not so current events

The other day over at Ken Jenning's blog he asked readers to recall their first recollected news event.

I went to a wiki page that listed sigfificant events from the year 1975 because I thought I might remember stuff when I was four years old.

Turns out... not so much.

There is a reel to reel tape recording of me talking about "Mister Mitchell and Mister Dean" from Watergate fame. But I do not remember the conversation or what I was talking about. I guess everyone thought it was cute to have me repeat names from the news.

Then I went to 1976 and these I actually remember:

July 4 - United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

July 18 - Nadia Comaneci earns the first of 7 perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

November 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.

1977

January 23 - Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.

May 25 - Star Wars opens in cinemas and subsequently becomes the then-highest grossing film of all time.

July 13 - The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.

I wonder what E, K, and J will remember.