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Well, I have no idea where or when I heard the of the Berlin Wall falling, so that wasn't a biggie to me. YMMV.
Lou Gehrig's speech. Um, what speech? If you think I have anything to do with any sports in my memory, you are much mistaken. I remember some Olympic moments, but not my surroundings or anything like that. Nothing in the sporting world has that kind of "imprint" effect on me.
I Have a Dream? That might have qualified ... If I'd been on the Washington Mall that day. As it was, I'm certain I saw it after-the-fact, and it didn't imprint on me at the time. I was 7 or 8 years old.
I suspect tragedies have the imprint effect more obviously. But the moon-landing (to be specific, the first step on the moon) were one of those rare good imprints.
So only the JFK assassination and the moon thing were events most people of "my" time remember where and what and everything about those moments they experienced.
From what I understand, going back, the next things were perhaps D-Day, and certainly the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Prior to that, I'm not even sure "everyone" remembers the 1929 stock market crash. Radio was around then, but perhaps not pervasive enough. I'm not sure.
But I'm pretty sure prior to that, there were no such shared imprints ... as there was no media to bring that kind of news to a large audience simultaneously.
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