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Question: Which of these major historical events do you personally remember?
#1
the 1929 stock crash (1929)
 
#2
The repeal of prohibition (1933)
 
#3
The Bombing of Pearl harbor (1941)
 
#4
The nuclear bombing of Hiroshima(1945)
 
#5
The Korean war (1950-1953)
 
#6
The Suez crisis (1956)
 
#7
The Cuban Missile crisis (1962)
 
#8
The assasination of JFK (1963)
 
#9
The Moon landing (1969)
 
#10
Watergate(1974)
 
#11
The US bicentenial (1976)
 
#12
The Iranian hostage crisis (1979-1981)
 
#13
The Mt. St. Hellens explosion(1980)
 
#14
The Challenger explosion(1986)
 
#15
The Cherynobyl explosion(1986)
 
#16
The Exxon Valdez oil spill (1989)
 
#17
The fall of the Berlin wall(1989)
 
#18
Tiananmen Square massacre (1989)
 
#19
The first Iraq war(1991)
 
#20
The first WTC bombing(1993)
 
#21
The Oklahoma city bombing(1995)
 
#22
The OJ Simpson trial(1995)
 
#23
The Columbine massacre (1999)
 
#24
The 'hagning chads' controversy(2000)
 
#25
The 9/11 Terrorist attacks (2001)
 
#26
The Begining of the second Iraq war (2003)
 
#27
The breakup of the Columbia(2003)
 
#28
The Virginia Tech shootings(2007)
 
#29
The Inaguration of Barrak Obama(2009)
 
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« on: October 19, 2009, 11:36:25 PM »

I remember the Gulf War and all the ones after it except the 1st WTC bombing, which I found out about later.
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2009, 11:26:38 AM »

I find it shocking how many people don't know about the Virgina tech shooting.

It wasn't big news outside the States.

And Saudi Arabia, where nobody has anything better to do than watch the news.

acutally, I was in Hong Kong at the time, and it was pretty big news there.
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