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By *allDarkFoxForYou OP Man
over a year ago

Winchester/London

What events in your lifetime have had such an impact on you that you can vividly remember the exact scenario surrounding when you heard the given news in your mind ?

For me 5 spring to mind -

1) News from the hospital that my beloved mum had passed

2) 9/11

3) Lady Diana's death

4) Jill Dando's murder

5) Kevin Keegan had signed for Southampton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dianna had died

Twin Tower attacks

I found out i was pregnant

The moment i gave birth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Challenger Disaster

The Great Storm of 1987

Thatcher's resignation

King's Cross Fire

7/7 bombings in London

9/11

To name a few.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"The Great Storm of 1987"

I knew that one because I was in it.

Not fun!

To the OP:

Dianas death

9/11

Dunblane

Berlin Wall coming down

Challenger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11

Jill dando

Lady dianas death

The disappearance of jennatte tate

The muder of baby pj I lost a son in birth and anyone to muder their own I have no sympathy with them sorry if this upset anyone xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Challenger Disaster

The Great Storm of 1987

Thatcher's resignation

King's Cross Fire

7/7 bombings in London

9/11

To name a few.

I'll see those six and raise you...

Elvis Presley's death

Grand Hotel bombing in Brighton

Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge)

ted.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We were in Thailand when the Tsunami came in. We were about 1 mile back from the coast so knew nothing about it until the morning. Many were not that lucky.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge)

ted."

I was on a college trip in Brussels and we caught the boat back before Herald. Some of my college mates waited for the next boat and was on that one. Didn't find out til I got back to college.

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

9/11 was shopping for stuff for my new flat I was living in at the time.

Diana was at my boyfriends house

7/7 was at work as training was cancelled...if I had gone to the training I would of been right in the middle of it..

One other event woke up and went that night went to bed no longer pregnant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some of the above and Elvis Death ! ... Gee I'm old !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

death of Jamie Bulger - my eldest was the same age as him

Diana

9/11 my cousin was in town when the towers came down

birth of my two sons

meeting on here of my wonderful lover

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Princess dianna died

My nanna had died

Twin towers

And Heath ledger dying. All really depressing. Although I also remember every detail of the evening when my husband first told me he loved me, which alway makes me smile

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My dad had cancer and wasn't going to survive

My dad's cousin had died

My ex had had an affair

I had Endometriosis

My mum had a new partner

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

9/11.... We Watched the Second Plane - Live on Telly in the PUB...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Challenger Disaster

The Great Storm of 1987

Thatcher's resignation

King's Cross Fire

7/7 bombings in London

9/11

To name a few.

I'll see those six and raise you...

Elvis Presley's death

Grand Hotel bombing in Brighton

Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge)

ted."

and i will raise you....

tell sid...pass it on.

buzzby.

ant milk brilliant.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Mostly ones already mentioned which I will repeat.

The passing of elvis, my great gran, John Lennon, my beloved grampa, Diana

Also zeebrugge, hillsborough, deal ira bombing, 1987 storm (right in middle of it), 9/11 (daughter had just taken first steps), 7/7 bombing (trying to calm a friend who's fiancé was believed on the train, he'd dropped his wallet n therefore missed it but we didn't know till much later that day)

More personally, tho only a twinge I knew I'd lost my 2nd pregnancy. Mum telling me she had breast cancer (almost 7 years clear)

Happy news, 3 family pregnancies that had followed on from cancer treatment and ivf courses. Mums all clear. Aunts all clear after years of leukaemia.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Elvis dying

John Lennon dying

Diana dying

9/11

Finding out I was pregnant

Mum and dad splitting up

Dad dying

Must be others

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By *lyce and Mister MCouple
over a year ago

Falkirk

Diana dying

9/11

7/7

Tsunami (boxing day)

Andy Murray winning Wimbeldon

Sadam Hussein being caught

Nelson Mandela being freed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

lady diana death .was travelling home from a club in northampton when we heard the news she was injured but not life threatening

.its also our wedding anniversary.

twin towers attack .went to the shops and came back to see the second plane hit the tower and i thought i was watching a film

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Derby County winning League Division 1 1972

Derby County winning League Division 1 1975

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By *lyce and Mister MCouple
over a year ago

Falkirk

I was poorly and had tonsilitis was lay on the couch in our highrise flat snoozing on and off with the news on. I thought I'd fallen asleep and woken up to a film, rang my Mum and said I was watching "some crap" on the TV, she told me it was real just as the second plane hit.......

Being in a highrise was scary !!

This was 9/11

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Princess Diana: on holiday in Devon with grandparents, in a newsagents

9/11: In English class. Our welsh teacher came running in to tell us to put the tv on.....just in time to see the second plane crashing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bradford City fire disaster

Hillsborough

Diana

9/11

I hope never to have to add to the list.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Diana giving birth to William - was in reception at hotel in Seychelles and it was written on big blackboard!!

Diana's death - woken up at 06.30 on the Sunday morning by mum who told me to put tv on

Hillsborough - was at work in bookies when we watched it unfold on monitors but punters still demanded their bets were taken

Elvis 's death - my first day in new job, was a very strange atmosphere!

Others too but those four had a big impact on my life

Gill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Winston Churchill had died

Marilyn Munroe had died

Jf kennedy had died

Diana Ross leaving the Supremes

(blimey I'm ooooold!!! )

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remember most of the above, 9/11 particularly as was in a job interview came out and all these people were watching it on the tv's in shop windows !!

The one for me though was the Iranian embassy siege in 1980, i was 8 and both my mum and i had chicken pox, the moment when the SAS went in and it was live and watched it all still sticks in my mind can remember it very clearly !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

7/7 I was on the train to London thinking o Christ not again

9/11 heathrow air port trying to find out what happened to my luggage I had just come back from New York with my brother

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember most of the above, 9/11 particularly as was in a job interview came out and all these people were watching it on the tv's in shop windows !!

I remember the embassy siege it was the first time I had seen the sas I was only 8 yo and I wanted to be in the sas so badly from then on but then I saw top gun and wanted to join the raf lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This is going to sound weird but I still haven't seen the footage of 9/11 I was at work and only had a radio to hear it, Diana dying I was in bed hungover

Personally the birth of both my kids I can tell you the time there weights even there head size lol, the day my mom died

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Remember most of the above, 9/11 particularly as was in a job interview came out and all these people were watching it on the tv's in shop windows !!

I remember the embassy siege it was the first time I had seen the sas I was only 8 yo and I wanted to be in the sas so badly from then on but then I saw top gun and wanted to join the raf lol"

Just re watched the footage on youtube and gave me goosebumps lol !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11

the london train bombings ( I lived in london and nearly got on that train.

finding out someone who was close to me had died a few yeas after he died by his son

maddie mccann going missing, I was pregnant with my son and it made me upset with the parents for being so selfish.

heath ledger dying.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge)

ted.

I was on a college trip in Brussels and we caught the boat back before Herald. Some of my college mates waited for the next boat and was on that one. Didn't find out til I got back to college.

Ruby has two personal friends whose husbands were both 'Herald' crew members. One swapped shifts with another guy and was on shore when it happened. The other was on board and was not so lucky.....

ted.

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11 - sat in a traffic jam listening to updates from Mark and Lard then Chris Moyles on Radio 1

Princess DI - woke up put the radio on and it was playing somber music with news bulletins every 10 mins

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Alderran got blown up, it was like a million voices all cried out at once.........

What a cheerful little thread

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

9/11

Was at home chopping fruit for a cake for a celebration and was sat on the sofa with mindless tv to keep me company as I worked my way through a few kilos of fruit.

Watched the whole thing from the 'just happening' with the first plane when they thought it was an accident and then the live shots of the second plane.

My fruit cake mix got a seasoning of salt as I cried into the bowl as I watched.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

most of the ones mentioned and the shootings in dunblane in 1996.

was in the kitchen listening to talk radio and got realy upset when i heard about all those little kids being killed, realy shocked.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11 was in the dentists

Princess Diana was playing truth or dare

Michael Jackson was abroad

I don't have a good memory so that's not too bad for me.

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By *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

I don't remember many of the above mentioned.

9/11 I remember sticking the tv on for 5 mins before going to work and saw it going on. When I got on the bus to work the driver asked me if I knew what was going on cos he just kept hearing bits and bobs. I worked in telesales and we got a lot of abuse on the phone that night!

7/7 I was just at home I think I might have been off sick. I was reading a forum and someone posted 'bbc news, now, I can't believe it' and then was glued to it. Vividly remember the images of the bus.

Diana died - my dad always had his radio on in his room first thing on a Sunday and of course it was all they were talking about.

Michael Jackson died - I was babysitting for a friend who happened to be a big MJ fan, she came home very late very d*unk sobbing and singing Bad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11 was in local shop heard on radio one of the teachers at my sons primary school lost her brother that day.

diana's death remember my son coming upstairs saying the pretty lady has died he was 4

7/7 my brother lived and worked in london took all day to find out if him and his girlfriend were safe. thankfully she went in early and my brother wasnt in work.

many other memorable events and all off which i know where i was when i heard it.

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By *ogistical NightmaresCouple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

9/11 I was in France, no TV and we onlt put the radio on first thing in the morning. I drove to the nearest town on the 12th and had radio 2 on and Terry Wogan made some comment about 'yesterdays tragic events'. I missed the 8 o'clock news and when I got back to the house my friend hadn't had the radio on. We went to a neighbours and asked them and we then found out what had happened. I still haven't seen the footage

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

Besides all the family stuff:

Elvis death - waiting for the school bus

Nelson Mandela being freed - going to get the Sunday papers

9/11 - was mid air when it was all happening, wondered why everyone was twitched when we landed at the airport and then saw it on the BBC website when i got into the office

Diana - watched the news reports coming in on the tv and at first I thought she had committed suicide. went into Manchester that night for a friends birthday and it was like a ghost town

IRA bombing in Manchester - just landed back off holiday, switched the phone on and wondered why I had 24 missed calls and my pager was going doolally

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Lockerbie bombing

Sinking of the Atlantic conveyor three days of hell waiting to here news of my brother who luckily survived but is not the same brother I once had

Hillsboro was watching Oldham when news came over the tannoy of the game being stopped

The death of Henri Toivenen & sergio crespo on the tour de course a moment that changed rallying forever and ended an era

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