Have You Witnessed A Major Historical Or Current Event?

[Cormac135]

A fairly broad question. Have you witnessed a major event of modern history?

I know some of you are old enough to remember the fall of Rome

For me it'd be Obama becoming the first black President of America.

Have any of you witnessed firsthand or on tv a major historical event ?

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

classfied

tinku

 

[Telstra]

* Two planes crashed on buildings on purpose, that was a major event.

 

[jbrown329]

Mount St. Helens going burp.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and aftermath. Ex was freaking out, his brother lived in San Bruno and their dad was visiting.
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.
The attempted assassination of Ronald Regan.
The fall of the Berlin wall.
The election of Barack Obama.
The resignation of Richard Nixon.
Walter Cronkite's last newscast and Dan Rather taking over the anchor desk.

 

[Natello4]

Probably the most interesting real witnesses would be the Fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. I was 4 years old and just remember seeing many buses and cars with sirens rushing in the streets of the third largest city in one of the Batic countries. My mother was on the way home from Moscow during the very uncertain period of time and father was very worried. However, everything went fine and we were watching news very oftenly when the family rejoined. Later, I've learned about the events at school and realised that there was much more going on in the capital city. That sounds pretty exciting when you think about it.

 

[Rickrock]

I didn't witness first hand anything important but was alive and affected by the news of several important events. I was stunned and saddened by the assassination of John F. Kennedy; I was alive when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, but was in the military at the time, away from home, and didn't realize the importance of this event; I was joyful when a Polack was made Pope John Paul II instead of another Italian; and I was jarred and had a array of emotions by the attack and collapsing of the World Trade Center buildings.

 

[gsdx]

Hurricane Hazel
The Kennedy assassinations
Charles Manson
Canada's new flag
Canada's Centennial
Moon landing
Vietnam
Disco and the death thereof
Challenger
Canada's first female prime minister
9/11
The election of Canada's youngest prime minister
Cormac becoming a JUB mod
(Whoops! Strike that last one.)

 

[nycguydowntown]

yeah sort of---9/11---it was truly a nightmare----and I hate bush and his asshole because I blame them in some way. It opened a Pandoras box that will go on for the rest of my life.

 

[jbrown329]

Probably the most interesting real witnesses would be the Fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. I was 4 years old and just remember seeing many buses and cars with sirens rushing in the streets of the third largest city in one of the Batic countries. My mother was on the way home from Moscow during the very uncertain period of time and father was very worried. However, everything went fine and we were watching news very oftenly when the family rejoined. Later, I've learned about the events at school and realised that there was much more going on in the capital city. That sounds pretty exciting when you think about it.

I forgot the collapse of the USSR. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

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yeah sort of---9/11---it was truly a nightmare----and I hate bush and his asshole because I blame them in some way. It opened a Pandoras box that will go on for the rest of my life.

If he only hadn't ignored Richard Clarke.

 

[gsdx]

^ I completely forgot The Wall, too.

 

[BillyT]

Landing on the Moon

 

[jbrown329]

Watching An Early Frost a 1985 made-for-television drama film and the first major film, made for television or feature films, to deal with the topic of AIDS, when it originally aired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Early_Frost

 

[peeonme]

None first hand.
I remember the day JFK was assassinated, along with that I remember the assassinations of RFK and MLK.
The riots of the '60's and the moon landing.
I watch Nixon announce his resignation on television.
I saw our first non-elected President take the oath of office.
I saw the USA withdraw from Vietnam.
Reagan being shot
The Challenger explode
The fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union
Clinton get impeached and his treasonous signing of NATA and other trade agreements
Bush steal the election
9/11
Bush and Cheney use that attack to lead America in to war against Iraq (which left room for ISIS)
The Global economy nearly go over the Cliff
Obama saving that economy
Obama starting health care reform with the ACA
Obama saving the US auto industry
Obama taking out Bin Ladin

The most significant of these to me is the moon landing.

The election of a black/white president was significant, but it should not have been.
Of course there are others, gay marriage and gays serving openly in the military can't be forgotten, again, under Obama's presidency.

 

[gsdx]

I remember the Eastern Seaboard Blackout, 1965:

 

[Rickrock]

I didn't witness first hand anything important but was alive and affected by the news of several important events. I was stunned and saddened by the assassination of John F. Kennedy; I was alive when Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, but was in the military at the time, away from home, and didn't realize the importance of this event; I was joyful when a Polack was made Pope John Paul II instead of another Italian; and I was jarred and had a array of emotions by the attack and collapsing of the World Trade Center buildings.

I thought of a few more. The launch of Sputnik, the landing on the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and not a specific event but the long term development and use of the computer.

 

[Kyanimal]

I was around for ALL of the things mentioned above.

I'd like to add The Cuban Missile Crisis.

We came really, Really, close to blowing up the planet!

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I could name quite a few but I feel like it would be more interesting if I pick the first one that really struck me as a kid and that was the Oklahoma City Bombing.

 

[gsdx]

I was around for ALL of the things mentioned above.

I'd like to add The Cuban Missile Crisis.

We came really, Really, close to blowing up the planet!

Don't I know it! We were right in the middle of it. I used to sit outside in my back yard at night and stare up at the sky just waiting to see the missiles flying overhead.

You don't live through something like that without it affecting you. Most people today have no idea how close we came.

 

[Willie Boy]

I saw Kennedy assassinated. I'm not at liberty to say whether there were other events.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Why do you say that? I think someone who actually wasn't "at liberty to say" wouldn't outright state that all the time.