This is a direct rip from
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/wha...a-k-1783225504.
At what age do kids really comprehend big stories? 9? 10 years old? I was born in 79. I don't remember the Flames 86 run at all. I kind of remember the Olympics here in Calgary but not much since I didn't go to any events. I may have went to Olympic Plaza once with my parents (my brother got to see the ski jump Eddie the Eagle huhuhu).
I was 9 in 89 and that seems to be the year I started noticing/remembering things. Flames won the Cup in May, Tiananmen massacre in June. Michael Chang won the French Open the same day. Then the fall Berlin Wall in October.
But if I had to pick one, it would be Tiananmen Square. I didn't even know what the news was before that. My dad has to walk me through it.