today in history

[Phidippides]

I remember the day.  I was in high school.  They had a student in my school from West Germany get on the PA system and make some statement commemorating the day.

[skiguy]

You were in high school in 1961??

Aug 13, 1961 is when they built the Berlin Wall.

[Phidippides]

Oops.  I thought you were talking about the day it was torn down.

 

[scout1067]

I was pen pals with a girl from West Berlin in High School and when the wall came down she sent me about a 5 pound chunk of the wall, it sits in my living room still on the nick-nack shelf.

[Aetheling]

I remember watching live the fall of the wall in 1989, just like I watched Al-Sadat arriving in Israel in 1977 following the Camp David Accords. Live on TV, with a strange feeling of witnessing historical events even if I was too young to realize how important it was at the time.  Surprisingly my first real personal experience of the Berlin wall fall was when I saw Trabants on highways, full speed ahead ...


Trabant :  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/world/europe/17trabant.html

[Aetheling]

March 16, 1968. The My Lai Massacre.

And not a single "slut" to commemorate it ...   

[scout1067]

And the hum-drum life of the only person convicted of it: Lieutenant William Calley, A retired Jeweler.

[Aetheling]

May 17 2012 Donna Summer passed away

[scout1067]

May 17 2012 Donna Summer passed away

Is that really historical?  I tend to think not.  She did have some pretty good songs though.

[Aetheling]

it became historical since it was written in stone on the WCF tympanum