What were you doing when...

and where were you when the following historical events happened?
Feel free to add in some other significant events that would identify a moment in time when we all were basically aware of the same thing.

To name a few:

1929 Stock Market Crash (obviously only if you’re old enough)
Pearl Harbor Bombing (obviously only if you’re old enough)
Atomic Bombs 1945 (obviously only if you’re old enough)
JFK Assassination (obviously only if you’re old enough)
RFK Assassination
Man walks on moon
Space Shuttle Challenger
Reagan Shot
9/11 Terrorist Attacks
Major Olympic events?

Others? Please share.

I’ll start.

Man walks on Moon: I was 8 in Canoga Park, watching it on a old TV (B&W). The TV case was teal and white. I was wearing a blue bathing suit. The TV was in the NW corner of our living room in Canoga Park. I walked outside and looked up at the moon. (I verified my memory by checking with planetary software installed on my PC “Skyglobe”.)

Shuttle Challenger: I was in a PE softball class at CSUN, warming up, tossing the ball back and forth with another guy (who always wore a yamaka). He asked me if I had heard about the shuttle.

Reagan Shot: I was studying for a physics test at CSUN, sitting on the floor outside the classroom prior to the test.

9/11: I was driving north on Canoga towards work a couple minutes before 6AM, listening to KNX 1070 when the newscaster said something like “We’ve just had reports of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center in New York…”

Sylmar Quake: Living in Canoga Park. Very scary.

Northridge Quake: Living in Moorpark. Very scary.

Columbia Explosion: I was home in Thousand Oaks and my pager went off. I was subscribed to a free NASA service which sent out text pages whenever something significant happened. The text read something like “Mission Control in Houston has lost communication with the space shuttle…” I knew instantly this was bad as loss of comm with the orbiter just doesn’t happen. I flipped on CNN to see the debris in the sky.

OJ not guilty verdict: I was watching from my apartment at UCSB in Isla Vista. I couldn’t believe it. I think I shouted out the F word.