Very vaguely remember HW's inauguration.

But I'm going with the Berlin Wall. That time it came down.

2/1/2017 12:31:32 AM

i member that chinese dude standing in front of a tank like a boss

2/1/2017 6:06:02 AM

The first one I can think of would be OJ's trial and him being found not guilty. I remember watching the TV and seeing a black lady almost collapse because she was so happy.

edit: after reading through, I also remember the OK City bombing...I didn't realize that was around the same time. I guess '95 was the year I actually paid attention to news, that would put me at around the age of 8, in the third grade, so seems about right.

[Edited on February 2, 2017 at 6:17 PM. Reason : ]

2/2/2017 6:15:18 PM

^Yeah, my 10th grade English teacher told us that the year before we had him he was walking down the hallway to the teachers lounge and heard a big cheer the day a verdict in the OJ case was expected to come. He said based on who was cheering he knew what the verdict was without even seeing the news.

2/3/2017 8:11:21 AM

Celebrating the Simpson verdict is probably the most fun I ever had in school.

2/3/2017 8:23:29 AM

The Bowling Green Massacre

2/3/2017 8:28:05 AM

Wow I was gonna say Panama war and Berlin Wall too. How old are ya downtown raleighbrown?

I was all geared up for world war 3 type adventure and then it only took us like a few hours to disable their communication system.

As a 7 year old it made us seem invincible kinda like when Pacman ate vitamins on my atari.

2/4/2017 12:19:03 AM

Quote :

"Celebrating the Simpson verdict is probably the most fun I ever had in school."

yeah i love it when millionaires kill jews and women and get away with it

2/4/2017 8:23:15 AM

Nelson mandela being freed from prison was a big one too in 1990

2/4/2017 10:15:58 AM

Okc bombing.

I remember not understanding how fertilizer could blow something up but was still ok to have in our basement.

2/4/2017 10:43:51 AM

Obviously your parents are terrorists

2/4/2017 11:55:41 AM

Watching the Challenger explode live.

2/5/2017 7:10:31 AM

Need
Another
Seven
Astronauts

2/5/2017 7:29:39 AM

Challenger and the Iran-Contra affair.

2/5/2017 8:27:47 AM

I remember seeing Saddam praying on his bathroom floor while the first Iraq war was going on.

2/5/2017 11:30:22 AM

I also remember seeing news stories about the US military doing air strikes on Libya. That would have been the next one I remember after the Challenger explosion.

2/5/2017 1:46:18 PM

I remember the Sandinistas or some group in Central America taking power cutting into programming one day I wasn't at school.

I have no memory of the Berlin Wall which surprises me. (Born October '82)

Does anyone remember the Soviet coup that resulted in Gorbachev's downfall? It happened on Christmas day but I've never talked to anyone that says anything about this as it was going on. This at the time would've been the biggest shift in the world order Post-World War II.

[Edited on February 6, 2017 at 3:38 PM. Reason : .]

2/6/2017 3:34:41 PM

People saying O.J. verdict makes me feel old. We watched the verdict in middle school.

2/6/2017 3:45:26 PM

I barely remember anything of hurricane hugo, but I remember sitting in the basement and wondering why and pretty much anything until I was around 6 or 7

My dad was really interested in the Gulf War, so I remember some stuff I think

The OJ Simpson trial stands out the most for me because my little brother was running around saying "OJ jinjin" and I earnestly asked my parents if OJ was in anyway related to Bart Simpson (btwI was way too old to be asking that) and I remember watching him drive away from the cops and wondering why he was going so slow if he was trying to get away from them.

2/6/2017 3:50:43 PM

Challenger explosion. I was in 2nd grade.

[Edited on February 6, 2017 at 4:22 PM. Reason : A]

2/6/2017 4:10:33 PM

^^^ See my post on the previous page for a list of all major events I remember from the 80's (including Gorbachev coming to power), plus a link to Wikipedia listing major events of the 80's. USSR was dissolved in 1991 so I have not mentioned it, but yes, I do remember it.

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To help people go down their earliest memory lanes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_history#1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_history#1990s

For ThePitts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_history#1970s

For TWWers' kids:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_history#2000s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_history#2010s

(not like most kids these days even know know what's going on outside their home/city)

2/6/2017 4:16:20 PM

Also, we lived about 30 miles away from Three Mile Island when it melted down, but I wasn't even 1 year old at the time. No side effects that I'm aware of, unless you consider having an abnormally large penis a side effect.

2/6/2017 4:23:08 PM

On to sports. I just read today marks 27 years since Douglas upset Tyson in Tokyo. Back then I wasn't into watching sports all of the time, but I do remember my dad telling me the next morning that Tyson got beat. My dad doesn't like watching combat sports, but even he paid attention to that news story. Mike Tyson was one of those people that even non-sports fans new about and paid attention to any news involving him.

And after a little research the next major sporting events I remember are the Giants beating the 49er's in the 1991 NFC Championship Game, the Bulls first NBA threepeat, and Duke beating Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA Elite 8.

2/11/2017 11:24:19 AM