Muhammad Ali, formally known as Cassius Clay, shares his reaction to the fight with Sonny Liston on February 25, 1964 in this post fight interview. He famously declares, 'I must be the greatest' and poetically jokes how he beat Liston in seven rounds. Liston and Ali had a rematch on in May 1965 and though Ali was declared the winner it remains one of the most controversial fights in boxing history.

A man who was a student at Christ the King school in Florida recollects how he and his classmates ran outside immediately after the explosion and saw pieces of debris falling from the sky. The Challenger exploded January 28, 1986. NASA had arranged for many schools to watch the blastoff live, in part because a schoolteacher, Christa McAuliffe, was onboard the shuttle.