What history changing event.....

[raysnkaysmom]

What history changing event

happened while you were in elementary school? What do you remember most that was significant to history.

When I was in 5th grade, the space shuttle exploded, while we all watched on TV

 

[Pop Daddy]

Martin Luther King and RFK assassinated and man landing on the moon

 

[crz4mm2]

Splashdown of Apollo 11.

Awesome.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

My daughter was in kindergarten on 9/11

 

[scotlass]

The Berlin wall coming down was the first historic event i can remember being interested in.

 

[Pop Daddy]

good thread, but have you notice all the threads kind of feed off each other, you see somehting someone psoted and it makes you think of a thread, at least it does me

 

[raysnkaysmom]

good thread, but have you notice all the threads kind of feed off each other, you see somehting someone psoted and it makes you think of a thread, at least it does me

Yeah...I took this off your 8-12 hero thread....because I couldn't think of a hero at that age....lol

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

Oklahoma City Bombing.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I don't remember anything from elementary school, but I remember when Reagan was shot. I was in highschool.

I do remember once in elementary school, I'm thinking I was around 7 (so around 1975), I came home and my mom told me that something important happened and to try and remember that day when I got older. I can't figure out what it was.

 

[ms.yt]

Reagan was shot when I was in 4th grade.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I don't remember anything from elementary school, but I remember when Reagan was shot. I was in highschool.

I do remember once in elementary school, I'm thinking I was around 7 (so around 1975), I came home and my mom told me that something important happened and to try and remember that day when I got older. I can't figure out what it was.

The earliest thing I remember from the 70's was in 77....I was 3 when Elvis died, and I remember it because my mom cried... ALOT!

 

[Pop Daddy]

Yeah...I took this off your 8-12 hero thread....because I couldn't think of a hero at that age....lol

yep and I started my "what makes a good teacher" thread off of Caradana response in the favorite subject in High School thread

 

[MelanieC]

All of the stuff above was after elementary school. I do remember the day Elvis died and the day of the Fire in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand.

 

[dizluvah]

Like OP, the Challenger explosion.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

yep and I started my "what makes a good teacher" thread off of Caradana response in the favorite subject in High School thread

We're a bunch of theives with no minds of our own



Or, we're all just so smart that we think beyond what the other person is thinking.. yeah, thats it

 

[pearlieq]

The Challenger explosion. I was in the second grade and I remember it so clearly--they made an annoucement over the intercom while we were at school.

 

[MsLeFever]

I was in elementary during Vietnam. I remember having Civil Air Raid drills where we went into the gym and put our coats over our heads. They should have explained things more clearly to us....as I was sure that planes from Vietnam were capable of flying directly to NY to bomb Charles A Upson Elementary school!

 

[Swimnoid]

I was in 3rd grade when JFK was killed.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

I was in 1st grade when Reagan was shot...6th grade when the Challenger exploded...I truly can't remember anything else. My world revolved around MTV back then.

 

[crazyme5kids]

I was born in 1960, so started school in 1965. I have very vague memories of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King being shot. I do remember watching news reports about the Vietnam war, the moon landing and Woodstock. My brother was at Woodstock so I guess I was more interested in that. I adored him and all his hippie friends .

I also remember watching Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers, and the best one of all, All In The Family. All ground breaking entertainment.