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

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

COVID and Obama’s first election

 

[MidwestD]

The Valujet crash in '96

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Doug Williams

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Gulf War
Ryan White (Indiana teenager who had AIDS and passed)
Mike Tyson going to prison
Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill
Jordans pops/retirement
Aaliyah Passing
Derrick Thomas from the Chiefs passing away

 

[spliz]

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

Basically all of these.

 

[85 East]

Oakland earthquake of 88 and the Berlin Wall were 2 events that happened when I was young, but stood out at the time like crazy. There are so many more, but those ones.

 

[Sad Bunny]

I wonder what the next big moment will be.

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

Aaliyah death…. - honestly didn’t want to believe it…
Hurricane Katrina - Watching the footage had a young breh
Michael Jackson Death - headed to work, swear it broke the Internet…
Whitney Houston death - at the space needle in Seattle
Kobe Death - Was sleep and my wife woke me up saying Kobe dying….

 

[YakSpiller]

MJ dying

This. Everyone I texted didn’t believe me.

And 3/14/2020.

I remembered walking up to a store and it was like we’re closed because of Coronavirus.

It ain’t been the same since I read that note on that door.

 

[85 East]

I wonder what the next big moment will be.

Hopefully not a fukking nuke going off

 

[Dipsey Doo]

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.

 

[General Mills]

OJ and that white bronco. Then the trial afterwards. It was must see tv

 

[General Mills]

Pac dying. I remember thinking eh. He will eat those shots like last time. It did not even occur to me that he would really die until it was announced.


Also aaliyah passing. The reason it sticks out to me was because the previous week I was watching Romeo Must Die for probably the 40th time. For some reason I kept looking at her and thinking. She is not supposed to be here.

I am far from a super spiritual person. But…. That feeling of …. Sadness and loss. I can’t even put it into words. when she died the next week I was

 

[Zostrianos]

Princess Diana's death
Columbine
The fear mongering following 9/11
Hurricane Katrina
Obama's election
Michael Jackson's death
Fukushima nuclear disaster
Infiltration and shuttering of Occupy Wall Street Movement
Covid Quarantine
George Floyd Protests
Capital Insurrection

 

[Child_Of_God]

Micheal Jackson and Kobe dying. The DC snipers.