History in your life

[Deputy]

[quote]
2002-Euro becomes legal tender in Europe

[Ivan]

cut-and-paste from a few post... i'm lazy today

Two shuttle disasters
The end of the Cold War
A somewhat twitchy peace in N.Ireland
Several Russian/Soviet submarine disasters
The first probe leaving the Solar System
The falling of the Berlin Wall
CDs...
Mobile phones
DVDs
Microwave ovens
Britains first woman Prime Minister
two gulf wars, a few massacres in africa.
The Euro
The ISS and the end of Mir
The probe landing on Haleys Comet
The operational life of Concorde    
MP3
Microsoft  
First post-ww2 air-to-air kill by the dutch airforce
Bill 'i didn't have sex with that woman' Cinton
Enron, Ahold
9-11

surely i forgot a lot...

[cub3pp]

ok, even though i was alive when some of the stuff happened, i odviously dont remember it.
things i remember(amazing that i do.....i dont even remember breakfast.......where am i?):
Sep 11 2001
War on terror
Colombia disaster
Balkins Conflict(s)
2 mars landings
Clinton Scandal
Several serious airline crashes
Dec 17 2001,02,03-lord of the rings movie released
Helio Castronevas wins indy500 2 times in a row
Gil De Ferren Wins indy500
Michael Schumacher wins the past few world championships

Surfers paradise 02'



ill think of more when im less sleepy

[cub3pp]

[quote]

No no, not :-/, its

[Tequila Sunrise]

a lot of the above and:
My first parachute jump: March 16th 2003
My First glider flight: July 7th 2001
Joined the ATC: August 16th 1999
First concert as performer: May 28th 2003
Finish Shool May 21st 2004 (When I walk out of the maths exam, which just happens to be the day after my 18th birthday, so no bender on the big day  >:( >:( )

[PaveLowFE]

1992: Joining the USAF.
1995: Becoming a Flight Engineer on MH-53 PaveLow's.
1999: Earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for rescueing a downed F-16 pilot in Serbia.
1999: The birth of my daughter.
2001: Winning the MacKay Trophy for rescueing our sister ship that crashed in the mountains of Afghanistan while we attempted to save a Special Forces soldier who was sick. (At the ceremony in D.C., I got to meet John Glenn, Scott Crossfield, and the Chief of Staff of the AF.).

[Hagar]

I was born during WWII so can remember nothing of it. The first conflict I remember hearing about was the Malayan Emergency which started in 1948. When the radio news announcers referred to guerillas I thought they meant gorillas. For some considerable time aftewards I was convinced the terrorists were using trained apes to attack British troops.

[OTTOL]

I was born during WWII so can remember nothing of it. The first conflict I remember hearing about was the Malayan Emergency which started in 1948. When the radio news announcers referred to guerillas I thought they meant gorillas. For some considerable time aftewards I was convinced the terrorists were using trained apes to attack British troops.

I can say with reasonable confidence, that I think you have never seen a movie called Captain Ron, Doug. "Stay outta the jungle boss, there's Go-rillas in there!"  This is the premise for some great cheesy American comedy.
I think it's easy to tack off the major events of MY life from a "what made the headlines" standpoint, but "what affected my life most?"  9/11 first.......I had just gotten established in a job in the aviation buisness where I was making a lot of money doing what I loved best, flying airplanes, and those A$$h0l3s  f**cked it up! No I'm not disregarding the lives that were lost. BUT this was NOT a matter of lives lost, first and foremost(more people die of heart attacks on this planet in the course of one day), the biggest issue, in my opinion, was the idea that the Western world was no longer allowed to sit back and enjoy the same basic freedoms that it had before that day. I can't even walk around my favorite LOCAL airport anymore(they put up an 8foot chain link fence), and flying(even recreational) is fast becoming a pastime for the wealthy.
The BIGGEST event in MY life though, I would consider to be the fall of the Berlin wall and the "Iron Curtain" along with it. It was the ultimate letdown. Intitially, it seemed like Utopia come of Earth, to my 20 year old naive eyes. It would now seem that many of us long for that comfort of the "old days", when the lines were very clearly drawn and things seemed much simpler.

[Hagar]

[quote]
I can say with reasonable confidence, that I think you have never seen a movie called Captain Ron, Doug. "Stay outta the jungle boss, there's Go-rillas in there!"

[Felix/FFDS]

You might be right at that OTTOL. Seems I'm not the only one to be confused. I understand the origin of the word but always thought that guerilla was a stupid name to use anyway.

"guerilla" always made sense to me - "small war"  an aglicized diminutive of "guerra" in Spanish, which means "war".  "Guerrillero" would be the "small war fighter"

[Hagar]

[quote]"guerilla" always made sense to me - "small war"

[Dan]

September 11th
Concorde
Finding SimV
Getting FS2002

Thats thirteen years!
Dan

[Felix/FFDS]

LOL I know that now. I'm talking about 1948 when I was 5 years old.

It made perfect sense to me when I was 5 years old, too!

[Hagar]

It made perfect sense to me when I was 5 years old, too!

[Loafing Smurf]

I was born in 1985, so pretty much events that happened up to now.

The only significant historical event I saw live on TV was when Clinton made the big lie. I think he said it around January 27 1997. And yes, I was at home missing school, then the television happened to be on CNN.

You know the terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia on U.S military installations...I use play around in some of those installations as a kid. Very fortunate I was not there when it happened.

P.S I also played Counter-Strike beta 1.0 (to 6.0) until it got popular and went retail.