What events cause you to remember where you were when they happened (JFK, 9/11 etc..)

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I don’t remember where I was when that happened. But I do remember where I was when 9/11 happened - I was at home in Accrington watching TV. I remember switching over to a scene of one of New York’s most recognisable features with black smoke pouring out of it. None of the news anchors were talking, it was just this scene being shown.

Also, strangely considering I am largely indifferent to the Royal familiy and events surrounding it, I remember the day Diana died. I was in Laxey - Isle of Man (I was on holiday or ‘vacation’ as Americans call it. I hadn’t moved to the isle of man yet)

What events have caused your memory of where you were/what you were doing to be more vivid and easy to recall than they might otherwise be? Personal events don’t count.

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Both shuttle tragedies.
9/11.
Columbine.
The first gulf war for some reason.

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OJ verdict
Reagan assassination attempt
Release of Ken Starr’s Clinton/Lewinsky investigation
Oakland earthquake of 1989
Death of Elvis
Nixon resignation
Evacuation of Saigon

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In more or less chronological order.

Nixon resignation.
Reagan shooting.
The Challenger explosion.
Death of Len Bias.
Magic Johnson’s ‘I have AIDS’ press conference.
9/11.

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s death on the news

JFK’s assassination

Blackout of 1965

Bush Srs. Iraq attack

OJ verdict

Payne Stewart’s death

WTC attack

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I remember 9/11 very specifically because I had just started rehearsals for a show I was in. Our first real rehearsal was on 9/10.

I remember Challenger because I was at work and we had a TV in the break room.

I remember the OJ verdict because everyone in the office was gathered around a TV.

I don’t remember where I was when John Lennon was shot, but probably in my dorm room. My roommate told me.

I was in my mother’s lap in the neighbor’s back yard when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

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The 1987 FA Cup Final - I was on a Cub Scouts trip to Pleasurewood Hills American Theme Park (between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft on the English coast). Someone said that Gary Mabbutt had scored an own goal, and I remember thinking that Gary Maggot was a rubbish name for a footballer.

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Another I remember…

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In [somewhat] chronological order:

[ul]
[li]The Reagan assassination attempt (getting off the bus from my district’s gifted program and back to regular class; there was a grisly murder here in town at about the same time, and it took place a few blocks from where the gifted program was).[/li][li]The Challenger Disaster (coming back from lunch sophomore year of high school).[/li][li]The First Gulf War (sitting in a common area in the apartment I lived in).[/li][li]OJ Simpson’s Slow Speed Chase (at work, at the Holiday Inn in Joplin, MO).[/li][li]Columbine (at home at my apartment; I was either unemployed or off work that day, I can’t remember).[/li][li]September 11th (on the way to work).[/li][/ul]

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I was waiting in the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital near midnight on December 8, 1980.

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Let’s see:

Reagan getting shot: wlaking home from school, ran into my mom as she was outside telling a neighbor.

Challenger: in Mr. Sandersons 10th grade science class.

OJ: at work in a grocery store. Went to the break room to see the verdict.

9/11: sitting across the desk from a coworker going over some upcoming meetings when my boss comes by to tell us a plane hit the WTC. Then standing in my big boss’s office and seeing the second plane.