Other than 9-11 what event in history do you most remember?

I remember when U.S.S. Cole was struck in Aden, Yemen. - that was the first time in my young Naval career that I realize the enemy can strike you at any time, any where.

Getting to shake hands with and salute General Doolittle when he dedicated the rolling Vietnam memorial in Monterey, California. I was selected to be the bugler for the ceremony that day. Getting to watch the Saturn IB Launch on tv in 1973 when I was a kid. That was the launch that carried the last skylab crew for the last skylab mission.

"We didn't start the fire".

John F Kennedy assassination !

I was in Hawaii when it became a state, never saw hide nor hair of Obama. I know, I know, that was before he was born. (or was it?)

People talk of Friday the 13th being bad luck. Saturday May 14th, 1983. I lost my girlfriend , had a pitcher of beer spilled in my lap, which I bought, and made me miss a pizza , which I bought too. Later that same knight , twisted my knee playing Ultimate Hand Ball. (a version of tennis with no rackets) . Bad day.

Real stuff, I remember something being said of Hurricane Camille, I was 3.

And 9 Nov 1989, when the wall came down. The day "WE" won the Cold War. I was in Germany on terminal leave at the time. I got a piece. :)

Moon landing would have been my first biggie. My dad was a photo mate at the time and his lab developed the footage brought back from that first trip.

The most memorable for me other than 9/11 would have to be Bin Laden's death. It has been the only other one to stick with me so much that I remember the details and announcement. I was sitting in my bedroom in the basement of my house and saw the news site headlines were reading "Breaking News: President to make major announcement in minutes" and shortly before he actually came on they said it was regarding Bin Laden. Went upstairs to my parents who were watching a random TV show and didn't know and excitedly told them that he had been killed. So far it's been one of the very few moments that I was actually happy to be hearing President Obama talking.

I have foggy memories about the fall of the Soviet Union. The events that stand out in my memory are the news that the Gulf War had begun, Mogadishu, the Branch Davidian deaths at Waco, the Randy Weaver debacle, and the Oklahoma City bombing, the airman who was shot down over Bosnia, and the end of apartheid in SA.

For me there are two. 1. JFK's assassination and the Cuban missile crises.