a) JFK was shot
Not born
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
not quite 5 and really don't remember it
c) John Lennon was shot
It was the day before my 16th birthday... and remember it vividly - blew off school the next day to take the train into nyc..
d) the Berlin Wall fell
i remember seeing it on the news but i really dont have a clear memory of it
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
sitting in a hotel room in sydney australia desperately, but unsuccessfully trying to get an international line... having just arrived that day... (24 hours prior I was on the flight that went down in pennsylvania - and had it not been for a customer insisting i be there a day early - i should have been on that flight)
f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured?
I was on the 82nd floor of that building and lost a perfectly good pair of shoes hiking down the stairs... went to the bar across the street for many many hours afterwards
g) the Gulf War started?
Somewhere in nyc
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured?
In my car, at the interection of routes 23 and 46 in nj - trying to merge... when the radio broke in with the announcement.. .and the very next song that was played was broken wings by mister mister/
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured?
dont recall
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