Which news worthy events do you remember from your life time?

1993-Present

1.September 11, 2001. I was in third grade and I found out about the attacks when I came home

from school.

2. January 20, 2009 President Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of

the United States. I was in 10th grade when he was inaugurated, and I remember watching it in

Woods Hall.

3.April 16, 2007: Virginia Tech Massacre. I remember sitting in class an looking at the

headlines. I was in the eight grade.


1956-Present

1. Assignation of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

2. The fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany on

November 9, 1989.

3. September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks.