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

[UncleTomFord15]

Not really major, but the '03 blackout

Really, why? From New York and lived through it but was too young to understand what was going on and to remember it.

 

[semicko82]

Not exactly a major event but this shyt was surreal

 

[AllHolosEve]

-I remember where I was at during some of what's listed in here. The other shyt I remember happening but don't know where I was or what I was doing at the time.

-When I heard Pac died.
-When I heard Aaliyah died.
-When OJ was found not guilty.
-When Obama won.
-Sohh to Coli migration.
-Reading Charmander dying.
-George Floyd.
-The insurrection.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Covid
9/11
Somali civil war 91….I was getting chased by rebels ducking bazookas
Soooky era



Fred

 

[Days of Future Piff]

- Aaliyah's death.
- Obama winning the presidency in '08.
- Michael Jackson's death in 2009.
- When the Avengers dropped in 2012.
- Prince and David Bowie dying in 2016.
- Trump getting elected in 2016.
- Kobe Bryant's death.
- The COVID-19 outbreak.
- The George Floyd protests.
- The January 9th insurrection.

 

[xXOGLEGENDXx]

The Tsunami
Katrina
Treyvon Martin Verdict
Kobe's death
Michael Jackson's death
Obama winning
Sandy Hook
COVID
Y2K - Remember unplugging my computer and hiding it under my bed

 

[AngryBaby]

wouldn't be more efficient to just say I was born in 1990 lol

 

[Reality]

Deaths of:
*Pac
*BIG
*Aaliyah
*MJ
*Kobe
*Nipsey
*Chadwick Boseman

VTECH massacre
Obama elected
Osama killed
Trump edging into the lead on election night 2016 (felt like a fever dream at the time)
COVID runup - NBA season cancelled
Jan. 6th

 

[Ozymandeas]

9/11 - I was in history class not really grasping how serious it was meanwhile my history teacher was scaring us a bit by how much of a wreck he was.

Covid - I was tracking it in Jan 2020 before people thought it was gonna come over here. My manager thought it overblown and corny online propaganda and after i convinced her it wasn't, she thought the most that would happen was we were gonna be sent home for a few days. I knew we were gonna be home for months. I left the office first outta everybody. Unfortunately I was still wrong because it was years
Kobe dying - Doing assignments for work and my phone alert flashed, felt my stomach drop to my feet

Trump winning - Was doing an overnight shift. I wasn't even paying attention to social media or the news. I knew Trump was going to pull an upset because I knew crazy muthafukkas out there would vote for him just for the lolz, just to see how wild it would be.

Biden winning - I stayed up all night watching CNN. Nikkas can clown Biden now but, every last one of us was hoping that man won.

 

[Ozymandeas]

Deaths of:
*Pac
*BIG
*Aaliyah
*MJ
*Kobe
*Nipsey
*Chadwick Boseman

VTECH massacre
Obama elected
Osama killed
Trump edging into the lead on election night 2016 (felt like a fever dream at the time)
COVID runup - NBA season cancelled
Jan. 6th

I forgot about Nipsey.

I went to go see "Us" over at the University City Cinemark theater in Philly with my boys and when we got out, I got the alert Nip got shot

 

[richaveli83]

The 2020 George Floyd protests/riots that had every city looking like an end of the world movie, cars on fire, police in riot gear, city wide curfews in major cities, businesses being looted like never seen in broad day light, cars being stolen off the lot..I WAS AMAZED and I’m surprised no one really talks about just how crazy that summer really was..

Probably since it happened in the last couple of years. It is crazy if you think about it. This country hadn't seen protest all over at the same time since King's assassination.

 

[richaveli83]

First big event I could remember pretty well was the LA Riots....I was in elementary school back then.
Northridge earthquake in 94 was a pretty big event for me.
Columbine happened right when I was going into high school...never looked at a cac in trench coat the same again.
OJ of course.
I remember Magic retiring vaguely, but do remember the fallout very well.

There were some white guys at my school who wore black trench coats. They didn't get picked on or anything but they were definitely the outcasts. I remember for the next couple of years EVERYONE kept their eyes on them.

 

[richaveli83]

Not exactly a major event but this shyt was surreal

shyt happened over twenty years ago and I still can't believe this dude bought WCW.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

I was in HS when the OJ verdict was delivered. Every class had the trial on the radio & when the not guilty verdict was read you could hear the entire school erupt in celebration

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

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.

I work one of the few non-government jobs you may call "essential"--tv news. I remember when people were dropping like flies, refusing to come in to work when they were invited to stay home if they felt "unsafe" for any reason. And yeah I'll never forget the day I threw in the towel. And I was one of the last holdouts on my shift. Building was damn near empty. Just a few of us around. And when we all looked at each other and decided "fukk it they gotta figure this out, I'm not coming in either." And before we knew it we was all home chatting on zoom, emailing each other, and doing everything--TV PRODUCTION--through remote means, every day. Yeah that was some once in a generation happenings I will never ever forget.