What Was The Biggest News Event You Remember?

[GetInTheTruck]

Word gotta be OJ.

 

[a murda]

Don't sleep on the DC snipers

Then it turned out they were black

nikkas got caught sleeping in a caprice

 

[MillionMills]

Tsunami
Death of Princess Diana
7/7
Haiti earthquake



Damn

Damn forgot all about Princess Diana

 

[NotaPAWG]

columbine and virginia tech for sure

 

[Address_Unknown]

Was jumping in to say 9/11 but since that's off the docket, it gotta be when MJ died. I was on a Cruise when the shyt happened and it was a surreal fukking experience. I ain't never really felt any shyt like that short of when the Chief Minister of the Island I live on died and the whole island shut down and went into sort of like a semi-mourning period out of respect.

I was drinking heavy at the time and chasing trim so when I went back to my Cabin and was like Jackson 5 movie playing? Dope! Let me watch this shyt, I'm flipping through the meager list of stations and noticing EVERYTHING is MJ related, so I'm like "nikka what?" Then my Mom's calls me up on the Cabin phone and asks me if I see the news. I was like (We noticed that atleast one famous celeb always dies when we were on Vacation, with the most notable being Bernie Mac the year before)

Jackson 5 movie played the whole night.
The Internet WORLDWIDE was buggy as fukk 'cause I remember everybody running to the comp labs and wasting up all them expensive ass minutes to check the news/skype/email people. Called some folk back home and they said the Internet at home just quit. Nothing wouldn't load. They started playing pure Michael Jackson tunes for two days with a planned MJ day/dance off shyt in the works for one of the later nights.

What was more cool yet scary was the amount of work Grafitti artists put in within the hours that he died. I was in Russia at the time and that had to be the first time I saw cops standing next to hooded dudes during murals and busting out moves on some respect shyt.

Someone had painted a big ass

sign and rolled it off a tall building amongst other pieces and the shyt was amazing. I wish I had a camera/smartphone back then to take pics, but every port we stopped at, MJ was the topic. From Merch to Music. Who wasn't dancing, was singing shyt and this one chick when I was in Bosnia was holding a big ass tabloid picture and weeping like a baby. shyt was crazy.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

 

[Kool]

The L.A. Riots

The OJ case

9/11

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Colombine. I went to mostly white school. Had me going to school everyday like

We had a lot of gothic clothes wearing kids too

 

[filial_piety]

911, v tech school shootings, Katrina???

Damn I'm old af I was an adult when all that went down.

Columbia space shuttle for me

 

[raidersreceiver]

Either MJ dying or the VT shooters

 

[MindOverMatter]

Everyone else named most of them already.
Oddly enough Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal sticks out to me. Maybe because it was during my coming of age time and i just started understanding what sex was. Lol

 

[LezJepzin]

Columbine. Had a choir teacher in high school who not only went there but his teacher was one of the ones who got killed. We dedicated our concerts to him and the others who were murdered.

Exxon Oil Spill in '89. Remember Exxon having gas stations all over the place where I'm at only for all of them to disappear overnight it seemed because of the huge business hit.

I mentioned in the women in small towns thread that I went to Biloxi , along with Baton Rouge and Mississippi, which was in 2004. - A year before Katrina .

I got a Hooters Shirt of the one I went to in Biloxi Beach . shyt is probably a collectable now

OJ Trial

1986 Floods in the Sacramento and surrounding areas and the 1989 Bay area earthquake.

 

[EndDomination]

9/11 When I was in Kindergarten
Tsunami that hit Indonesia, when I was in 3rd Grade
Virginia Tech and SuccessTech Academy shootings, happened the same year, and one happened in my city, so I simply did not hear the end of it.
Pres. Obama's election win the very next year
By 7th grade I watched and read the news pretty regularly so pretty much every major world event was pretty big to me.
I watched the whole Casey Anthony ordeal while on vacation and the Anthony Sowell thing was huge here (again, this is Cleveland).

 

[Black Magisterialness]

LA Riots - I was young but remember it vividly

OJ - the birthplace of the media circus

Columbine/Kosovo - We bombed the hell out of those Serbs while, middle America was getting lit up by their own kids.

9/11 - obviously

Katrina

MJ's Death

 

[MikelArteta]

9/11
I remember that first day, airports and tourist attractions were shut down, every 6 min was a false report that led to something being shut down

I was in gr 10