Where What When

1. Living in New Haven, not yet 3 years old, when Kennedy was assassinated (1963).
2. On a family vacation in Montauk, when Richard Nixon resigned (1974).
3. Away at Exeter for summer school, when the infamous NYC blackout occurred (1977).
4. In a college dorm, visiting my boyfriend, when the US hockey team improbably beat the USSR in the Olympics (1980).
5. Just beginning graduate school, when flight KAL007 was shot down (1983).
6. In my mother’s kitchen, when I learned that my grandfather (her father) had died (1984).
7. At work, at a downtown white shoe law firm, when the Challenger exploded (1986).
8. Working at my first non-profit job, when the stock market crashed (1987).
   
9. In the stadium, when the Mets last won the World Series (1986).
10. In San Francisco at the tail end of a California/Oregon driving trip, when Princess Diana died (1997).
11. At home, getting ready for work, when the planes hit the World Trade Center (2001).
12. On the crosstown bus, when I got the call that IVF#2 had failed (2002).
13. Walking up Broadway, when I found out that my CVS was normal and my baby was fine (2003).

I don't really remember #1. But I'm the only one that remembers #12 & #13 - that is, the moment of transmission, not the news in and of itself.