Hurricane Donna in 1960, John Glenn orbiting the earth, the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK’s assassination in 1963, the big blackout in the northeast in 1965, the Apollo 1 disaster in 1967, RFK’s assassination, MLK’s assassination (1968 was a helluva year), the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, the end of the Vietnam War, Watergate and NIxon’s resignation, the attempts on the lives of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, the U.S. victory over the Soviet hockey team at Lake Placid in 1980; various snowstorms like one on Christmas Eve 1962, I think, and the Blizzard of ’78 (awesome!); The Challenger disaster, the fall of the USSR, the release of Nelson Mandela, the Y2K non-event, 09/11/01, the Columbia disaster, the Red Sox’ World Series victory in 2004, Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath, the arrival of the iPhone in 2007, Barack Obama’s election in 2008, various and numerous mass shootings, Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency, Covid 19, 01/06/2021. Recent history is chockful of happenings, not all good, especially since November 2016.
I’m sure I’m leaving a bunch of stuff out.
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