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Ben Okafor was just 12 years old when it began and told the BBC's Witness programme what happened.
BBC: Ben Okafor remembers the Biafran war
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An early starter when it came to kayaking, he began paddling when he was aged just four, encouraged by his parents who were both keen canoeists with Aberdeen Kayak Club.
BBC: Golden success for Olympic Scots
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The plane had just departed Teterboro Airport en route to Georgia when it began spiraling out of control at about 17, 000 feet and crashed on a wooded median on Interstate 287 near Morristown.
WSJ: NTSB: Pilot action, icing led to NJ plane crash
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Yet when experimentalists began to investigate it, they found that, just occasionally, there was something wrong.
ECONOMIST: Particle physics
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The 56-year-old, who was just 10 when the high-camp TV series began in 1966, said it "was a dream come true".
BBC: Original Batmobile sold for $4.2m at US auction
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In her 2008 memoir "Losing It, " Bertinelli noted that Franklin, just 31 when the show began, wasn't old enough to be her real mother.
WSJ: Bonnie Franklin, 'One Day At a Time' star, dies
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Hamlin's finish was just what the team needed as it tries to move up from 31st place when the week began into 20th, where it'd be eligible for a wild card entry into NASCAR's championship chase.
NPR: Kenseth Passes Busch For 1st Darlington Victory
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Moreover, it was in 2004 that America began importing bees from Australia just when American beekeepers are thought to have seen the first suspected cases of colony collapse disorder.
ECONOMIST: A virus may help explain colony collapse disorder
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It was odd but totally coincidental timing when, just days before the crisis in the Maldives began with the stepping down of President Mohamed Nasheed, I posted a piece about swimming with whale sharks in the Maldives and around the world.
FORBES: The Maldives Update: Business As Usual?
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One reason, Kohut said, was McCain's erratic behavior when the stock market began to crash, "suspending" his campaign and then restarting it just in time for the first debate.
NPR: Exit Polls Link Obama Victory To Economic Fears