Composite photo from April 4th 1968, via Gordon Belray.
Some days I can remember that I can also date exactly on the Gregorian calendar (thanks mainly to the Wikipedia):
- 1960s
- 1968-04-04: Martin Luther King assassinated.
- 1968-04-13: Lunar eclipse. The Moon turns red.
- 1968-05-06: The morning after Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
- 1969-07-01: Prince Charles crowned by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1969-07-20: The first men on the Moon.
- 1970s
- 1970-03-07: solar eclipse, north-eastern US.
- 1970-04-22: the first Earth Day.
- 1971-06-30: Soyuz 11 cosmonauts die.
- 1971-07-06: Louis Armstrong dies.
- 1971-08-28: Tropical Storm Doria.
- 1972-06-30: a leap second is added
- 1972-08-04: Idi Amin kicks out Asians from Uganda.
- 1973-10-12: Gerald Ford named the US vice president.
- 1974-04-08: Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s homerun record.
- 1974-07-29: Mama Cass dies.
- 1974-08-09: Richard Nixon resigns.
- 1975-07-21: The thumpdown of Soyuz 19 (the Soyuz half of the Apollo-Soyuz mission).
- 1976-07-04: The US Bicentennial.
- 1976-07-20: The first picture from Mars from Viking 1.
- 1977-01-23: The first episode of “Roots”.
- 1977-03-19: The last episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”.
- 1977-07-13: New York blackout. One of the few times I was ever way out on Long Island.
- 1979-03-28: Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
- 1979-07-11: Skylab falls to Earth.
- 1980s
- 1981-07-29: Prince Charles marries Princess Diana.
- 1982-08-13: “Friday the 13th Part III” comes out.
- 1983-02-11: New York blizzard.
- 1983-11-20: “The Day After”.
- 1984-08-13: Jenny dies on “All My Children”.
- 1985-05-13: The MOVE bombing.
- 1985-07-13: Live Aid concert. The same day I met my future wife.
- 1986-01-28: Challenger space shuttle blows up.
- 1989-06-04: Tiananmen Square Massacre.
- 1989-11-09: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
- 1990s
- 1990-08-02: Iraq invades Kuwait.
- 1991-11-14: music video premiere of “Black or White” by Michael Jackson.
- 1992-04-29: The Rodney King trial ends in acquittal. The L.A. riots begin.
- 1993-02-26: World Trade Center bombing.
- 1993-06-22: Ruth Bader Ginsburg nominated.
- 1994-05-10: partial solar eclipse in New York: crescent suns on the sidewalk shining through the leaves of trees.
- 1994-06-17: police chase of O.J. Simpson’s white Ford Bronco.
- 1994-09-05: The last night before Judgement Day according to radio preacher Harold Camping.
- 1995-02-04: New York blizzard. Gina Torres remembers it too.
- 1995-04-19: Oklahoma City bombing.
- 1995-10-03: O.J. Simpson acquitted
- 1997-09-06: Princess Diana’s funeral. All those church bells endlessly ringing.
- 1999-04-20: Columbine High School massacre – on Hitler’s birthday!
- 1999-09-16: Hurricane Floyd – I never saw so much rain!
- 1999-12-31: the last night before Y2K.
- 2000s
- 2001-09-11: 9/11 – I never saw so much smoke in Real Life!
- 2001-10-07: US invades Afghanistan.
- 2001-11-12: American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, Queens.
- 2003-02-01: Columbia space shuttle disaster.
- 2003-03-19: Shock and awe: the US attacks Baghdad.
- 2003-04-21: Nina Simone dies.
- 2003-08-14: Northeast blackout
- 2004-10-27: The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series baseball championship since 1918.
- 2005-07-07: London terrorist attack.
- 2005-09-02: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
- 2006-01-08: I start this blog.
- 2007-02-14: Valentine’s Day blizzard – I was on a bus that drove through it in New Jersey.
- 2008-03-10: Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York admits to a sex scandal.
- 2008-11-11: Obama wins!!!
- 2009-06-25: Michael Jackson dies.
- 2010s
- 2011-05-27: Gil Scott-Heron dies.
- 2011-08-23: earthquake hits US east coast: 5.8 on the Richter scale – “Did you feel that?”
- 2012-10-30: at the library during Hurricane Sandy.
- 2013-07-01: Zimmerman Murder Trial, Day 6.
- 2015-10-21: Back to the Future Day.
- 2016-07-21: Donald Trump‘s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. This was when I could feel myself slipping into this alternate timeline.
- 2016-11-09: Trump wins.
- 2018-03-14: Marielle Franco assassinated.
- 2018-05-19: Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle.
- 2018-09-01: John McCain‘s funeral service.
- 2020s
- 2020-11-03: US Election Day 2020.
- 2021-01-06: The Capitol Riot
- 2021-06-29: today
– Abagond, 2021.
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Abagond 
“1989-06-04: Tiananmen Square Massacre.”
How did you manage to ‘remember’ something that didn’t happen?
THERE. WAS. NO. TIANANMEN. SQUARE. MASSACRE. What you ‘remember’ are the lies you were told by the US media and a Chinese woman who wanted her fellow students massacred by the PLA. It’s sad to see you still under the influence of that lie after I made a serious attempt to help you see the truth. How many other false memories are you harboring? I once thought you were a rational man!
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9/11 sticks out for me, kind of ilke the old folks say ‘ i remember right what i was doing when jfk was shot’
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and in gulf war one the news with the smart bomb going in a chimney and a door, over and over again,
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