Where were you on December 20, 2005?

By Matt Young

Where were you on December 20, 2005? I was in Cusco, Peru, …

Cathedral
Cusco Cathedral.

… with a handful of others, when we entered a hotel, foraging for coffee. Immediately, a copy of the day’s Times Digest bearing this headline …

Newspaper clipping
Article in the New York Times by Laurie Goodstein on December 20, 2005.

… or some approximation thereto positively leaped off a table and into my hand, and screamed, “We won in Dover!”

Where were you that day? What were you doing when you heard the news? Let us know in the comments.