10 Greatest Non-Personal Events/Phenomena Of Your Lifetime?
 

Name the 10 greatest events/phenomena that you have been alive for - non-personal, so things like 'Man Landing on the Moon', '1980 Miracle on Ice', 'Death of John Lennon' etc don't think anybody here was alive for V-Day.

born 1972

these are mostly things that I didn't appreciate the significance of until much later in my life..

live aid
berlin wall coming down
the internet becoming easily accessible
seeing what the Prince's trust does
seeing what the Bill & Melinda trust does (not sure on the exact name of that)

too lazy to think of any more

Falkland War
Freddy Mercury died
Berlin Wall coming down
German reunion
9/11

Yeah this is a tough one but I will try for a few:

1. The original star wars at the cinema where everyone stood up clapping
2. The Fall of the Berlin Wall
3. Death of Diana Princess of Wales
4. The Bombings at 911
5. Tsunami in the Phillipines
6. Death of Michael Jackson
7. Obama becoming President
8. Prince William and Kate Middleton Marriage
9. Queen Elizabeth Jubilee
10. Mandela Death

Terminator2, Red Star winning europe club cup in football, 9/11, etc etc

The discovery of Justin Bieber.

Astronomer Lamar Johnson discovering the fist black hole on the Downtown Atlanta stroll!

shuttle blowing up, red sox win world series, banging 4 girls together, 9-11,

The Internet
9/11
The Beatles
Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon
Assassinations of RFK and MLK
Muhammad Ali
Vietnam War/Fall of Saigon
1972 Soviet Canada Hockey Summit Series
1980 Miracle on Ice
Michael Jordan
Lech Walesa/Solidarity
End of the Soviet Union/Fall of the Berlin Wall
End of Apartheid in South Africa/Mandela
Challenger tragedy


others ....... Secretariat, Woodstock, Ben Johnson Olympic scandal, Watergate/Nixon Resigning, John Lennon's murder, Monday Night Football and the rise of the NFL, OJ Simpson, Saturday Night Live, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, not a fan of Obama's but seeing a black man elected President of the United States was historic

In no particular order:

Martin Luther King assassination
Beatles invade U.S.
Moon landing
Watergate
Space shuttle Challenger explosion
'72 Canada/Russia hockey series
3-Mile Island meltdown
John Lennon killed
Chernobyl explosion
Princess Diana death
Berlin Wall
Home computers
Internet created
Digital photography/video
First black president
Persian Gulf War
9/11

...and I was 3 years old last time Toronto Maple Laffs won the Stanley Cup. :1orglaugh

Fall of the USSR
Challenger shuttle
Reagan becoming president
9/11
Death of John Wayne
Death of Elvis
Northridge Earth quake
Moon landing
Kennedy assignation
Harley Davidson leaving AMF