I always had this memory of my kindergarten teacher setting up a TV in the class for us to watch something. I didn't really understand what was going on at the time. However, I clearly remember the teacher suddenly turning off the TV in the middle of whatever we were watching and announcing that we were all going to the playground right away. It always struck me as weird and we never got an explanation as to what happened.

It was only years later that I learned about the challenger explosion and the date lined up perfectly for when I was in kindergarten. I watched it happen on live TV when I was very young and never even realized it for years.