1976
Nadia Comaneci receives 7 perfect 10’s at Olympics for gymnastics
1977
Elvis found dead
Star Wars movie released
1978
First Test tube baby
John Paul II becomes Pope (I remember when they were deciding who would become Pope, they let smoke come out of the little window. Dark smoke meant no decision; white smoke meant they decided.)
Jonestown Massacre
1979
Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island
1980
John Lennon assassinated
Mount St. Helens Erupted
1981
Assassination attempt on the Pope
Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan
Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana
First woman appointed to Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor)
1986
Challenger Shuttle explodes
Chernobyl nuclear accident
USSR launches the Mir space station
Iran-Contra scandal
1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Exxon Valdez spills oil on coastline
Student massacred in China’s Tiananmen Square
1990
Nelson Mandela freed
1991
Operation Desert Storm
1992
Riots in Los Angeles after the verdict from Rodney King
1993
World Trade Center bombed
1995
Oklahoma City bombing
1996
Unabomber arrested
1997
Hale-Bopp comet visible
Princess Diana killed in car crash
1998
Torrential rains and flooding in the San Francisco area (this was my honeymoon, sigh…)
President Clinton impeached
1999
Fear of Y2K bug
JFK Jr. killed in plane crash
Killing spree at Columbine High School
2001
al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001
I kind of lost my steam at this point in the list. I was very pregnant with my daughter when al-Qaeda attacked. I was working in a school as a speech pathologist and was standing in the preschool room when it happened. Luckily the teacher did not have kids that day. I just remember being so stunned; I had trouble processing that it was happening here, in the U.S. It's amazing where we've come since then.
As far as the wedding goes, a friend of mine told me she heard Harry was going to live with them in their new home. British royalty is really coming into the new age, huh? They sound like regular people!
1 comment:
I was in grade school when Charles and Diana were married, so I did not ever get to see anything but clips.it was very nice to watch and my 17 yr old son even watched. it is current/ history
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