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1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
i can tell you where lots of other people were: my dad was just out of high school. mom was a senior. my cousin Kurt was born that morning. this happened eight years and five days before i was born

2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
don't remember how i heard, but i was in third grade at Broadmoor elementary school.

3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)
8th grade, Morton Jr High. our math teacher came back after lunch and told us that "shuttle thing" had blown up. she was pretty dumbfounded, and we didn't quite understand, either. it was an early dismissal day for us students, so our plans of spending the afternoon watching soaps was pretty much shot.

4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
senior at Butler High School. i think we had on the baseball game that was being played out there when it happened.

6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
living at home, watching peter jennings on abc news. went to the grocery store where i worked for a few things and filled in everyone there.

7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
working as a nanny in Marlton, NJ. watched part of it on TV, as i wasn't working that night.

8. When the building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
working at Bally's Park Place in Atlantic City, living in Absecon in a tiny apartment. i didn't know about it for several days, because i didn't watch TV, and only got the Sunday paper. it was a supervisor in my department talking about "all those babies" that prompted me to inquire.

9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
living at home with Mom and Dad. it was a saturday morning, and i woke up and came down to the kitchen to find both of them looking rather odd. They told me, and i think i went searching on TV for news footage. it was either her funeral or Mother Theresa's that i stayed up til all hours to watch.

10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
living on my own in Dayton. i'm sure i heard at work, as i don't watch TV or get a paper at home, and hadn't yet discovered online news sources. naturally it came with a LOT of unnecessary commentary from my highly-opinionated bosses.

11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
at work. we saw the various clips of Bill Gates at his meeting thing getting interrupted by all the movin' and shakin' ~ we have CNBC going on the TV in the front of our office. i remember thinking that Kimberly lived up there, and i wondered if she was OK.

12. When terrorists knocked over the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)
it was the morning after my return home from the weekend with Joel. i let myself sleep in, and as i woke to the radio, my still-dreaming brain interpreted the radio reports at airplanes hitting buildings in Columbus. when i finally woke up enough to realized Shit Was Happening, i turned on my TV for a bit.

CJ asked: How about when the Berlin Wall fell? that was 10/89, or somewhere there'bouts? i was a senior in HS, and probably saw it on the nightly news. i know i have the Time magazine from that, buried in my steamer trunk.