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Kultur: What Was The Biggest News Event to Occur In You Life?

What Was The Biggest News Event to Occur In You Life?

Bryant, Arkansas: Monday, January 18, 2009

Interviewers often like to ask those they interview, "What Is The Biggest News Event To Occur in Your Life?" Having been born during the Eisenhower Administration, the newsworthy items that have occurred since deserving consideration are legion:

The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School

Hawaiian Statehood

The Cuban Revolution

Election of the First Roman Catholic President

Vatican II

The Bay of Pigs

First Manned Space Flight

Construction of the Berlin Wall

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech

John F. Kennedy Assassination

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Six-Day War

The Monterey Pop Festival

Robert F. Kennedy Assassination

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination

Chicago, 1968

The First Moon Landing

Woodstock

Watergate

Munich Olympics

Withdrawal from Vietnam

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Yom Kippur War

Nixon Resigns

The Death of Mao Tse-tung

Death of Elvis Presley

Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II

Jonestown mass suicide

Margaret Thatcher elected British Prime Minister

Pope John Paul II. was shot in Vatican

Iran Hostage Crisis

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes

Destruction of the Berlin Wall

Nelson Mandela was released from prison

German re-unification

Desert Storm

End of Apartheid

Soviet Union dissolved

Bill Clinton Elected President

World Trade Center Bombing

Civil War in Rwanda

The 2000 Election

9/11

Michael Phelps' Perfect Olympics

While all of these events are noteworthy, they will all be replaced tomorrow when Barak Obama, the first Black Man elected President of the United States takes the Oath of Office, Tuesday, January 20, 2009.