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@littlebug: I remember I was watching tv in my room eating breakfast when 9/11 happened. I was a junior in high school and I watched the today show every morning. I watched the second plane hit. But a couple years ago, a kid in my high school class posted something about how we all watched it happen at school. Which clearly didn't happen (the timing was wrong.). Memory is such a funny thing.

I remember my dad had picked me up from school for lunch when the oj verdict was announced. There were tvs at the restaurant.

I was teaching at a school on the west side of Chicago when Obama was inaugurated. So amazing to watch that with my kiddos (they broadcast it for the entire school).

I was only 3 at the time of the Challenger explosion, so I don't think I saw it.

No idea where I was for the OJ verdict, I didn't follow the trial all that closely. I also don't remember exactly where I was when Columbine happened, just hearing about it afterward.

Bush/Gore was my freshman year of college and I stayed up most of the night with some friends. I think we went to bed around 3:30 or 4 am when it was clear the election wouldn't be called for awhile.

9/11 was my sophomore year of college. I had just gotten out of the shower, went back to my room and turned on the radio to listen while I got dressed, and heard something about a plane hitting the WTC. I turned on my computer to pull up the news, and while I was logging on was when the second plane hit.

Barack Obama was elected my second year of law school, I was at a bar with friends watching when the election was called. I watched the inauguration with some of the same friends and we had super nerdy conversations about Justice Roberts' oath slip.

@littlebug: We're the same age and I was in similar places during all those events! 1st grade for the Challenger explosion, high school for OJ, first year of grad school for 9/11 (still remember exactly what I was wearing too as I was just coming home from the gym - I never was able to wear my Naval Academy plebe shirt again without thinking of that morning.... I opened our apartment door just as my roommate was saying 'oh my god, oh my god' as the second plane crashed into the south tower.)

I can't remember where I was when the OKC bombing occurred but I remember being addicted to the news for days afterwards. I couldn't get over the fact that the bombs were set off just underneath the building's day care facility, and that picture of the firefighter carrying the dying baby still haunts me to this day.

OJ verdict - I was in 6th grade in my history/English class. We were really disappointed she wouldn't let us watch on tv, when it felt like all the other teachers did.

9/11 - I was sleeping! But I grew up in California so it was pretty early then. I was a senior in high school. But I remember my dad was watching it all on tv and seeing the first tower fall before I left for school. The second tower fell when me brother and I were listening to the radio in my parked car waiting to go in.