What were the four most poignant historical time markers in your life?

A historical time marker is something everyone around you also experienced. For example, the one most poignant moment in my parent’s lives was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Number two would have been the Kennedy Assassination.

Naturally, if you were living in a country other than the States at the time, these events may have been felt differently by the population around you. For example, the Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest in 1958 might have been a life changing event for a Hungarian, but not much for an American. Or a black American might feel more strongly about the MLK assassination than the the assassination of one of the Kennedys. These are perfectly valid entries nevertheless.

Feel free to elaborate on where you were, what you were doing and why the event was poignant to you.