Which Newsworthy Events Do You Remember?

What I remember...

9/11
I remember in third grade being pulled into the hallway as a class and not knowing that what had happened. It wasn't really till fourth grade when all the books came out that I realized what had happened.

Katrina
I remember after Katrina that Adam Barrack joined our class, and having discussions in class where he told us about New Orleans. I also had neighbors  who moved the St. Louis after Katrina and all of their stuff was still in New Orleans - they took lots of trips back and eventually moved back.

BP Oil Spill - I remember hearing about the oil spill on the radio. It didn't really sink in at first because no one really knew the extent of the spill, but in the months afterwards there was all sorts of talk about it, especially all of the wacky solutions BP tried to use to plug the spill.


My mother remembers:

9/11 - At Whitfield and heard about it right before assembly from a substitute. Remembers being at assembly trying to figure out which students might have family and needed to talk to them and find out, etc.

Hostage Crisis in Iran - In elementary school in Houston, Texas, remember everyone wearing yellow ribbons and watching the news and everyone talking about it.

My father remembers...

9/11 - sitting at the office and heard it on the radio.

Challenger Explosion - walking towards job on college campus for work-study program. Around 1985-6. And a friend said something about it.

Hostage Crisis in Iran - In high school in Egypt and whenever there was political unrest in the middle east there would be armed guards outside our school.