On the second set, #6 is Away in a Manger, #7 is Joy to the World and #8 is Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. #9 can't possibly be White Christmas, can it? I'll stop now.
Like Michael Cohen (#3), I remember the 1956 election. My mother was working for Adlai, and took me and my sister with her to election HQ. Of course, what I remember was worrying tremendously about how she would be able to see to drive home after dark, until one of her friends explained headlights to me. What can I say? I was 4. I don't have any particular memory of Sputnik, but my mother remembers my coming home from kindergarten talking about it. The satellite I remember going outside to see at night was a few years later, an American satellite (Telstar?).
In terms of "where were you when?" memories, I remember the Kennedy inauguration (age 9), the first Russian man in space, the Cuban missile crisis, and, of course, the Kennedy assassination.
In response to #1, "waiting on line" (as opposed to "in line") has long been a feature of English in the New York metropolitan area. I didn't know that most of the rest of the country waited IN line until I started grad school in Texas and my classmates (in a Linguistics program, no less) commented on my usage. They, of course, had read that people in New York waited ON line, but didn't believe it until they actually heard someone use the collocation.
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