With the recent change in government in Egypt, I have been thinking of all the events that I have witnessed. While the list is not all encompasing, these are the events that stood in my life that I remember.

1. Energy crisis of 1979
2. Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters
3. Y2k
4. Attempted assignation of Ronald Reagan
5. Attempted assignation of Pope John Paul
6. Death of Pope John Paul
7. Death of John Lennon
8. Invasion of Kuwait and subsequent war
9. The Berlin Wall coming down
10. Downfall of Communism
11. 9/11 and post 9/11
12. Iraqi and Afghanistan wars
13. Gas prices increasing to $4 a gallon
14. Downfall of Lehman Brothers and the banking crisis
15. The Great Recession
16. Election of Barack Obama
17. Birth of the Internet
18. Rapid progress of technology
19. Completion of the Human Genome Project
20. Cloning
21. Hurricane Katrina
22. Asian Tsunami