Earliest Big Event You Remember

[Harvey]

I saw the Challenger blow up on TV. When we saw it we were like what? No one in the room I was in understood what we were seeing at first.

Munson was possibly my favorite ball player of all times. There was something about him. He was a clutch hitter, a good catcher, a team leader. Often in the most clutch situations you just need to put the bat on the ball and drop it into the outfield, to get a Mickey Rivers across the plate. Munson was the man.

 

[ScottySkis]

Today in 1994 I was huge hockey fan I was completely opposite person when they won the cup
Amazing how 25 years later I changed for better

 

[x10003q]

My ticket from game 7.

 

[MC2]

Challenger explosion for me. I have a memory of being in school and they showing it to us live (I guess there were some teachers aboard, so it was a big thing in schools).

Great job, school administrators.

 

[Kingslug]

1968,69 lot of stuff happened..moon landing was a biggie..

 

[Kingslug]

Nixon trials..Saturday Night Live had a field day with that. And our first color TV..Star Trek in color...holy canoli..red shirts....

 

[Ripitz]

The Olympic torch came through Fishkill on its way to Lake Placid for the games in 1980. They closed Route 9 as the runners relayed the flame. Our entire elementary school came out to see it pass by. My Mom took my sister and I out of school and we went up to the Roosevelt Mansion in Hyde Park to see them light a memorial flame at his grave which was followed by a minute of silence.

Found in the Archives

The Olympic Torch Stopped in Hyde Park Excitement over the present-day Summer Games of the XXX Olympiad reminded us that the famous torch once paid a visit to the FDR Home and Library. On Februar…

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I’ll never forget the high of running down the driveway along side the runner with the torch. I was six years old.

 

[tirolski]

Eating cake, ice cream and pie are first big events remembered by me. All homemade.
Can’t forget homemade cookies either and the smell of em baking.

 

[Brownski]

I think I weighed in earlier in this thread. I can remember some very early stuff, back to when I was only a year old but I thought the first big event that I remembered as it happened was the 1980 Hockey game Vs the Russians. Upon reflection I realize it’s probably Thurmon Munson’s plane crash. That was earlier. I remember the hostage crisis and the 1976 election, the late 70s Yankees and tons of personal stuff from the 70s but that doesn’t really count.

 

[Brownski]

Challenger explosion for me. I have a memory of being in school and they showing it to us live (I guess there were some teachers aboard, so it was a big thing in schools).

Great job, school administrators.

That made a big impression on me too but I’m older. I didn’t watch it live. I was in study hall. A teacher came in and told us. The guy was always joking around so I thought it was a dumb joke- didn’t believe it was true right away.