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wrogI just noticed how the Where Were You When... quiz is a whole bunch of late-80s and 90s events plus the JFK assassination. That's a rather dead giveaway that it was written by some Gen-Y kid who just threw in the JFK thing to catch the Old People. (I'll also guess it was a PNW person, since the Nisqually quake wasn't really national news).
I mean, c'mon. What about
13. The Apollo 11 moon landing (7/20/1969)
We were vacationing at my great aunt's cottage on Lake Michigan near Ludington. Her TV barely worked; the sound was sortof ok, but the picture kept going out. Very, very, very annoying.
14. Phase One (8/15/1971)
A Republican president announces wage and price controls to tame a "runaway" inflation rate of 4.5%. If you thought the stink over GHWBSr violating his silly "read my lips no new taxes" pledge was bad, that was nothing compared to this. And of course, little did they know what was coming (inflation got to 13% in 1980). My dad was incredibly pissed; he'd been overdue for a raise for quite some time.
15. The fall of Allende (9/11/1973)
Well all right, this was a big deal for us because my dad grew up in Chile, my grandparents had just "escaped" a few months earlier, and my uncle was a senior executive at a copper mining company whose assets there has just been nationalized. Lots of phone calls. We all breathed a sigh of relief that Chile wasn't going to be lost to the Communists like Cuba.
My uncle later had this 'funny' story about having to fly down to Miami in the middle of the night to deliver a special suitcase to some random people; naturally, he didn't dare look inside it.
16. The Yom Kippur attack (10/6/1973)
My 7th grade social studies teacher (yes, she was Jewish) was completely devastated. We all sat around in class in stunned silence that morning, figuring Israel was toast. I didn't find out about Nixon pulling the covers off the silos (when the Soviets threatened to intervene to save the Egyptian army) until years later.
17. Nixon announcing his resignation (8/8/1974)
It was horrifying; there was such foul language on those tapes. Politicians weren't supposed to talk like that. No, really.
18. The fall of Saigon (4/29/1975)
Glued to the TV, you better believe it.
19. The takeover of the US embassy in Iran (11/4/1979)
This was a big deal, too, but I don't remember where I was for it (aside from being a college freshman). Though once Cronkite hit on the idea of ending every broadcast with "and so ends the <n>-th day of the captivity of the American hostages in Iran", I knew then that Carter was finished.
20. Outbreak of the First Gulf War (9/22/1980)
I happened to be taking a politics course that semester (silly distributive requirements): International Relations. The instructor was something of a specialist on the Middle East. He was sure it would all be over in a few weeks.
I mean, c'mon. What about
13. The Apollo 11 moon landing (7/20/1969)
We were vacationing at my great aunt's cottage on Lake Michigan near Ludington. Her TV barely worked; the sound was sortof ok, but the picture kept going out. Very, very, very annoying.
14. Phase One (8/15/1971)
A Republican president announces wage and price controls to tame a "runaway" inflation rate of 4.5%. If you thought the stink over GHWBSr violating his silly "read my lips no new taxes" pledge was bad, that was nothing compared to this. And of course, little did they know what was coming (inflation got to 13% in 1980). My dad was incredibly pissed; he'd been overdue for a raise for quite some time.
15. The fall of Allende (9/11/1973)
Well all right, this was a big deal for us because my dad grew up in Chile, my grandparents had just "escaped" a few months earlier, and my uncle was a senior executive at a copper mining company whose assets there has just been nationalized. Lots of phone calls. We all breathed a sigh of relief that Chile wasn't going to be lost to the Communists like Cuba.
My uncle later had this 'funny' story about having to fly down to Miami in the middle of the night to deliver a special suitcase to some random people; naturally, he didn't dare look inside it.
16. The Yom Kippur attack (10/6/1973)
My 7th grade social studies teacher (yes, she was Jewish) was completely devastated. We all sat around in class in stunned silence that morning, figuring Israel was toast. I didn't find out about Nixon pulling the covers off the silos (when the Soviets threatened to intervene to save the Egyptian army) until years later.
17. Nixon announcing his resignation (8/8/1974)
It was horrifying; there was such foul language on those tapes. Politicians weren't supposed to talk like that. No, really.
18. The fall of Saigon (4/29/1975)
Glued to the TV, you better believe it.
19. The takeover of the US embassy in Iran (11/4/1979)
This was a big deal, too, but I don't remember where I was for it (aside from being a college freshman). Though once Cronkite hit on the idea of ending every broadcast with "and so ends the <n>-th day of the captivity of the American hostages in Iran", I knew then that Carter was finished.
20. Outbreak of the First Gulf War (9/22/1980)
I happened to be taking a politics course that semester (silly distributive requirements): International Relations. The instructor was something of a specialist on the Middle East. He was sure it would all be over in a few weeks.
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Yeah, but...
Date: 2003-01-12 01:32 pm (UTC)^_^
I don't know where it was written, but the person I got it from is in New York State! And she remembered, so it must have gotten some notice. On the other hand, the quiz did name it correctly, but it got the California quake wrong, so that does point back up here. So!
That's a lot of words to use to say NOTHING, innit? W00t!
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Date: 2003-01-12 06:26 pm (UTC)As to your fogey quiz:
13. The Apollo 11 moon landing (7/20/1969)
The fetal pre-me was in utero at 5 months gestation or so, as my mom and dad signed on a new house and watched the footage on TV, or so I hear.
14. Phase One (8/15/1971)
A Republican president announces wage and price controls to tame a "runaway" inflation rate of 4.5%.
gaa gaah goo goo dada mama (21 months old)
15. The fall of Allende (9/11/1973)
Somewhere between potty trained and preschool.
16. The Yom Kippur attack (10/6/1973)
See previous.
17. Nixon announcing his resignation (8/8/1974)
Still a year away from kindergarten. I was too young to understand who the president was.
18. The fall of Saigon (4/29/1975)
Being raised by hippies. Still not in kindergarten.
19. The takeover of the US embassy in Iran (11/4/1979)
Almost ten. This is when I started watching and paying attention to TV news regularly (though I did also watch various speeches by Carter in the previous few years). I was one of two people in 4th grade who could spell "Ayatollah Khomeini." This was the first major news story aside from the 1976 election that I can remember (unless you count various happenings during Carter's administration, like the "killer rabbit" story, or anything about Amy or Billy Carter.) I probably first saw the news about this in the TV room on the second floor of our log house in Gig Harbor. The TV was later moved downstairs to the main living room, but I distinctly remember watching major news event of this period in that room, which later became my stepdad's office/den.
20. Outbreak of the First Gulf War (9/22/1980)
No clue. I'm pretty sure I saw that event as just an extension of the Hostage Crisis (how very American-centric of me) at the time.
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