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1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (22/11/1963)
Not born.

2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (18/5/1980)
Ditto.

3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (28/1/1986)
I was three. I don't remember.

4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (7/10/1989)
Don't remember.

5. When the Berlin Wall fell (7/11/1989)
I remember sitting on the floor in the sitting room watching the news reports and getting sat on becasue everyone wanted a good view.

6. When the Gulf War began (16/1/1991)
I was in my bedroom when I heard the radio news report.

7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (17/6/1994)
No clue.

8. When the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed (19/4/1995)
I don't actually remember. I remember wondering why Oklahoma City would be a target like that...

9. When Princess Di was killed (31/8/1997)
I was standing in our pew in church, two seats down from the window. It was the first prayer and Rev. McCollum prayed for 'the Royal family in this time of grief'.

10. When Bush was first announced President (7/11/2000)
Well, it was a long-drawn-out process...

11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (28/2/2001)
Er, what?

12. When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (11/9/2001)
I was buying boots to go to university at the end of the month. The news reports were pretty garbled (it was early afternoon for us), and the first we heard was abouth the plane crashing in PA. We were worried becasue we have friends there. The we got home, and all the TV channels were just looping the footage over and over.

13. When Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas. (1/2/2003)
I recovering from a New Year's party.

I can't believe John Lennon's death wasn't on the meme! Though I would have been not born for that one too.

I'm going to add a couple more:

14. Evidence of a link between BSE and vCJD discovered (20/3/1996)
I was sitting at the kitchen table doing my homework, and Da put on Farm Gate as usual. It was just like your whole world was shaken. I can remember how we just all went quiet. Even the little ones knew this was trouble. (And there was, the farming industry's in a huge slump)

15. Omagh bomb (15/8/1998)
We were on holiday in Louth, in a caravan. Someone had a little portable radio, and I remember standing barefoot in the grass listening to the news.



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[ladyaeryn.livejournal.com]

I remember wondering why Oklahoma City would be a target like that...

Which was probably the whole point: no one expected it. After that happened, I never complained about nothing interesting ever happening in OK again.