What major historical events do you remember?
The butcher of Gaddafi
The overthrow of saddam
The overthrow of Hosni Mubarak
The overthrow of Bashir
The Rwanda genocide
The Serbian war
The ouster of Moi
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These are recent events that have happened in my lifetime and whose effects are still being felt or whose effects are still unknown. I could populate the list but the prompt didnโt ask for us to mention all of them.
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Someday I would love to hear more about The Ouster of Moi.
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In brief, Moi precipitated his own ouster when he chose Uhuru as the party candidate. Other politicians who had been eyeing that position left and formed a united front that trounced his candidate in the elections held that year.
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In which I discover that Kenya has an entire history of which I am ignorant. I was unfamiliar with Moi as a name, only knowing it as the French pronoun for me.
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Haha, no problem Susan. Now you know
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Assassination of JFK…..even though we are Canadians, we were dismissed from school after the announcement came over the PA.
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Interesting.
I wasn’t born then.
I should have included the election of Obama. We had screens in the university to watch his first inauguration.
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Of course not, you’re younger than my youngest son, who is 48.
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He is 8 years my senior. And I feel old
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Nope…..I”M old! Hahahaha!!!!
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I want to be as old as you, Ernest and Judy.
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It happens soon enough.
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That’s the challenge.
We are told to respect the old because whole all of us or must of us survive to be teenagers, to be old is not so easy.
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No, it isn’t.
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oh yes, I think anyone who was sentient that day remembers Kennedy’s assassination, and of course his brother’s, and Martin Luther King’s.
We no longer have a television, and most of the smaller newspapers of the paper variety no longer exist, at least in this state, since most of the news now comes to us online.
John Lennon’s assassination.
Jonestown.
I was about 13 or 14 when Buddy Holly died in that plane crash
I remember the Iran hostages, the Twin Towers, Saddam Hussein, the Cuban missile crisis, Mubarak. I even remember watching Queen Elizabeth being crowned, on our new Dumont TV, lol. I was about six or seven.
And the moon landing, the McCarthy hearings (on the news, they didn’t do live reporting in those days), and the Nixon impeachment scandal. It seems that what was televised then stays with me longer than what comes in over the net.
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Judy, my dear, you have been around for long!
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Similar memories. Great minds remember alike? LOL! ๐ Naked hugs!
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well of course. And those were so shocking, many of them, they sort of leave a mark on your brain, and sometimes your heart…
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They say great minds think alike. Maybe they remember alike too.
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:-)Indeed!
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all of them
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I remember when Truman won the election in 1948, and the start of the Korean war n 1950. First six months of the war went pretty badly for South Korea and the United States.
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That sounds like eons ago
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It was!!
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In addition to most already mentioned the Perestroika. The fall of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union. The following civil war in Georgia and unrest in Moldova and the human chain through Baltic states. The fall of aparthed policy. The Falkland war. The Grenada war. The Panama war. The Gulf War. The Tiananmei and Maidan square events. The Arab Spring. The rise and fall of the space shuttles. The building of the ISS. The deaths of Breznev and of Kekkonen and Finland joining the EU and later NATO.
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Off to check who is Breznev and Kekkonen
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