What is the first event of any historic significance that you can specifically remember?

The answers (in order recieved):

  • Ka-boom of the Challenger

  • the first space shuttle flight. "The Eagle has landed..."

  • I seriously remember John Lennon getting shot. I was only 6 at the time, and I didn't even really know who he was. I just remember seeing something on the TV about it.

  • The explosion of the Challanger space shuttle. I remember the school I was at hearded everyone into the lunchroom to crowd around a dinky little TV on the wall and we all milled around wondering what the hell the fuss was about. Eventually they sent us back to class. My memory really gets very unreliable the farther back I go...

  • Uh.. uh. Uh. Uhm. Uh. I remember one of the Reagan elections cause a woman was running for vice-president. And my parents voted for Reagan. Ick. Was that Mondale and Ferraro? I think that was.. 1984. I was 8.

  • The Challenger Space shuttle blowing up.

  • Glenn's orbit

  • i have vague memories of the national bicentennial festivities which would have been 1976...i definitely remember the iran hostage thing, tho.

  • I remember Alan Shepard making the first sub-orbital flight. Prior to that I vaguely remember asking my mother the funny name of the singer everyone was screaming about (Elvis) but I don't consider Elvis to be an event of historical significance. Maybe even further back was 'I like Ike' - it must have been the 1956 political campaign. But the biggie was Alan Sheppard.

  • Historical significance to the world - The Challenger Explostion. HIstorical significance to myself - BIRTH

  • well, this is strange but, for some reason I remember when President Reagan was shot. I was only about 3-4. I remember because throughout my life I was always plopped infront of a TV and that was the first time anything really shocking happened on the TV.

  • Reagan becoming president... I had no political opinion at the time... Though it was Ok with me...

  • I can remember people getting really excited about Watergate, but I don't remember anything specific. Also, I remember my parents having discussions about "the War"... Vietnam.

  • Nixon's resignation

  • the shooting of ronald regan, or the death of john lennon, whichever came first. i think they were both in the same year, and i remember both of them. i was 4.

  • Hmmmm . . . I'd probably have to say the Challenger explosion. This seems a little odd to me because I was nine, almost ten at the time, and I don't remember any historical event before that. Oh well. To get into my personal history, my family was living in Orlando at the time, and we all had the flu at the time (one of those viruses you just have to share with the whole family. Anyway, we were all home from school, and so I actually watched the event on t.v. I remember that my mom was getting out of the shower when it happened, and I went in to tell her, and she was really surprised and upset. And then we were watching Dan Rather on the television, and they were replaying the footage over and over.

  • The shooting down of the KAL flight, but I don't know if that is of any real historical significance. After that, the Challenger explosion.

  • Hmmmm, I don't know if it's an actual memory or made up, but it's good enough. I remember seeing the square hole in the lawn where the "For Sale" sign WAS for my house. I was 1 year old when we moved into this house so I don't know if what I was was made up or not.

  • New Years Eve 1980. Not really all that significant, I suppose. I thought the big ball dropping down was THE COOLEST!!

  • I want to say the bi-centennital, which would have put me at about 3.5 yrs old. Although I can't really remember anything about it, so it prolly don't count. Then it would have to be Regan getting plugged, or Challenger, or the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, whichever came first.

  • The United States' Bicentennial Celebration on July 4, 1976.

  • The first historic event I can remember personally recall would have to be the explosion of the space shuttle (Challenger, I think). It was the one carring the Krista McCullah, the teacher. Unfortunately, I was young enough at the time that it took me hours to figure out exactly what the whole event meant to so many people who were personally effected by it.

  • The Mondale/Ferraro vs Reagan campaign, and the first years of MTV.

  • First man landing on the moon, 20 July 1969, mostly because it was my 4th birthday.

  • Hmm, an interesting question. As of my momory now, the first thing I remember was the Challenger explosion, back when I was in elementary school. Don't remember much before that, at least as of now.

  • Not sure how historically significant this really is, but I vaguely recall Jimmy Carter being elected president in '76. He was a peanut farmer you know.

    My answer:

    The presidential election of 1980. I remember riding home with my dad on election day and listing to the results of states coming in. At the time I was applauding when Reagan won a state. My dad thought it was cute and tried to duplicate the experiment for my mother.

    It, of course, failed, and I've been a Democrat ever since...

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