I have a Tumblr account and I can tell the Tumblr community has a lot of young people. I stumbled across a post and the person was saying that they were very upset to be living through a historic event RIGHT NOW. It was a reference to our 2024 presidential elections.
But I thought to myself: How many historic events have I lived through?
Let me think. I've lived through:
1. Introduction of new technology: Television (50s) and Internet (90s)
2. 3 assassinations – John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
3. 3 POTUS Impeachments – Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump (impeached twice)
4. The passage of the Civil Rights Act
5. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon
6. Richard Speck - 1st serial killer or mass murderer I knew about
7. The Vietnam War and “Flower Power”
8. Iran-Contra Affair
9. Fall of the Berlin Wall
10. Oklahoma City Bombing
11. Sept 11th Attack
12. Death of Osama bin Laden and several other high-profile terrorists
13. COVID-19 Pandemic
14. January 6 Capitol Riot
15. Yom Kippur War in 1973 & 50 years later same conflict, same people, on Yom Kippur AGAIN!
16. Several Landmark Supreme Court Decisions from Roe v Wade to the overturning of Roe V Wade
17. MASS SHOOTINGS – 1960s at the University of Texas; 1980s at a McDonald's in California; 1990s at Luby's Cafeteria in Texas and at Columbine High School in Colorado … It's 2024 and NOW there are so many mass shootings we maintain a database of the incidents
There are more. But these events are memorable.
This is a global community so I'm wondering what historic events have taken place during your lifetime in your part of the world.
If you're in the USA, share too! Your memories might be different from mine.
