Events in history I most remember from my childhood.

I won't keep posting this often but I feel like I've done a lot of personal lists at this point and its time for one that maybe if you're reading this you can play along.
These are the events in history that I remember most vividly from my childhood (before high school) (They are not in any specific order):
1.The first Gulf War. My brother and I (or I should say my brother and he used me to help) made a video with micromachines (tiny cars) of a car chase looking for Saddam Hussein. We obviously didn't exactly understand the whole they can't catch this one guy concept and I honestly don't remember anything else besides that people wanted to find him and we couldn't.
2. The Somalian Civil War. This one I think is one of those world events that really altered the way I look at the world. (Of course they all do but this one especially turned my perception in ways that people who may not remember this didn't). I was pretty sure that the continent of Africa was VERY important to the US and that Somalia in particular was a world player in how things got done. Now I see a very different world- one that would rather lump the continent and treat it as one giant country and one that likes to largely ignore the entire continent unless it can make for a feel good moment about how we're helping those poor people over there. My childhood reflected a very different mood.
3. Oklahoma City Bombing. This is th other one that really altered the way I look at the world. My first view as a threat to this country was of a white male. It seemed an especially real threat to me since there were kids in that building and I was a kid. I have to admit a certain ignorance here- when September 11th happened, my history teacher told us that regardless of who would eventually come out and say they did it, Osama Bid Laden would be blamed for it. I had no concept of why he would say that since in my mind people who did awful things to the US were people like Tim McVeigh. I don't know whether this reflects a very isolationist view or a deconstructionist view.
4. Zaire becoming the Democratic Republic of Congo. In sixth grade, we had to reports on a country. My friend really wanted someone to do Zaire with her, and I agreed. It was awesome to learn all about the country and we had news events every single day because there was a Civil War going on. The day before we were to present these projects, the Civil War succeeded and our country changed everything- the flag, the currency, the name, the government. We managed to get a lot of it changed on our report too. It was so fascinating and probably counts as my first real awareness of how countries change hands through violence. Sure the Somalian Civil War is on this list, but I much more remember that one because the US was getting involved and the news stories were largely about gathering sympathy for the Somalian people. This one the US at least publicly stayed out of. It's a place I wish I could visit, but much as I hate to admit it would probably be too dangerous for me to. The country has switched hands a couple of times and if you ever read "Heart of Darkness" this is where that takes place.
5. Princess Diana's Death. This was one of those "you'll always remember where you were when" times. I was watching TV and a scroll bar started saying that Princess Diana had been in a car crash and broken her arm. Now I barely knew who Princess Diana was and the idea that she'd get a scroll bar for a broken arm seemed ridiculous. That is of course until the bar changed from "broken arm" to "severely injured" to "died". The reaction was incredible. Suddenly you couldn't live in this world without knowing Princess Diana. I think it was the first moment in my life that I became acutely aware of the power of someone dying to suddenly remind people that that person was living.
6. Columbine. This is one of the other "you'll always remember where you were when" moments of my childhood. I had just gotten back from school and for some reason turned on the TV in my parents bedroom. All I could see was them taking stretchers out of the school. It was awful. I had a really hard time trying to work through this one. School kid coming home from school and seeing another school where something awful had happened. That's a really difficult lesson to work through. Schools in my town responded pretty heavily- almost to the point of overboard since I know they were discussing putting metal detectors in.

Beyond these things there are a few other events in history I remember- The USSR falling apart (my brother was really excited about that one because every map was suddenly going to be wrong)