History is an on-going panorama. What important events have happened during your lifetime? Even for very young people there have been a number.

If you are talking about worldly then:

I will NEVER forget September 11, 2001.... But I wish it never ever happened. :0(

But if you are talking about in my family personally then I always love to remember my wedding day and the births of my four children!!! :0)

Kennedy assination then mlk then bobby kennedy too many

The Korean War and Vietnam War, Kennedy and King assassinations, first moon landing, Oklahoma City bombing, 9-11, Princess Diana's death, the new century ..... Lots and lots of major events.

My very first memory is of JFK's funeral . I was 20 months old. I have seen Nixon's fall and the whole Watergate scandal .  The Iran hostage crisis started my senior year of high school .  The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, and both attacks on the World Trade Center . And now what has to be the worst choices for a US presidential election .

On the upside, I have seen the moon landings and the fall of the Berlin Wall .

1. End of Korean War, Vietnam, Invasion of Grenada, Dessert Storm, Man on the moon, Kennedy / King / Bobby Kennedy assinations, Y2K, 9/11, Watergate, release of American Hotages from Iran, Princess Diana's death, The Beatles, Elvis, Connie Frances, Brenda Lee, Annette Funichelo, Death of John Lennon, Berlin Wall, many many others as well as the lunacy happening now.
   

Dear Didge,

I was born into war...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, re-taking the Philippines ("I shall return") when I was two weeks old. In Europe, the Battle of the Bulge when I was eight weeks...and I was not quite one year when Nagasaki-Hiroshima happened.

I prefer not to answer my own questions but, like everybody else, I'm reminded of so many unpleasant historical events that happened since I was born in 1937. But it wasn't all bad and I wanted to list some of the others. (I won't mention any that have already been listed.)

The old British Empire was replaced by a commonwealth of self-governing "dominions". More freedom for all with less dependence on mother England.

The establishment of Israel created a homeland for the Jews. Controversial? Of course, but a rare historical landmark.

The further development of telecommunications, and eventually the Internet, gave all of us much more knowledge about what was happening.

Giant leaps forward in civil rights including the overthrow of South Africa's apartheid regime.

Glasnost ... Which may have been a very mixed blessing.

The rise of the European Union.

Extraordinary advances in medicine... (eradication of smallpox, for instance, the Salk vaccine for polio, heart surgery, organ and limb transplants, and so on.)

...and technology.

It's been an amazing time to be alive.