Watched it in class, no idea if it was first run (unlikely in the UK)

probably not, since it was probably late afternoon GMT.

I remember when Sadat was assassinated very vividly. I was in 8th grade and that year I was the first one home every day. I remember thinking that afternoon about what I would do if there was some big news story that I would be the first one in the family to hear. And then I turned on the tv.

I remember where I was when Reagan and the Pope (and tellling a teacher in my afterschool program that the pope had been were shot and him thinking we were joking because it was so soon after the attempt on Reagan). And where I was when I learned that John Lennon had been killed (for some reason not until the following morning in home ec class).

But I don't remember where I was when I heard about Challenger. weird.

I thought I remembered seeing the chakllenger explode, but my math says I would have been 13, and therefore in 7th grade, while my memory of watching the shuttle on tv in a classroom has my 3rd grade teacher in it.

I do remember afterwards all the adults saying that this would be our "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" moment, but I have to say that 9/11 sort of blew that right out of the water.

I remember where I was when Reagan was shot,

My dorm room. Some guy ran in.

That was me. "Some guy" was my roommate.

Found out about Lennon the next morning. It was exam time.

I also remember that I saw that all about Reagan, Sadat, etc when watching the 6:00 news with my grandparents. I actually remember when the Iran hostages were freed and I was eight.

I do remember afterwards all the adults saying that this would be our "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" moment, but I have to say that 9/11 sort of blew that right out of the water.

It pretty much did, yeah.

But even before then, it was never my Kennedy moment -- I did see it live, and I was saddened, and then I was quickly annoyed by all the constant repetition. I didn't have the visceral OHMYGODSHOCK that everyone was so busy telling me I was experiencing.

I do remember afterwards all the adults saying that this would be our "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" moment, but I have to say that 9/11 sort of blew that right out of the water.

Yeah, no kidding.

From what's been mentioned, I remember only Challenger. Another was the coup in the Soviet Union, which I'm sure is impressed deeply on others as well. t /sarcasm because I'd just gotten back from there so der.

Oh, and when my cat got hit by a car when I was nine, or course. Somehow I don't think anyone else shares that one.

I do remember afterwards all the adults saying that this would be our "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" moment, but I have to say that 9/11 sort of blew that right out of the water.

I'm pretty sure my Mom, who can remember both pretty clearly, would say that 9/11 blew Kennedy getting shot out of the water too. Then again, since she was around for Hiroshima/Nagasaki, she's been around for some fairly epic pieces of 20th century violence.

9/11 was also different in that it was multiple announcements over a period of hours. Plus a few false alarms ("Bomb went off at the State Department", etc) leaving one with the sense of, OMG, what next? We can't seem to stop them....

Plus trying to follow the events on the internets added a new dimension.