Do you remember where you were when John F Kennedy was assassinated?

That reminds me of a former coworker who said she would play good guys/bad guys with her brother when they were kids and the bad guy was always Idi Amin.

i ticked no in case Plato was right

Dad had an Ayatollah dartboard.

i still have my osama bin laden toilet paper

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A co-worker had a "Buy Iraqi War Bonds" bumper sticker then (Iraq was fighting with Iran), and I remember wanted to zing him on it when the Kuwait thing happened, but I think it was already long gone.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sixteen old people. One present and accounted for.

Two.

3

my earliest "i remember that" memory is the challenger exploding,

I was in school, a friend was not (this was exam time, I had some, he didn't), he saw the live TV coverage. Apparently, the coverage showed the big explosion, and a bystander close to the TV camera/mic said "ooh.... Is it *supposed* to do that?"

Schoolfriend comes over one spring afternoon.
Him: Kurt Cobain died yesterday
Me: Who?
Him: (puts on Territorial Pissings)
Me: Oh right!

My 7th grade science teacher was a teacher in space finalist and we were in his class, watching the launch when the Challenger exploded so I definitely, definitely remember that.

O_O

The earliest big, big news story I remember for sure is the Jonestown mass suicide. Someone in my father's unit had a relative there and had to be given emergency leave to go home from Germany.