We spent an hour in my library management class talking about the different generations that are currently in the workplace. The teacher was a bit of a geek about the subject, and I'm an even bigger one, so I was all over that discussion. We started out with a quiz that had us listening to different songs and identifying them and when they were from, and the corresponding generation that was in their youth at the time the song was recorded. Turns out, I was the only one who knew "A-tisket, A-tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald (thank you, Ken Burns's "Jazz" documentary!), but I had no idea on the N-Sync song that all of the 20-somethings in the class knew right away.
When the teacher was going over all the pivotal events in each generation, I put myself out as a rather typical early Gen-Xer and said that my earliest current events memory was reading in the local paper the transcripts of Patty Hearst's phone calls to her dad, and how horrified I was that some girl would talk like that to her own father.