History poll question s/o #2

[Mrs Mungo]

What year was the first major news event in your memory?

[mcconnellboys]

Wow. I'm SO old, so very old....

[simka2]

This will be fun! I always feel like such a kid on here. Now I get to find out for sure :D.

[Parrothead]

71-75

[Lady Florida.]

1961-65.

[Daisy]

This is hard for me because, although I'm old enough to have remembered some early 70's news, we didn't have a television & didn't get the newspaper. My parents were definitely not the type to discuss current events at the dinner table. I vaguely remember the Carter vs Reagan election in 1980 but mostly because my parents were thrilled enough about the outcome to actually mention it.

 

I remember tons of stuff from 1986 on but that is because I was in high school by that point.

[Mrs Mungo]

My answer was 1977.

[Mommy22alyns]

1986. :auto:

[Rhonda in TX]

This is hard for me because, although I'm old enough to have remembered some early 70's news, we didn't have a television & didn't get the newspaper. My parents were definitely not the type to discuss current events at the dinner table. I vaguely remember the Carter vs Reagan election in 1980 but mostly because my parents were thrilled enough about the outcome to actually mention it.

 

I remember tons of stuff from 1986 on but that is because I was in high school by that point.

 

Pretty much the same thing here. We had a TV, but my parents didn't discuss current events with us much. If I heard of things, it was in passing. We definitely didn't sit around the TV watching events unfold.

[ereks mom]

Wow. I'm SO old, so very old....

 

Me too! :tongue_smilie:

[ereks mom]

I remember the race riots and freedom marches and U.S. troops being sent to Vietnam in 1965, the year I turned 5.

[Maverick_Mom]

I thought I was old. Maybe I am -- but I'm in good company. ;)

[lauracolumbus]

Wow. I'm SO old, so very old....

 

See that's why I knew I liked this board. IRL I am so very old, but here I'm hanging out with my contemporaries!

 

Laura

[Spy Car]

The first big news event I remember clearly was the assignation of John F Kennedy in November of 1963.

 

Bill

Edited August 2, 2011 by Spy Car

[Truscifi]

1986. :auto:

 

 

Me too. The Challenger exploded. I was in 2nd grade. :leaving:

[FrogMom5]

1966-1970. The Vietnam War.

Denise

[TrixieB]

1969.

[Chelli]

1981--Princess Diana's Wedding

[Mrs Mungo]

What's up with the dip in our bell curve in 1966-1970? Those kids were in communes and missed the news? The parents were too busy smoking weed? What? :tongue_smilie:

[Shawna in Texas]

I voted 1985 only because I was in 2nd grade and we had a tornado alarm, except it was a *real* one rather than all the drills we had. I thought we were being bombed by Libya. That could have been early 1986, though. I remember Reagan's reelection because we had a not-anonymous mock election in our 2nd grade class. I felt really bad for those 2 kids who voted for Mondale. I still remember their names. It took me a few years to realize what a horrible thing the teacher had done.

 

I do remember the Challenger (3rd grade) vividly.

[HeidiKC]

Weird - I was just thinking yesterday how the first big unsettling event I remember (which also happens to be a historical event) was my parents coming home from an election returns party for the Nixon-McGovern race. And they were SO depressed - I actually think maybe my dad might have been crying?! I was about 5 and I still remember the worried and confused feeling I had about this new guy that was to be our President (because I knew that was a big deal) that my parents were so upset about. It felt like someone died or something.

[Liz CA]

2 major events I remember.

The Moon Landing and Nixon resigning. I did not understand much about Nixon but remembered seeing his face. :001_smile:

[Maus]

1969 - the moon walk.

 

We didn't have a tv -- my dad was in grad school, so I don't think we could afford one -- so we went to a neighbor's. I remember being told that this was very important, so I should pay attention, and seeing a lot of blurry figures on the tv, and playing under the tv, which was up on legs!

[HSMom2One]

Wow. I'm SO old, so very old....

 

Not as old as me. :tongue_smilie:

 

Lucinda

[Diana B]

I chose '86-'90. My earliest news memory was when the Gulf War started. I was in middle school. I *should* be able to remember earlier than that - but I can't.

[DaffodilDreams]

77

[Jean in Newcastle]

1968. We got our first black and white television for the 1968 Olympics. I also remember watching the 1969 moon landing too.

 

I might have remembered things from earlier if we had had a t.v. but back then we couldn't get an English newspaper so all our news pre t.v. came on the old FM radio. I wasn't interested in just listening to the news.;)

[Amy in TX]

1969--the moon landing. I was 5.

 

I also remember, from that era, THE DRAFT. I didn't know what it was exactly, but it haunts my earliest memories, because adults talked of it with such dread. "So-and-so got DRAFTED." I knew that a draft was cold air, and that men sometimes got DRAFTED, or taken away. So I imagined a cold, black wind that sucked men away forever. Ugh.

[Chris in VA]

I was born in 1963, and I remember the moon landing in 69, because my parents bought a color tv to watch it (of course it was in black and white...). I also remember hearing on the news that MLK was shot--I ran upstairs shouting Mom, a king has died! Indeed.

[cathmom]

What's interesting to me about this whole thing is how dependent it is on who your parents were and what they were interested in.

[Terabith]

The first thing I remember being aware of was the Reagan-Mondale re-election. We had an "election unit" in my third grade class, and I wrote a letter to President Reagan and got one of those White House form letters/ glossy books about the White House in return. Everyone was just in awe...a letter from the President! I remember that there was a woman running for Vice President too.

[pfamilygal]

The first thing I remember was the Challenger explosion.

[swimmermom3]

1972

[ereks mom]

Wow! Currently, most respondents have indicated that their earliest news memory was between 1976-1980, followed closely by 1981-1985. During that period, I graduated from high school (1978), got married (1980), graduated from college (1983). Boy, do I feel old! :ohmy:

[MrsMe]

Wow. I'm SO old, so very old....

 

Me too, LOL!