Historians will be puzzled by 1970-onward

The question: What world events do I remember?

This is a fun question. I was born in 1970 and here’s what I remember:

• 1979-1981, The USA hostages in revolutionary Iran. US president Billy Carter being incapable of dealing with the issue (or at least that was how it was editorialized to me as a kid).
• 1968-1972. The Apollo Moon landings? Nope. No memory of that on the news (I would have been 0.1-2 years old). But I do remember the awesome 1973-74 Skylab program. I loved the thought of recycled rocket bodies being used for space platforms.
• 1955-1975, I knew it was still going on, but I have no memory of the Vietnam war (and the iconic April 30, 1975 helicopter evacuation of the US embasy [fall of Saigon]).
• 1970-1985. The metric system being introduced to my elementary school and the rest of Canada. My 30 cm, 1980-super ruler eventually snapped in half. And its edges were rounded off by it rubbing on pencil cases! BTW – my teacher-dad was convinced that I was damaging its corners… he never believed me (f**ker).
• 1974. The FLQ crisis (The October Crisis). And Prime Minister Piere Elliot Trudeau dealing with that.
• Spring, 1986. The death of my brother. Yes, I had a brother. He died just shy of the 1986 Vancouver Expo opening up in the Summer at False Creek, Vancouver (BC).
• The attempted assasination of US president Ronald Regan. I watched that live on TV.
• West Germany. East Germany. The wall coming down. Ronald Regan’s state of the union address… “Mikael Gorbachev, tear down the wall”.
• The collapse of the U.S.S.R. When it happened, I had no idea whether the Russians would recover from that anarchy.
• British Columbia’s insane Western Canadian Concept and their desire to cede from Canada.
• B.C. Premier Van Der Zalm. Fantasy Gardens, in Richmond, BC. Everything. All of his insanity.
• The cold war. Numbers stations. The Russian Woodpecker.
• 1982. UK premier Margaret Thatcher — and the Falkands War.
• 1989. Tiananmen Square Massacre, China. I learned VERY quickly that Chinese citizens were not a homogeneous mass of automitons.
• Too many African revolutions to count. Apparteid in South Africa.
• More recent: the Ontario blackout.
• Of course, 9/11. The NYC World Trade Centre collapse.
• Covid 19 Global pandemic.
• Let’s hope the bullshit happening in the Ukraine and Israel fizzles out.