Historic moments in your lifetime

1992 Los Angeles riots

North Ridge earthquake

Legalization of marijuana

AIDS

The death of Princess Diana

Trump presidency and its affect on the US

9/11

Princess Diana’s death/JKF Jr death

Challenger

AIDS

9/11 and Princess Diana's death were the big ones for me

JFK jR.

911 Attacks

Hearing the President of the USA say, “I like to grab them by the pussy and all Mexicans are rapists.”

The time I found out my aunt won several million dollars in the lottery.

Never gave me a fuckin cent!

Man on the moon. Riots in DC 1968. all of the above, minus 11

The assassination of Dr MLK.

Nixon's resignation!

Goldwater losing the 1964 election. My parents were big supporters and were devastated. Neither of them cared that much about politics after that.

I remember Marvin Luther King getting shot. Mother was from Virginia and her family had a big plantation that was lost after the war. She always thought of herself as Scarlett O'Hara and was a bit angry and felt that a life as a Southern belle was robbed from her. So she did not care for King and thought he was a rabble rouser. Daddy always said King was a Communist. Neither was terribly upset by the assassination, which drove my sister crazy.

Strangely, I don't remember much about Robert Kennedy's assassination, but I do remember President Kennedy's. It was very shocking.

9/11 & Columbine both happened when I was in high school.

9/11 was announced over the PA system.

OJ Trial was also a big thing and was announced over the PA system when I was in elementary school.

The Millennium

Obama, the first black president getting elected.

Challenger blowing up on live TV.

Aliens visit earth.

JFK assassination

MLK assassination

r15, how did you feel about those moments in time?

John Lennon murdered

Robin William’s suicide

Magic Johnson AIDS announcement

Berlin Wall demolished Nov. 1989

Coalition invasion of Iraq 2003

Chernobyl

The Gettysburg Address

OJ Bronco chase

MIne starts with President Kennedy being assassinated and includes all of the above. R23, I'm not R15, but I was 10 at the time and I felt like the world had gone crazy and who would be next? (This was less than 5 years after Pres. Kennedy was shot.)

[quote]Never gave me a fuckin cent!

For reasons that are well known to you.

Deaths of JFK, MLK, RFK.

R18 it’s true living in the beginning of anew century is fascinating.

Rock Hudson AIDS/gay announcement. Realized that there were gay people out there.

The Great Molasses Flood.

5th grade, my charter school was made up of "military brats" from the nearby Air Force base. On 9/11 the school was nearly empty with the exception of a few kids who's parents worked off base and didn't keep them home. We were on the West Coast so shit had hit the fan by the time school started. The teachers just left the news on for an hour or so. Most of the teachers, mine included didn't even show up to work (again a charter school). We were left to watch the news for an hour or two before they had us play outside for the rest of the day. Such a boring school day.

Junior Year of High School, sitting on the living room floor with my grandmother on Obama's election night. We were so nervous throughout his entire speech in grant park. It didn't seem safe to be exposed with sniper friendly sky scrapers all around. That night made me so proud as a black American.

Being one of the 1.8 million people, along with my mom, on the Mall for Obama's inauguration. I remember people, myself included, booing Bush when he cam out. My mother didn't participate and I'm thankful for her sense of class.

May 1995: the birth of Datalounge

The Beatles on Ed Sullivan

Marriage Equality

9/11

Berlin Wall came down

Man walks on the moon

Mets win 69 and 86 World Series

First black president

First low IQ former reality TV Show host president

Voting for Obama was exhilarating.

Tupac’s hologram at Chowchilla.

When I realized Louis Vuitton wasn’t where it’s at.

When my sister died of breast cancer age 42. I thought we would grow old together.

R44, I am so very sorry for your loss. I love you!

Man walks on the moon

Nixon resigns

Vietnam War ends

Berlin Wall falls

the USSR dissolves

Obama elected

I was born in 1960, but the moon walk is the first biggie I was aware of at the time.

Attempted assassination of Reagan, Alex Haig declaring he was “in control”. I was in the military - we just thought “oh shit!”

Challenger

Pan Am 103

Clinton/Lewinsky

9/11

Obama elected first black president

Marriage equality

11/8/16

Dawson’s 40 Load Weekend

Living in LA at the time the Northridge quake, the OJ trial and the Rodney King riots were all huge events in my life. I think you had to live here to get the full effect.

JFK assassination. MLK assassination. RFK assassination. Man lands on Moon and successfully returns. Nixon impeachment and resignation. The AIDS epidemic. Advent of personal computers / cell phones / the Internet. Collapse of the Soviet Union. China's turn toward a capitalist economy (whatever they like to call it.) 9/11 Same-sex marriage. and, sadly, the 2016 election.

JFK's election

JFK's assassination

MLK's assassination

RFK's assassination

Judy Garland's death

Apollo 11 moon landing

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Fall of the Soviet Union

Bill Clinton's Impeachment (let's talk about blowjobs, America!)

September 11

Gay marriage (starting in Massachusetts in 2004 through the Supreme Court ruling)

Legal weed.

Also first black president and had people stop working to witness it.... in Canada.

Wasn't impressed with them.

Everyday since I was born has been full of historic moments.

trump wins...

911.

I used to turn on the TV and watch the news for about 20-30 minutes before I got up in the morning. I turned on the TV and they were showing the first building in the World Trade Center on fire. The announcer was talking about “how blue the sky was that day” (no, that’s not just a DL cliche), and how they thought it was probably a small plane that hit, maybe the pilot had a heart attack and crashed.

Then, as the announcer filled time, rambling on, I saw in the distance, from the far right on the screen, a big commercial plane appear and fly behind the burning building, veering strangely at the last minute, deliberately turning and tilting drastically to hit the building. The plane plowed into the building from behind, from the live camera’s point of view. And I thought, I’ve just seen hundreds of people die live on the air. People in New York must have friends and family that work in that building, and they’ve just seen their spouses and children and parents die, live on the air. It seemed so unreal. It looked exactly like something out of a disaster movie.

I thought, this is how my parents felt when they heard about Pearl Harbor. Are we at war right now and don’t know it? Who would do this? And I thought, that plane tilted so drastically at the end. Commercial planes don’t do that. They must have been terrified. Even if they didn’t know before, when it veered like that, they knew.

I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, which I’m guessing is shorthand for the fall of Communism behind the iron curtain.

There were a series of events over months, and they were mostly bloodless.

IIRC, East Germans used to vacation in Hungary. The East Germans there crowed into an embassy there for sanctuary. Then, Hungary dropped its border restrictions and allowed them to escape into Austria. There was more like that, unveiled over time.

Finally, East Germany decided to open its border in Berlin, but it was supposed to be at a later date and in a controlled manner. Because of a communication mixup, the muckily-muck who announced the change thought it took effect immediately an announced it as such.

The guards were frantic when crowds appeared to cross the border. They didn’t want to shoot masses of civilians; or were afraid of being rushed by the crowd; or were afraid of being imprisoned later, for killing people, so they stood aside.

I remember I was glued to the TV and almost cried. I used to design nuclear submarines to kill Commies, mostly, so this was wonderful news.

It was huge!

If you don’t know, the Berlin Wall ran between the Brandenburg Gate, shown in R57, and the next door German Chancellory Building. It was a real insult to the Germans to put these two symbols of Germany on opposite sides of the Wall. Probably a Russian idea.

Puts all other entries to shame.

Apollo 11 moon landing

The Vietnam War ended

Elvis died

President Reagan being shot.

The Space Shuttle disaster. (Both of them)

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Fall of the Soviet Union

The LA Riots

The Northridge Quake

Bill Clinton's Impeachment

September 11

The election of Barack Obama

Gay marriage

Legal weed.

Sinking of the USS Thresher - submarine sunk during sea trials in 1963 with a loss of all hands, including my best friend’s father.

Assassination of JFK

Vatican II

Moon landing*

Fall of Communism*

September 11

The election of Barack Obama*

The election and impeachment of Donald J Turnip

*really made me proud to be an American

10 WWs for you, R59

The fall of Communism in Poland occurred after years of work by Reagan, Pope John Paul II, the Polish Solidarity movement, and others.

When it was later revealed that the third, secret message of Fatima (1917) was about the shooting of John-Paul II, it made some sense, as Our Lady of Fatima had asked for prayers for the return of Russia to the Christian faith, as it had just become Communist/atheist, and JPII had a lot to do with the fall of Communism.

-Princess Diana's death- I was only 12 at the time, but for some reason I felt quite sad.

-Columbine shootings

-9/11

All the events from above from JFK assassination onward, but here are two that haven't been mentioned:

The Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami in December, 2004 - the worst natural disaster in my lifetime.

Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 - the worst natural disaster in the US in my lifetime.

Datalounge coin phrase “insatiable bottom” in my lifetime, make big curiosity in AWG.

R51, Nixon wasn't impeached. He resigned when a GOP delegation led by Sen. Barry Goldwater convinced him that the House was prepared to impeach and there were enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove him from office.

The only impeachments (so far) have been Andrew Johnson (Lincoln's successor) and Bill Clinton, neither of whom was convicted after trial in the Senate.

Was in Turkey when it was overrun by refugees fleeing the Iran/Iraq war. Really brought home the human cost of conflict.

Was in New York during 9/11. The city soldiered on -- it was the rest of the country that turned the event into patriotic grief porn.

And yes, have had some unexpected deaths in the family that left terrible grief and loss.

Earth Day 1980 “I did not have sex with that woman.” Bill Clinton Princess Diana’s wedding day and the car accident that killed her. Versace’s murder the same summer as Princess Diana My sister’s death from breast cancer. Legal weed September 11th The South Asia Tsunami Katrina

Columbine shootings

The Challenger blowing up. I was sitting in a doctors office and they had on the TV. I watched the launch and watching it ascend and then boom!

9/11- had the morning news on and saw it happen in real time.

R59 Yes, I remember that. It was amazing how many people cared about it, it really transcended soap fans. I was on a school trip to Orlando. The entire hotel erupted when she won. The chaperons were crying. We teenagers couldn't believe it, she had been losing longer than we had been alive. Her losing streak had become so legendary and such a part of popular culture, that we couldn't believe it had come to an end, it really seemed like the end of an era.

[quote]On 9/11 the school was nearly empty with the exception of a few kids who's parents worked off base and didn't keep them home.

Oh, dear!

The first one for me is JFK's assassination.

JFK assassination, RFK, and MLK assassinations, Malcolm X's assassination. Civil Rights protests, urban riots in 1967-68. Charles Manson/ Tate- La Bianco murders.

Men on the Moon. Watergate hearings/Nixon resigns, Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Mama Cass, and John Lennon, all dead to me. National Guard gunning down protestors at Kent State in Ohio, and all the massive anti war protests. LBJ announcing he would not run for re-election, and Bobby Kennedy announcing that he would run for POTUS.

1968 Democratic convention riots. Meeting Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, and Aretha. Mandela getting out of prison, Seeing my very first Prince concert. Amazing.

Watching 2000 Bush vs. Gore election debacle. 9/11 attacks. Watching the first Gulf War live on CNN in 91-92? Watching Ronald Reagan smirk his way through the Presidential debate with Carter ..."There you go again..."

2008 Obama. 2016 Hillary..... and being absolutely convinced in the early hours of that terrible morning, that the election was stolen.

Who killed Malcom X

Louis Farrakan was actively involved, but it seems that there was involvement by the government exploiting divisions in the Black Muslim community, especially the head of the Black Muslims, Elijah Muhammed. So let's say the FBI knew that there was a hit out, and they not only did nothing to stop it, they may have had an informer within the Nation of Islam who was encouraging it. But most people believe it was done at the behest of Elijah Muhammed.

First BJ

Men always remember their first blowjob. Women remember their first kiss.

August 5, 1962

Marilyn Monroe died the night before. I was nearly six years old. I loved Marilyn Monroe. While I understood nothing, I knew that platinum blonde hair and sleeping pills and Hollywood was all so much more compelling than anything happening around me in the midwest and inherently better. I was made very sad by the news of her death. I remember seeing the headlines in the news papers and I remember a lot of tut-tutting and smug superiority from the adults around me. My family was going on a Sunday afternoon picnic to a park and I cried for Marilyn.

Imagine my condition just less than 7 years later when the TODAY SHOW reported the news that Judy died.

Three Mile Island, we lived about five miles away and didn’t leave when everyone else evacuated.

[quote]First BJ

Boy, you must be one ugly sommamabitch if your first BJ was “historic.”

[quote]Imagine my condition just less than 7 years later when the TODAY SHOW reported the news that Judy died.

Judy who?

R42, do you mean Coachella?

The earliest big event that I can recall paying attention to as a child was the Jonestown massacre in Guyana. My parents sent me out of the room when the evening news showed aerial footage of all the bloated dead bodies .

President Kennedy assignation. Apollo 11 moon landing. 9’11. Obama’s victory.

[quote]President Kennedy assignation

Which one? The one with Marilyn, right?

R85- isn’t it weird. I so vividly remember the Jim Jones Guyana killings. But I have no memory of ever hearing about the Harvey Milk killing which happened at the same time. I wonder if it’s because it wasn’t big in the news - or if I was just to young to register the gay angle.

I remember being angered when I was told that Freddie Mercury had died, in what seemed to be a casual, cavalier way. I wasn’t even a big fan, but I thought he should be respected.

About the same time, Anita Hill was testifying about being sexually harassed. The perp was promoted anyway. I remember, perhaps, because I was being sexually harassed by an asperbear boss at the time. I eventually complained and was reassigned. The perp is still on the SCOTUS.

Yes, R88, it is weird! WTF?

The release of Aaron Schock's Ass Shots

9/11 for sure.

Russia deciding the winner of a US presidential election and, of even more historical importance, one of the two great parties of congress being fine with it.

I genuinely think this is the most harmful historic event of my lifetime.

R93 How will this prevented from Russia deciding our election in 2020?

AIDS, 911.

Learning the answer to "Who shot J.R.?"

Most of what’s been listed, say 1974/75 and later.

Some of the earliest memories from then:

• Fall of Saigon - I was young, but I remember watching but not really understanding it on the news.

• Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton being canonized - this was huge for US, and especially NY Catholics.

• Generalissimo Franco dying and Juan Carlos becoming king - I remember the adults talking about it.

The Oklahoma Federal Building bombing

WACO

The Bill Clinton trial in the Senate. I remember being in Times Square when the vote was held. As if I was in the movies, I looked up at the old news ticker that used to surround the Times Tower in Times Square and read the news that the vote to convict him failed. What a relief that was. An awful morning gave way to a most welcome afternoon.

JFK Asssassination

34 days under Hezbullah bombardment

Altamont

[quote]I looked up at the old news ticker that used to surround the Times Tower in Times Square

That’s not there anymore?

That sucks. That was historic!

I think it has been entirely replaced by the bigger version attached to the Good Morning America studio.

June 22, 1969: I was discharged from the Army after flying from Saigon to Oakland. Free at last. Then I leaned Judy Garland died that morning in London.

Britney shaved her head.

The first time I watched a marathon of BreakingBad.

As a child I moved from small rural area to a large city. It was wonderful and turned out well. The murder of MILK was hard to get over.because the truth was often hidden.

that wall came DOWN

2019-2022 novel coronavirus pandemic

The asteroid ,

9/11 and the virus

TWA Flight 800..it practically blew up over my town and we saw they take pieces of the plane out of the ocean for months after

The birth of Timothee Hal Chalamet

Kennedy Assignation

Watergate

Iran Hostage Crisis

OPEC gas crisis

Fall of the Soviet Union

Mt. St. Helens

Space Shuttle disasters

9/11, Brexit, COVID 19, election of Obama, gay marriage legalized in all American states.

I was 6 when the Challenger exploded. That was the first thing I "remember" remember. Like what I was wearing, what my teacher looked like, etc.

My first partner was a Hawthorne fireman who dealt with the 1992 Riots firsthand. Man, that was a HUGE deal for those of us from LA. His stories reiterated my own 12 year old memories of the feat and confusion and anger.

Cobain's suicide was huge for people around my age.

I was babysitting my two nephews on 9/11. That was fascinating to try and explain.

Iran-Contra hearings - they were televised throughout the brokerage house and everyone was cheering for one of their own.

It was a middle class, slightly more educated Trumpian rally.

Death of Princess Diana, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson

Bill Clinton's inauguration

9/11

I was born in 1963:

1963: JFK assassination

1968: MLK assassination and RFK assassination

1969: Moon landing

1972-74: Watergate and subsequent Nixon resignation

1976 Bicentennial

1978 election of first non-Italian pope in 500 years; Solidarity movement

1979 Iran revolution and Iranian Hostage Crisis

1981 Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan

1982/83 Beginning of Aids Crisis

1983 Beirut bombing of Marine Barracks

1989 Fall of Berlin Wall, communism in eastern Europe, Tiananmen Square

1991 Collapse of the USSR

1992 Rodney King verdict and LA Riots

1995 Oklahoma City bombing

1997-99 Diana's death; Monica Lewinsky

2001 9/11

2008 Election of Barack Obama

The election of that racist, sexist, irresponsible imbecile is, of course, an historic event, but is of little consequence compared to any of the above events, unless you wish to argue that it signifies the decline of the United States as a world power, the end of the American Dream, and a backlash against the presidency of an African-American man.

Assassination

not Assignation

Stupid words that look exactly alike when you're not paying attention.

While in middle school, I was just blocks away from where the North Hollywood shootout took place. School of course went on lockdown all day and parents had to pick everyone up.

Some of the events that stood out for me:

1980-Yorkshire Ripper serial killer caught 1981 -Brixton Riots 1982- AIDS pandemic 1989- Berlin Wall 1989- Hillsborough Disaster 1989 - The Guilford Four were released 1990 -Poll tax riots 1990 - Thatcher's resignation 1990- Nelson Mandela was freed 1991 -Freddie Mercury dying of AIDS 1993- The murders of Stephen Lawrence and James Bulger 1997 - Labour government won the election in 1997 after years of Tory rule. 1997 - Princess Diana's death 1999 - Nailbombing attacks in Soho, Brixton and Brick Lane. 2001 -9/11 2013 - Same-sex marriage legalised in the UK (civil partnership, 2004) 2005 - London Bombings 2009- President Obama 2016- the year that took Prince, George Michael, Carrie Fisher, David Bowie... 2016- Brexit referendum and now, COVID-19.

Though I can remember many and more obvious events, two stand out as somewhat formative. Both left me with the lesson that events are rich in details and meanings, and that truth doesn't always reveal itself cleanly or all at once.

1969: Sharon Tate murders - I was 9 and there was a memorial reception for my paternal grandfather, a bunch of old Irish cousins via Philadelphia descended on my parent's house, all in black, and all stepping aside to talk in hushed tones about the Tate murders. So many theories on the crime, and more on what it meant culturally; everyone had a different take on the "cause" behind it.

1974-1975: Patty Hearst kidnapping & the Symbionese Liberation Army -- I was 14 and this was a story that unfolded slowly and with a lot of conflicting perspectives and an evasive truth.

R122, I'm the same age, and I don't really remember the Sharon Tate murders very well, but I remember following the whole Patty Hearst saga closely.

Well lets see - the rise of the transistor. Took approximately 25 years from invention to deployment. And because of that it was incorporated into the space program and in July of 1969 men walking on the moon.

Moving from dialup to broadband. Cell phones becoming little hand held computers. Need I go on?

The ones I can pinpoint what and where and that it would always stick with me, and still has:

Moon landing

Nixon resignation

Challenger explosion

Berlin Wall comes down

Hurricane Andrew

Kurt Cobain dead

Diana dead

9/11

7/7

Hurricane Katrina

Michael and Farrah dead

Brexit

Hurricane Irma

Electric lights right in the house!

Horseless carriages.

The assassination of Lincoln.

I was very proud to vote for Barack Obama, and I'm so white I'm almost translucent.

The death of Prince

Number 1: The invention of the caftan.

Would the advent of PREP medications be considered historic? While they are certainly the answer to many prayers, I would have to forego them and rely on condoms if I were still single or unattached. The side effects are too harsh to risk by engaging in certain sexual practices or drug usage.

The Emancipation Proclamation.

Something I don't think anyone else has mentioned, but I remember seeing so much of it on tv was the 1972 Summer Olympics, when Israeli team was attacked by Palestinian terrorists.

Born in '62 so I remember everything on these lists beginning with rocket launchings around 1968/9 but not the late '60s assassinations

Leaving the USA for good back in the mid-'90s, after winning the audition for Concertmaster of a major philharmonic orchestra abroad.

My dad took me to see Jaws after my parents divorce at age nine.

Battle of the Bulge

AIDS epidemic begins, fall of the Berlin wall and wnd of cold war, LA 1992 riots a few miles from my parents' home, Diana died, a recession, a biracial man became the first non-white US president, and now living through a global pandemic...I lived the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" by the age of 42. Least I got to travel a lot before the plague rendered us housebound.

Assignation of JFK, MLK, RFK. Moon landing, Nixon resignation.

inviting some guys from my adult softball team over to my house to watch a movie and getting liquored up. I wound up crawling around on the floor and worshiping their feet and cocks.

Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination by Jack Ruby on live TV. I was barely getting over JFK's assassination and then this happened. It's amazing how any of us got through the 1960s without the psychological pampering that became customary in the late 70s.

1977 - Elvis died.

I love this thread. Just when I was feeling old, you bitches made me feel young.

Looking up your birthday on Wikipedia is interesting, as you can start there and work your way forward through significant (and less significant to be honest) historical events. So, turns out I was born just before the wedding of Charles and Diana, which a lot of people have mentioned on here as a big event of their lifetime. As I was reading up on it, I found out that apparently the President of the Gambia, Dawda Jawara, was deposed in a coup d'état while he was attending the wedding. I always find random pieces of information like that interesting (he was eventually reinstated for those curious).

The 1977 Blackout

Regan getting shot

The Challenger exploding

Princess Di accident

TWA Flight 800

9/11

Trump geting elected

Iraq War Hurricane Katrina 2008 Recession Obama election MJ's death Rise of iPhones, YouTube, etc. Sandy Hook shooting Gay marriage legalization COVID-19

The wedding of Princess Di was watched by virtually everybody who had a TV. Not me, though, I was studying at college, I think.

Obama's election trumps all of these

The first time I got fucked!

Everything since 1969

Dumbest thread evah!

R144 - and there was no TV in the dorms that people were glued to?

The Challenger for sure (the first thing I remember)

Cobain dying (he was my hero).

Lady Diana (my mom was/is obsessed with the Royals, I am not, but it was important to her)

Obama's election (best friend is black and she and I just wept. We couldn't believe it).

The Kepler space telescope. It has definitively let us know that planetary systems are common, if not the norm. We didn't know for certain beforehand. This means that our galaxy and the universe may be teaming with life. I think this is the most profound discovery in my lifetime.

Well, yes, R149, but not me!

earrings

caftans

The election of Trump. The night started out so exciting. And then it gradually, ever so slowly, became bleaker, and bleaker, and darker, and drearier, and finally I went to bed, disgusted.

As awful as that was, living through it has been worse.

The night I first did anal with brother-boy I shit on the bed.

The pandemic riots of 2020

There were many historic moments in my lifetime. I've stood in the Rose Garden with Jimmy Carter, but the most memorable was with my sister, Suzanne. She was Miss Georgia. And she wasn't just any Miss Georgia, she was THE Miss Georgia.

She didn't twirl just a baton, that baton was on FIRE. And when she threw that baton into the air, it flew higher, further, faster than any baton has ever flown before, hitting a transformer and showering the darkened arena with SPARKS! And when it finally did come down, Marjorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12,000 people jumped to their feet for sixteen and one-half minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation, as flames illuminated her tear-stained face!

And that, Marjorie —just so you will know — and your children will someday know -- IS THE NIGHT THAT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA !

First lunar landing. I was very young, but remember my aunt, uncle, and cousins at our house to watch live.

Apollo 13. I was five years old and drew pictures of astronauts splash landing.

Nixon's resignation. I was delivering newspapers and reading the front page and I knew it was huge. I was ten.

Roots on TV. It was, I believe, the last truly national television moment that everybody watched.

Reagan's getting shot. I was between classes in high school in Sweden and stopped to watch the news on a TV in the lounge area. My classmates were cheering.

The Challenger explosion. I was on lunch at my off-campus house. My housemates and I watched all the televised shuttle launches. We had just sat down to watch then *poof*.

The attempted coup in Moscow in 1991. I was there as a graduate student and it was scary as fuck.

The Northridge earthquake. I had been in SoCal for six months and shit went wild.

So many more, but recent.