What’s a world event that you have lived through, that sticks in your mind?

The Challenger explosion and 9/11.

The assassination of JFK ! November 22 1963. I was sitting in the school principle's office when it came over the radio.

JFK assassination, moon landing, Vietnam War, 9/11

There have been quite a few.

I was born before WWII and grew up in a time when everybody's focus was on the war. I was only 8 when it ended but can still remember the air raid drills, the rationing, and the enormous number of servicemen in the streets.

There have been a few in my lifetime. Iran Hostage Crisis, Reagan being shot. The Challenger explosion. The attack in the federal building in Oklahoma City. The one that I knew from the moment it happened that I knew would change my life was 9/11.

2 Kennedy Brothers, MLK, Challenger, Moon Landing, Soviet Union, Berlin Wall,  OKC Bombings, OJ Simpson, Reagan, Iran, 3000 Shoes, 1968 Olympic, Angela Davis, Charles Manson, Watts Riots, Sandy Hook, 240 USA Marines Killed, 9/11.   

Being of a similar age to many on here, I have clearly lived through the same history-changing events. There are two events that had a (very slight) direct effect on me.

I was in Berlin and the "old East" Germany about a month after the Berlin Wall came down. I drove on the Berlin - Rostock road - Built by the West Germans, to provide a connection through East Germany to the Baltic. I remember the watch towers at every road junction, now unmanned, and the Russian armoured cars, pointlessly patrolling and soon to leave forever.

I was in South Africa, again, a few weeks after the end of Apartheid, when Mandela was soon to become president. I remember sitting in a cafe on the beach front in Durban singing "Gimme Hope Joanna", with a mixed audience of hundreds - the song had been banned until a few weeks before.

I remember a white guy struggling to get a beach umbrella "sorted" for a black couple. "That would never have happened 6 months ago" said my host.

There were some "good" events in amongst the bad.

I was too young to remember JFK's assassination, but I remember the US landing on the moon and the Vietnam war.  The two most memorable as far as remembering where I was when I heard the news was the Challenger explosion and 9/11.

Landing on the moon back in 1969 i live close to nasa in houton and my father worked for nasa. Their was parties and parades for a week