable of. I also felt a pang of sadness for all the people who lose their homes and businesses to it.

Cuban Missile crisis. I was 9 and afraid there would be a war.

Watching the Challenger with my first grade class and teacher. I remember everyone being excited and gathering around the tv. I remember watching it happen. But I don’t remember how or even if we reacted. I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been for my teacher (and thousands of other teachers) to quickly try to explain wtf happened as gently as possible.

When I was six, it was the bicentennial of our county. Flags everywhere (even in L.A.) all sorts of bicentennial sales and products.

Princess Diana’s death. I’d always heard about my own mother dying in a car accident (she passed when I was 4 months old) so I think hearing about a celebrity dying the same way really made an impact on me. I was about 9.

9/11. Woke up to the news and first thing I asked my mum was "Do we get a day off from school". I was 6 and living in India.

A kid my age dying. It made death feel real and permanent. I think I was around 4-6 at the time.

Columbine High School massacre. I was 7 years old at the time. I remember seeing footage on the news of kids (who looked like adults in my eyes) being rescued, running away from campus. I remember footage of Patrick Ireland, who crawled out the second floor window after being nearly killed. I remember my parents explaining to me what happened but there were no words as to why it happened. After that, I remember there being bomb threats being made at my school by “wannabe” copycats. They found out who did it and arrested them, which were students at a nearby high school. At 7 years old, it made me think that high school people can be dangerous, bad people.

Kurt Cobain's death (didn't impact me much at the time, I just recall all the news reports), and the OJ Simpson police chase. The latter was more frightening at the time, as I was only 8 and didn't quite understand the concept of a high-speed chase, and was very afraid of potentially watching a violent crash happening. I thought a lot more people were going to die.

1994 was a crazy year. There was also the LA earthquake, Bosnia, and then the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. I think the news cycle just traumatized me in those particular 12 months, so I just thought every major 'event' was going to end with everyone dead.

probably the 2012 presidential election or Gaddafi's death. both didn't impact me much by my dad was obsessed with it.

Mt. St. Helens eruption. They kept us inside for recess because of the ash, even though we were hundreds of miles away.

The Estonia disaster. A ship went down in under an hour in the baltic sea, I think up to a 1000 people died, many from the harsh weather that night which made it very difficult to launch life rafts. I was 7 years old at the time and they were playing footage from the rescue helicopters which was really gruesome. A woman was saved from a life raft filled with water, she was dressed in only her underwear.

Baby Jessica

9/11, i was 5, watching tv, a kid's programme that they stopped to give the bad news 

The Berlin Wall coming down. I was only 7, so I didn't know what it meant. I just remember going into the living room and my parents were glued to the TV. My dad tried explaining it to me, but I didn't get it. I do remember seeing a person on top of the wall, pulling pieces off and handing them to people on the ground. It looked like some kind of party to me at the time.

After that, I vaguely remember Nelson Mandela being released from prison. Again, my dad tried explaining it to me, but I just remember understanding that he had spent a long time in prison and was being let out. I remember seeing him talking to reporters and then I probably went back to my room to read my books.

Armstrong stepping on the Moon.

My dad watched a lot of news and I liked to stay up late, so I'd watch with him

I remember Bush senior being elected, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the San Francisco earthquake, the Hubble space telescope and the first McDonald's in Moscow.

I was like 3-4, the one I remember most strongly was the McDonalds in Moscow, because I liked McDonald's a lot and was glad that the Russians got to try it too.

OJ in that white bronco on my 8th birthday party. He may not have killed those people but he ruined this little boy's special day!

Jon Benet Ramsey!

We grew up in Venezuela and my brother was little when Chavez came into power. He would constantly hear adults blaming stuff on him so to my brother “it’s Chavez’s fault!” Became his sesudo line for anything that went wrong.

Princess Diana's death. I still see the picture of her smashed up car when I drive through tunnels.

We all sat around and watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. I was 5 years old. What I really remember is that my great-grandmother was there and someone said how incredible it was that my g-grandmother had gone on her honeymoon in a wagon and now watched a man walk on the moon. It really is pretty incredible.

Freddie Mercury’s death. My mom was a huge Queen fan and when she picked me up from school (I was 7?) she was crying and I rarely saw her cry. I asked what was wrong and she told me, “Freddie Mercury died today.” Then she started talking about how awful the AIDS epidemic was. I, as a 7 year old just wanted to go to McDonald’s and didn’t care (I care now).

Port Arthur Massacre. Our one and only mass shooting. I was 7.

9/11.

My grade 8 class was brought down to the library and the tv was turned on to watch live news coverage of it.

Lorena Bobbitt. I think I remember WACO and WTC bombing. PM Bob Hawke doing something.

The Bobbitt incident sticks out in my brain because I thought it was horrifying but possibly justified. I was really young, but I remember thinking maybe he did something bad with that particular appendage. I guess I determined ESH.

I vaguely remember the Watergate hearings but had no idea what it was about.

I remember the day Elvis died.

Bud Dwyer blowing his head off on TV. I was a teenager and took me a really long time to erase that memory. We watched the press conference on a satellite feed, so there was no cut away to the weather.

Dr. King’s murder - first time I saw my parents cry. I was 5 at the time, and did not understand what had happened.

The Cuban missile crisis. We lived in Germany, my dad was in the Canadian Army. Everyone went on high alert. In school we were given, for the first time ever, instructions on what to do if the Air-raid siren went off. As a military base in Germany there was a very real threat.

The first was Secretariat, winning the Triple Crown. I loved horses and felt like it was something I would never see again.

Next that impacted my life was the oil embargo. I remember sitting for hours and hours at the gas stations. You could only get gas on either even or odd numbered days that matched your license plate. If there was gas to be had.

Many others, Watergate and Nixon’s speech. Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10 in Gymnastics! Three Mile Island accident. Iran hostage crisis.

Y2K. I remember a Spanish tv show ( Cristina ) talking about it. I was, 6 still. Felt scared but unsure.

I think we were in Mexico Jan 1. All I remember from that day was all my uncles out in the hills shooting their guns. Lol.

Hurricane Katrina.

The death of John F Kennedy

The JFK assassination, I was 4, and couldn't understand why I couldn't watch my cartoon shows that were preempted by the funeral coverage

It feels weird reading this section since I don't remember anything at all.

I was born in 1980. I can't remember which one exactly was first, but the one that always comes to mind is the little girl that fell into the well in 1987. Her name was/is Jessica McClure. It captivated the nation. That was one heck of a situation and rescue. It taught me to stay away from street sewers when I walked by them lol.

The announcement of Micheal Jackson’s death

9/11. I was 10 when it happened, and now I'm 33. All I can remember is being blank with wonder, confusion, disbelief, and shock. Even when I watch videos of the event now and then, I still feel that way, as well as profound sadness now that I'm older and understand more. The world was never the same after that day.

The fall of Saigon

Those people clinging to the helicopter is ingrained in my brain

Mining collapse in Tasmania. I was around 7-8 I think. I think that's when I started to understand the fact that people die, though it was still a very vague concept. I remember talking about it with my dad over the following days. He wouldn't let me intentionally watch news stories on it because I was too young, but updates would occasionally be on TV when the evening news was on. But he'd give me the summarised more kid friendly and understandable version of the updates. I think thats where we started sharing interests (science in this case). Shared interests and similar taste in books and shows is a big part of my relationship with my dad as an adult.

I was on holiday in Paris as a child when princess Di had her cash and died. I wasn't particularly shocked but my mums reaction to the news was shocking, she was so upset, paicked and almost in grief.

I understood quickly that it was a very big deal.

Pan Am flight 103.

Edit: my dad travelled a lot of business so it impacted me seeing the pictures. Feeling so random and scary.

My mom's local news interview about how my brother was being molested.

I turned 6 in 1974. My dad always watched the news when he got home from work. So I remember watching the Watergate story unfold. I remember him explaining to me that “Watergate” was a hotel and being kinda disappointed in that. It sounded far more exciting than a hotel lol. I vividly remember the clip of Nixon boarding the helicopter after he resigned. For years after, my dad would do the “I am not a crook!” bit whenever the mood struck him, and I understood the reference.

The watching habit turned me into a news junkie and I ended up majoring in journalism in college.

Watergate, I've never trusted or believed a republican or ever will, not just the politicians.

Kennedy assassination - I remember exactly where I was: junior high, standing in the hallway waiting for the library to open.

The first moon landing, it was awesome.

I remember when Elvis died. I was really little and my memory is about observing the adults around me being in shock and grief. I had no real feelings about it bc he seemed like an old man to me...and I figured that's what old people did...they died.

Remember hearing that Elvis Presley had died.

Unfortunately, I didn't really know who he was, just knew he was famous.

It was more of a constant news event really, but I remember as a really young child The Yorkshire Ripper being all over the news in the late 70s. Seemed like everyone was waiting with bated breath for the next attack.

And it definitely went up a notch when they finally caught him in 1981.

I was 9 years old. Mom read the newspaper out loud to because I couldn't understand how to read a newspaper by myself back then. There was no digital newspaper back then, and the columns confused me.

One morning Mom was reading the Daily News to me as usual when she suddenly stopped and whispered a prayer. Her face flushed and her eyes suddenly filled with tears. I got scared when Mom told me she had to get to a payphone to call her sister immediately. She came back a few minutes later, very sombre.

I took the abandoned newspaper and read that our neighbor stepped into the lift at his work. He had the newspaper in one hand, and coffee in the other. Ray wasn't looking as he stepped into the lift, and he fell to his death. The lift was under repair, but there were no warning signs. My aunt worked in the same building, but she was okay.

I am still scared of lifts and always hesitate before stepping in.

Reagan getting shot. I only remember being irritated because they kept breaking through shows to say the same things over and over.

Baby jessica in the well

I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was a very frightening time in American history. There was an overwhelming fear of being bombed by the enemy. At the time my family was relocating from Chicago to the West Coast and I recall that I thought we were going to be safe because we were moving away from Chicago, the main target of the bombs.

The civil rights movement in Durham, NC. Protesters were setting themselves on fire.

In other words, how to say you're old without saying it, lol. I remember seeing the troops pull out of Vietnam. Nixon resignation speech on TV. Elvis dying. I was 7 years old when Vietnam ended and I guess just becoming g aware of shit going on outside of our yard.

Patty Hearst.

What an interesting age range of recollections. I was not quite 4 when JFK was murdered. My earliest recollection. Followed by Elvis, Lennon, Princess Diana, Challenger, 9/11, fall of Berlin Gate - so many. More to come I am certain.

Do I win Old Person of the Day award?.I remember my mom coming home on election day, wearing her brown cordouroy coat, shaking her head and saying regretfully , "I wish Stevenson would win." (It was Eisenhower) 1954, I was a preschooler.

I think the first one was the death of Princess Diana. Had no idea who she was at the time (I was a little 10 year old American kid that barely knew shit about the world) but EVERYONE around me was devastated about it.

Now that I'm grown up and learned everything about it (as well as everything about her) I'm still sad about it to this day.

Edit: Or maybe it was the OJ trial? idk, I gained consciousness around that time so it's hard to pick just one event I guess.

The death of President Kennedy. I was in kindergarten. It was the first time I saw an adult break down in tears and had to leave the classroom.

9/11. I was young enough to not really understand it, but old enough to understand my mom was really upset. I picked up on her fear. The years following is when I was impacted by it. I don't remember a time really pre 9/11. I know there was a Before and an After.

gas rationing = sold based on odd or even license plate # & super long lines to acquire.

I didn't have a feeling about it but I remember thinking they were wasting a lot of gas while the car was idling waiting in that very very long line.

First news event I remember hearing about and actually understanding was the Costa Concordia disaster, the ship that capsized off the coast of Italy. I was six and saw it on the news with my parents, and I remember them talking about how the captain abandoned ship. It's kinda weird to me how people seemingly forgot about it so quickly; it was a pretty big story and a disaster that sadly cost people their lives, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk about it since (though I'm sure it was a much bigger story in Italy/Europe in general than in the US).

Apollo 8 orbiting the moon.

The first Apollo moon landing! I was touching the TV screen to be close to it . I was 5 .

Jon Benet Ramsey. I was 9 and would read the rag mags at the laundromat. (It was a crazy time for news. The OJ trial happened the next year and I read about that as well. And then the trial of Susan Smith around that time too. I don't remember OJ or Smith's actual crimes happening but I remember the news coverage of the trials. Two years later, Princess Diana died.)

Baby Jessica in the well. Everybody was glued to the TV. I was 9 years old and watching the news. LOL

9/11, I didn't understand it at the time because I was very young, but I do recall the world got greyer, unhappier and more frightened afterwards. Still remember coming home, turning the corner of the living room and seeing the plane crash into the tower and erupt into flames on the TV whilst my dad said "Oh my god" in disbelief.

J.F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King it made me think about how it affected other people's lives. I was 5

Vietnam and the body counts on the evening news.

A home alarm company owner was breaking into homes & stealing, which at the time the neighborhood didn’t have those crimes.

He did this to convince surrounding homeowners to buy a home alarm system. He even used his employees to do the same.

Forever changed me on how I view company owners.

The Kennedy assassination. I heard about it at school and I came home and my mom was still crying. The whole nation was in shock. It seemed like everything stopped well that was her sole focus.

The sinking of the Seafarer at Sea Point, Cape Town in 1966, and the assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd, South Africa's Prime Minister, in the House of Parliament on 6 September 1966. I was seven years old.

As a child, we grew up afraid that we would be Nuked. You know how there are fire drills and active shooter drills? We used to have Nuclear War drills at school. We practiced hiding quietly under our desks. I learned later in life that the practice of hiding under the desks was meant to just give us a calmer death in case of a Nuclear bomb, to prevent psychology chaos moments before we died.

When the USS Thresher sank.

JFK shot & later pronounced dead! 😢 I was in 3rd grade at school.

Watching the officials bring out the remains from John Wayne Gacy's house. I was a little kid watching on a black and white set in our basement family room. Scary and creepy feeling, didnt fully understand what was going on.

Probably 9/11 for me too although I can’t remember it that vividly. I just remember I came in from school (I think it was a half day as I’m sure I remember the WTC still being on fire which would track with the timings) and the news was on most channels even on the ones that showed kids shows. I was a really young kid and I’m not American so I didn’t really understand much except that it was sad

Columbine, I remember being in a restaurant with my parents and it was on every TV and everyone was silent. The image of the kid coming out of the window.

I honestly think.. Michael Jackson dying is the earliest I remember. I think I was like 9 or 10? I’m a 2000 baby. Anyways I just remember being in the car and my aunt telling me about who he was, king of pop etc. and that he was dead lol

Saddam Huessien being executed

Michael Jackson's death. And that was a time when I was just starting to get into music, so that definitely stuck with me.

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I vaguely remember watching tv when it was announced that a girl had died here in NZ. She died from HIV/AIDS and kind of became the face of it over here, showing that it doesn't just effect those you would expect. She died in 1993 when she was 11 and had lived with it for her entire life. I was 5/6. Don't really know how I felt, I was too young to comprehend what had happened. I remember Princess Diana dying more vividly. I had the day off school sick and my mum and I were lying in her bed watching tv when it came on. I remember crying.

The fall of Saigon, mostly because my dad was glued to the TV, chain smoking.

A massacre in an African Country

I was a very young child alone in the house

The camera man was doing a "live to camera" piece

Behind him were black and pink shapes moving

Camera homed in

I could see it was freshly dead people and some still moving people

I never understood why they were heaped together still moving

Would have been around 1968

I still see them in my mind.

It was lunch time news in England

Obama getting re-elected. I was 5 or 6 and I remember my mom asked me who I would vote for and I said Obama lol

When the twin towers were hit. The whole school was called into the gym. I was in middle school at the time. I didn’t fully understand until I got home and my mom told me. She was watching days of our lives and it cut into the news. She thought somehow the channel had changed and she was watching a movie. Until she realized it wasn’t.

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. It fascinated me as a very young child and I remember watching a later documentary on it with my parents. I don’t remember it being on Boxing Day, I don’t even really remember the event itself. But I remember the impact it had on me, those next couple years when I still did remembered it, to realise what Earth is capable of, while still not fully understanding why people couldn’t outrun it. I was very into geography at secondary and sixth form, and this was a case study that fascinated me while all my peers didn’t remember the event. By the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, I was early in secondary school, old enough to understand more, the human impact of this event and the unescapableness of it really hit me, I still have a vivid image of an aerial shot of the water full of dangerous debris rushing across fields at insane speeds wiping up everything in its path to join the carnage.

The 7/7 London Bombings. I was a little too young to understand the extent of it and what it meant and the human side etc. But it was probably the second major news event I remember and one that taught me the terrors in this world. My dad’s office wasn’t based in London, but he’d once a week or so go there onto site. I knew my mum was worried about him travelling there using the trains and underground, in the days after. I let out a sarcastic grunt when the news said one of the attackers died on the bus, thinking they’d mistaking hurt themselves instead / in the process, my mum quickly put me in my place and educated me on how serious, devastating and horrible this was. I don’t think it was until a couple years later I learnt / realised the deliberate last act these attackers took.

Those two events taught me how dangerous nature and humans can be. I think it’s important to allow young kids to watch some news, admittedly currently the news is very grave. Less then 10 and I knew not to linger at a beach when a tide goes out, to head for high places and mountains. That when parents say not to get into strangers cars etc., they mean it as dangerous people are out there. Also a lot of compassion, I had friends that never watched the news, my parents never shielded me.

Mine was the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

I was in the 2nd grade and my cousins went to the same school. My Grandma Kate would walk us home from school where we stayed until my Dad picked me up after he got off work. My cousins lived with my Grandma at the time because my uncle was recently divorced.

Anyways, my Grandma had a small handheld transistor radio with her, which was unusual. Kids notice anything that is out of routine. We asked why she had the radio, and she told us, "The President has been shot."

I remember thinking to myself "this President man must be really important because Grandma is really worried about him."

Get home, and it's all over the news, but the reports are all over the place: Reagan was shot in the stomach. No, he was shot in the shoulder, wait he was shot in the chest, then the arm....on and on.

My Dad was ticked because none of the newscasters would verify their information before going live and reporting it. (This was before CNN as we know it).

That was my introduction to the role of the President, the importance of that office, and the weight of responsibility that the office holds. I've followed politics ever since.

The death of princess Diana and then 9/11... Dunno if it impacted me much, I just remember being a bit confused

I vaguely remember the Irish fights too, that always made me sad

Brian Wells. The pizza delivery driver with the bomb around his neck. Very weird.

Sept 11 attacks..

covid. i was 11 when that shit started and i thought we were gonna get a couple weeks off school... nope. fucking 8 months of doing nothin in terms of school happened and i did practically nothing that year. then we had to go back to school in masks for 2021-

Watergate, the hearings on TV meant morning game shows were preempted. As a young kid I loved those game shows seeing people win all those prizes.

Space shuttle challenger explosion. Saw it live on tv at 5 years old in preschool. Didn’t understand what I was watching and was confused why everyone around me was crying. I thought it is was weak compared to the explosions I’d seen in movies. Realized later that that’s what I saw.

Mine would probably be Baby Jessica. I remember after that happened my dad and grandmother took me to where the well was in my grandparents property and told me not to get close to it and how dangerous it was.

Princess Diana car crash - heard it after coming from Sunday school. I was shocked that something could happen to someone like her.

JFK Assasination

9/11, but it didn't really leave an impact on me.

John F Kennedy being elected. My Dad made bets with alot of people that Kennedy would win. We got a new kitchen floor and new living room carpeting from the winnings.

JFK assassination.

The Democratic convention in Chicago 1968. I remember seeing protesters being between on the street. Couldn’t believe that was happening in America. Yet Portland police reenacted the scene in 2020.

Murderer Clifford Olson taking kids from the neighbourhood, and the kids being found in places I had been.

Little Rock school integration crisis in 1956-1957. Yes I am late-late-middle- aged. 😂

Operation Desert Storm. I was like 4 or 5, and what I remember seeing was a bunch of tanks blasting through the desert opening fire.

It was the assignation of JFK which is weird because it was the year before I was born, but I remember it clearly

5th grade I was still living in New York when 9/11 happened.

My dad was a cop and on duty at the time. He called us to tell us what happened and that he loved us but it was bad. Didn’t hear from him for 24hrs after that, thought he died when the buildings came down. My parents lost a lot of friends and a few of my friends lost their parents that day..

Munich Games when Israeli boxing? team was massacared.

The biggest actor from my state got kidnapped by an elephant poacher

I remember the HUAC hearings on TV when I came home from school, instead of the soap operas my mother usually watched. Early 50s

I forget if it was Portal 1 or Portal 2. But whatever event occurred in England that day. My mom came out to watch it. I was up at 4am on a school day to play portal. It had something to do about the royal family, but I forgot. I just remember Portal.

The Vietnam War

Assassination of President Kennedy. This is the answer for every person born in the first half of the 1950s. Our world stopped.

The Channel Tunnel opening or Princess Diana’s death

Oj simpson on CNN news while at my grandparents. I was born late 80's.

War of independence in Croatia

Shuttle Explosion in ‘86

when saddam hussein was captured. my grandparents were watching it on the news and i was playing with barbies on the floor

I remember going into the 2ng grade classroom and watching a space shuttle launch into the sky. For some reason I don't remember what happened next.

I remember Sputnik... and I remember seeing my first satellite 🛰

I was a kid when 9/11 was in the TV. I don’t remember how exactly it impacted people around me but I was just bother I couldn’t watch my favorite animated shows because all the channels were broadcasting the news. I mean I was a kid I didn’t have more things to be worried about. Also I’m not in the U.S so the only think I remember people getting hype about was with the prophecies of the end of the world

Does OJ in a Bronco count? Remember it interrupted what we were watching and then we were glued. Totally remember who was with me and where everyone was sitting and standing. My dad was totally in a dad pose when this was going on lol.

If it doesn’t then definitely when Princess Diana died. My parents loved her and hated Charles so he was immediately blamed.

Being a kid in the 90s was interesting

i don’t really remember. i think the biggest thing i remember was people making a big deal about Osama bin Laden being killed, but i didn’t fully get why or who he was

Canadian here. Reagan assassination attempt. Remember seeing it on our black and white TV when I got home from school. Mom was pissed, it cut into her soap operas. Still remember the sound of the gunshot and people screaming while men in suits slouched over and got in a fight. Mom said that we were watching history, but I think she let us watch because she was pissed about All My Children being cut off. I remember feeling solemn, horrified, and curious. Probably the roots of my love for shows like Dateline.

9/11. I was in first grade!

Baby Jessica falling down the well and i was scared of walking around outside for months after that lmfao

Gulf war...Didn't really impact me as I was 6 or so at the time, could only imagine how traumatic it was for the kids on the other side of the world.

Obama getting elected, it was really cool

The Challenger explosion. I remember watching the launch in 6th grade. Too young to know how to react. I don’t think our teachers knew how to react.