What moment in History in your lifetime is your most memorable?

9/11 and the space shuttle exploding.

When I dropped that rock on top of the lizards.

Watching the Gulf War on the news. I remember thinking that my country is badass and the best in the world. I also remember the Berlin Wall coming down.

The year 1989.
The dismantling of the Warsaw-Pact.
I can remember watching news programs on manifestations in Bukarest that grew and grew every single time, and the Ceuasescus being booed off of his balcony one day.
And their process and execution.
Very moving times (especially for the people behind the Iron Curtain).
Later it all came tumbling down (and literally so with the Wall, in 1991).

Great idea, walls….......

The day President Kennedy was shot stands out the most.

I would say Brexit but any future grandkids will be middle aged by the time we actually leave.

9/11
Changed my life.

There are some excellent answers above. I would add to this the unveiling of the Tesla Model 3. It’s at that moment that I thought to myself: “Maybe mankind isn’t doomed to a post-apocalyptic, Mad-Max, hellscape future after all.”

The unveiling of the original iPhone was also a pretty massive leap forward. I’m not sure it’s ultimately been for the good, but humans will certainly never be the same.

Kennedy assassination.

I do remember 9/11, but I was only 10 when it happened so it may not be my most memorable. I also remember Hurricane Katrina fairly well. Unfortunately what is most likely going to be very memorable is the Trump presidency. But I’m only 28—I’m sure there will be more memorable moments to come.

The Moon landing.

Working all night at the Cypress collapse following the Loma Prieta earthquake.

@filmfann GA! I’ll never forget being at Game 3 of the ‘89 World Series during the Earthquake. We were seated in the pullout section of Candlestick park (they would pull the bleachers further out to make more seating for 49ers games), and we were rolling around like crazy. On the way home from the game, we were crossing the Golden Gate into Marin and you could see the flames and smoke in the Marina district.

9/11 for sure, but as a second answer…..
When the Cubs finally won a world series! I come from a Cubs family so it was an awesome event of bonding for us. Also, it was just amazing.

JFKs assassination.
Civil rights (even though I was a pampered, sheltered, privileged white girl and didn’t really feel that pain.)
Kent State.
Vietnam ending.
Challenger.
9 11
Obama.
Trump

My first tragedy was when JFK was assassinated. I was only 13 & he was the first President with whom I could easily relate.

The explosion of the Challenger was definitely a shocker for me as well.

Of course, 9/11 was the most traumatic for me personally. I didn’t know anyone who died that day, but it was the first time in my lifetime that we had been attacked as a country. I worked with a girl who was watching the news as people leapt to their death trying to escape the flames & she was laughing about how stupid they were. I can still hear her laughing & her attitude made the event even more personal for me!!!

She was fucking laughing??

Must have been me.

@Dutchess_III
People laugh out of nervousness as well, so unless we were right beside her at that time,we can’t tell, it it was immaturity ( age of the girl) , fear response,anything?

All of the above plus at age 13 years old viewed the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and wasn’t impressed with the girls in the audience screaming ( later found out that they were paid to do that for TV).
After the music was everywhere became enamored with them and the music. Did a stage show at school on the band and the music.
( We dressed up as George,Paul<Ringo,And John Lennon) and played the most popular songs.)

Most memorable is for me an almost impossible choice. But I do have a favorite for the event of monumental significance in my lifetime that garners little beyond undeserved neglect in the annals of our history. And that great unheralded lesson is on the implications of Dien Bien Phu.

I think the question asked for ONE you all!
(especially for Duchess).

I know, I did two, but for my age 9/11 is kinda a given

Well, you guys should pick one for me then! I’ve been through a LOT of memorable world situations. I really don’t know which one takes precedent. Each of them freaked me out in their own way.

When President Reagan was shot.

And that. ^^^^ But JFK affected me more because at the same moment his funeral procession was on TV my sister got the tip of her pinky finger chopped off in the door. The image was supposed to be black and white, but I have distinct images of red through it all.

The image of the Berlin Wall be disassembled brick by brick is something I will not forget. I also remember hearing on the radio when the USSR government fell…..I dropped a huge bowl of salad onto the floor in the kitchen. Of course, when I got to my office and was told planes had flown into the Twin Towers is another moment living in permanent memory storage.

“Take down this wall!”

The biggest one was 9/11. My mom worked in the city and I was very worried for her safety.

Also the shuttle Challenger explosion.

When I was little, I remember Nixon on TV saying “I am not a crook” and I remember him resigning. I also remember when the US pulled out of Vietnam and seeing the Vietnamese hanging onto the helicopters as they rose up from the ground. That was a very graphic image that sticks with me to this day. Obviously, someone is not going to survive if they are hanging off the outside of a helicopter, but it shows how desperate they were not to be in the country that would remain after the US left.

Also, I remember where I was when I heard about a lot of famous people dying. What I was doing when I found out John Lennon died, when Michael Jackson died, when Elvis Presley died, and a really big one, when Diana, Princess of Wales died.

Ditto to all of that too.

Princess Di was a real shocker. I lived in a 3 story home. Each floor was an apartment. One of the college kids came down and told me. I felt the earth tilt.

Same kid came down and dragged me up stairs and told me to look out the bedroom window. He asked if we were looking at a comet. Hail Bop we were! It was so weird to see something so out of place in the evening sky.
I had to grab a paper to find out what it was, though.