Besides 9/11, what's a major historical event you lived through that you’ll never forget where you were when it happened?

[Coco Loco]

That was a scary three weeks living in the DMV

When you look at the case, how they did it and why they did it, it's terrifying. Had an entire metropolitan area shook

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Not really major, but the '03 blackout

 

[African_brehda]

Messi World Cup win

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Michael B. Jordan confronting that woman on the red carpet over 'corny' remark.

Spoiler

 

[richaveli83]

Magic Johnson announcing he had HIV and he was retiring
Waco in 1993
WTC bombing in 1993
OJ Simpson police chase in 1994
Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
OJ Simpson verdict in 1995
The Million Man March in 1995
2Pac getting killed in 1996
Columbine in 1999
Bill Clinton impeachment in 1999
The Presidential Election in 2000
Hurricane Katrina in 2005
Barack Obama getting elected in 2008
Michael Jackson dying in 2009

 

[focusloco]

When Mike Tyson got knocked out by Buster Douglas ....I couldn't believe it ...just stared at the tv like

 

[humminbird]

Kobe declared dead
will post more later

 

[WTFisWallace?]

Katrina. Not a specific moment. But as a kid, felt like that was a defining moment in truly understanding white people at large really don’t fukk with black people.

 

[profound]

OJ bronco chase on tv
Death of Tupac, pac music videos on The Box all day
Death of Michael Jackson, phones jammed

 

[3xplatinum]

Columbine

I was in high school at the time.
(I know )and this was possibly the biggest school shooting at the moment. Pops said I could skip school the next day and when I came back they said only 61 out of 1500+ students were there

 

[melraH]

June 17 1994 watching my knicks in the finals and they cut away from the game for this



Last game we won in that series

 

[ThisIsLife]

Hearing when Tupac, Michael Jackson and Prince died.

Being told everything is being shut down and leaving my job that day for COVID.

The major snowstorm in 1996 for the northeast.

 

[Matt504]

The death of Princess Diana
Hurricane Katrina

 

[Dchris14]

COVID really was a wild time. Could never forget when they said schools would be on a 2 week break to stop the spread. There was def SOME worries about what was to come, but I never would have thought when I left school that day my senior year was pretty much done, or that I wasn't going to be in class again until my Sophomore year of college.

 

[Zime]

Feels like the world hasn't been the same after:

2001
2012
2020