I still can not forget 9/11 WTC collapse, watching it live on TV was something I had never imagined I would ever see! The images of the two towers falling is still very much alive in my mind! Regards, RightMan
I watched 9/11 live as the second plane hit. Definitely the biggest of my life and the one that hit directly home for all. But, back in 78 (I was a little kid) there was a cult leader named Jim Jones that led his "church" to Guyanna, and formed a settlement called Jonestown...about 900 people. If you don't know the story...Congressman Leo Ryan, CA, went down to investigate since so many were from California and their families were screaming for help from the Government. To make a long story short, Jone's men killed Congressman Leo Ryan and a newspaper reporter among others on the runway as they were leaving so that they couldn't get back to the states and tell what they had seen. Before the U.S. Secret Service, FBI and State Department could get down there, Jones had convinced his followers to commit mass suicide, and those that didn't were murdered. Only a hand full of people, out of over 900 made it out alive through the jungle as it all went down. I will never forget the news footage on ABC Nightline of an overhead shot of all those people, including many children laying dead in the jungle faced down in the grass. It was the most horrible thing I had ever heard of, that so many people could be convinced that a lunatic was the second coming of Christ , and be convinced to take their own lives, and the lives of their children. It's one thing to hear an arbitrary number of 900 people died, but it's another to see the bodies all lined up laying exactly where they died from their own hand. It is obviously the biggest mass suicide in recorded history. Here is a link to the trailer for the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_d1eVv0E8, and the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
Stripping anchormen and women reporting news at the same time. Forgot which country it was from though.... Something new for me, though it might be ancient history to others.
Princess Diana's death. I was a kid then, and I still haven't forgotten how big of a deal it was that time.