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

since the day i was born, many things have happened the world over.

wars

disasters

happy events

and so on.

however, there are only 3 i can remember where i was when it happened.

Diana dying: i woke up, at my nan's, after a night shift to see the news on the tv. i thought i was still dreaming

Twin towers (9/11): i was coming to terms with my nan dying the day before, so was already in a low mood when, again, saw the pictures of teh 2nd plane hitting on the news

and

Hillsborough: i was in a bric a brac shop in madely (anyone who knows telford, halfway up the hill on the high street. used to be someones front room lol) and the woman behind the counter said 'oh my god!' and i turned to see the pictures of people being carried onto the pitch.

what can you remember where you were for?

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"since the day i was born, many things have happened the world over.

wars

disasters

happy events

and so on.

however, there are only 3 i can remember where i was when it happened.

Diana dying: i woke up, at my nan's, after a night shift to see the news on the tv. i thought i was still dreaming

Twin towers (9/11): i was coming to terms with my nan dying the day before, so was already in a low mood when, again, saw the pictures of teh 2nd plane hitting on the news

and

what can you remember where you were for?"

In order... John Lennon getting shot, Hillsborough, Diana dying, Twin Towers

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

I was on my way home from a night out when the cab driver had it radio through that Diana had been in an accident but I didn't know she had died till the next day.

9/11 I was getting ready for work in the pub when my boss shouted down for me to turn the TV on and I watched it all day in between serving customers.

My memory is terrible though..

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

I can remember Elvis dying, Hillsborough, the Bradford fire, Diana dying, the Twin Towers and the London Bombings and also the bombing in the park when Sefton the Horse was killed, one of the first times the IRA used nail bombs, ooo and just remembered the first Gulf war - all very sad times

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

i dont mean remembering them happening, but what you were doing/where you were.

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

"i dont mean remembering them happening, but what you were doing/where you were."

I know where I was for all of them

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

I was watching tv in bed early in the morning when it was announced that Diana had been in a car accident in Paris

And 9/11 I was in a horrendous motorway accident near Oldham lol

It took them neatly an hour to cut me out and In the hospital strapped down in case I'd broken my neck I watched a tv constantly playing footage of the planes crashing into the towers

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

Still on a meet with radio playing when diana died...and in labour when 9/11 happened

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

I was on holiday in Devon with my grandparents when Diana died. Me and my grandfather used to go get the morning paper together, so it was pretty early.

I was in English when 9/11 happened. My welsh teacher came running in saying to put the tv on. We all saw the second plane crashing

I was in my dads pub in slough when 07/07 happened. My brother and dad had gone into London. My mum who was in wales and I couldn't get through to them coz lines were jammed (like what happens NYE). My mum was hysterical and I couldn't help her or comfort her, which is why I think that sticks out in my mind so much.

Lauz x

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

It's interesting that nobody is yet to mention 7/7, I can barely remember 9/11 at the time, only remembering that I was sat in a school class. 7/7, I was just walking through the front door of the large corp that I worked for and it was all over the news, a crowd of people had gathered to watch as things unfolded...

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

JFK being shot, was a young lad on a camping trip in wales with the boys brigade.

John Lennon, was in a pub in Nottingham town centre.

Diana, I was driving a coach from Nottingham Uni, full of students on the way to Heathrow.

9/11, Still on coaches, in the depot after getting back from a trip to Val D'isere with a ski party.

7/7 driving a truck from UK to Athens, just got off the ferry in Calais so was still getting English radio

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

I also remember when I was walking to school when I was 10 feeling the ground shake and hearing a massive bang and not knowing till I got to school and we were all sent home that the marines barracks had been bombed, a 15 minute walk away from where I was at the time.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

a few...

diana,

9/11,

hillsborough,

7/7 (funny enough how many people remember the day before 7/7 was the day london won the olympic bid!),

the first iraq war starting (right in the middle of midweek sports special on itv.. chelsea vs tottenham was on and the arsenal game was up next)

nelson mandela,

the pope.. both jp and benedict!!

obama becoming president....

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

a few...

diana, woke up at 7am after the night before out.. was opening up the carphone warehouse shop i was working in... 3 customers in all day

9/11, 1st day working for american express... got called into an office after the 2nd plane went it.. given the rest of the day off

hillsborough, was at the Arsenal vs newcastle game at highbury... 2nd half of that game was played in silence with the exception of a transistor radio so we could hear what was happening...

7/7 (funny enough how many people remember the day before 7/7 was the day london won the olympic bid!), actually had the day off... got a phone call from mum to say she was okay and GOSH (Great Ormond Street) was being turning into a trauma centre.... i was phoning her with radio updates.... also in contact with my dept at GNER and volunteered to go in that afternoon to help

the first iraq war starting (right in the middle of midweek sports special on itv.. chelsea vs tottenham was on and the arsenal game was up next)

nelson mandela, here......

the pope.. both jp and benedict!!

obama becoming president.... on a website before this one explaining what every result basically meant and answering all election questions......

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

Diana dying was right at the start of mine and Mrs liddy's relationship, we had just spent our first night together and woke up in the morning turn the telly on to see the news, Mrs liddy thought it was a wind up, turns out the night before was the night our daughter was created

9 11 I was at work when a driver came in and said something had happened we spent the rest of the afternoon sat in a cab of a wagon listening

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

oooh, nearly forgot this one ... hillsborough, i drove one of the Nottm Forest supporters coachs that day, although not in the ground, i was there.

very sad day

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

Diana dying... at a health suite at bletchley leisure centre where the tv was on in a relaxation space

Twin towers.... picking up my son from the childminders early as we were going out for tea

Hillsborough ... I didn't see until later on..

I also remember being in a Martins newsagent when the radio said Freddie Mercury had died

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

diana died on my birthday .. i was in basingstoke shopping centre with people crowding round an electrical shop watching planes crashing into the twin towers on the tvs in the window ...... on a lighter note .. i was with minxie when nothing unusual happened at all

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

i remember where i was when iraq, take one started. columbine, Oklahoma city bombing, first twin towers bombing, mother Teresa dying, 9/11, 7/7, diana, lockerbie, the fall of the berlin wall, waco, the challenger explosion, as well as some rather large natural phenomena like mt st helens, the san francisco earthquake, etc.

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

Diana, dying I was In a d*unken sleep to be woken by my friend calling saying "she's dead she's dead"

7/7 I was had a few friends round for coffee and we were all squeezed onto the sofa watching the tv whilst I was trying to get hold of my sister who lived in NYC whose husband worked in the twin towers

Hillsborough I had a Saturday job on market stall and we had the radio on and we were just stood listening and wTching the radio in despair, whilst we were packing up. This was the same for the zeebrugge disaster.

7/7 was sat breast feeding my youngest child who was days old just remembering feeling absolutely gutted as I watched the terror on the tv

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"i dont mean remembering them happening, but what you were doing/where you were."

Lennon - registration at school, age 12, mate had heard it on news, teacher couldn't do register as we were all talking about it...Hillsborough - out on works day/night out in Blackpool, came on news when we were in rooms, Diana - house and dog sitting for friends, husband rang and told me to put the telly on...glued to it for several hours...9/11 - came home from work at lunch, stuck telly on and the news was just starting to come through

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

9/11 - Came home from school to see it played on the news. We just got Cable and remember saying at the naïve age of 9 "I never knew they existed". The next day was a 2 minute silence to 9/11 and another 1 minute silence to the death of one of my school peers. She died of complications from Diphtheria

Queen Mother's Death - Was talking to my mum about her, when it then became breaking news that she died.

7/7 - The London bombings. Was in an English lesson that was being delayed due to the panic from the ongoing events. I hardly helped matters knowing my mum doesn't work in London, and tried my best to sympathize, but got told to shut up. Our PE teacher got off 1 stop before the bus exploded.

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By *eeree70Woman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Falklands war - vaguely

Diana & Charles wedding

Diana's death

9/11

Queen mums death

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By *ScotsmanMan
over a year ago

ayrshire

i was at home with family when Nigel farage and his security were cruelly attacked near Glasgow

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

Cyclone Tracy devastating the city of Darwin

Floods in Brisbane (1974)

Elvis' death

John Lennon's death

President Reagan being shot

First space shuttle flight

Pope John Paul 2nd being elected and attacked

The Falklands War

The so-called 'Jupiter Effect' of 1982

Space Shuttle Challenger exploding

'Black Wednesday' - stock market crash of 1987

The Berlin Wall coming down

Lockerbie plane crash

Nelson Mandela's walk of freedom

First Gulf War

Dianna's death - I had to work that day

9/11 - ironing in the front room

7/7 - driving to my friend's house

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By *otTheReal01Man
over a year ago

London

9/11 - Was on a plane from Sydney to Singapore. Watched it unfold on a TV in the transit lounge at Singapore before getting back on the plane to carry on to London.

7/7 - Was thankfully not on early shift that day or I'd have been on the tube right at Edgeware Road when that bomb went off.

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Lennon shot - remember my mum being in pieces.

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster- was living in Sandwich at the time where the captain lived. Lots of phone calls to check if people were ok

Hillsborough - was watching the match with then fiancé. Thought it was pitch invasion at first then saw CPR being done on some and medics/police on pitch. Awful

Fall of the Berlin Wall - saw on news with family. Mum n dad crying as they remembered it going up and the heartbreaking scenes of ppl being shot going over it. I said to my dad communism would fall. He dismissed me but I was right. At least in Europe.

First Gulf war being declared - was worried my dad would be sent but he wasn't

Diana - was in car with then husband on way to supermarket. Dj we were listening to was known for sick jokes so we didn't believe it till we saw papers in tesco

9/11 - at home, my daughter was taking her first steps. We were at cranwell at the time. Sirens went n husband called to say he didn't know when he'd be home that night. His job then was prepping admin for forces going overseas. Was worried uk was gonna be hit same day and that we'd be a target due to type of base it was.

7/7 - best friend had recently moved to London n her n her fiancé worked city centre. Worried sick till I finally got hold of her.

Obama elected- cried as it was such a huge thing. Plus I liked him as a politician, still do.

Amazing what you remember.

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

Dunblane school massacre - was still at school myself & its the day before my birthday so will always remember.

Diana - remembering waking up in my pals house with her mum being upset.

9/11 - started a new job that day.

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

9/11 It was my second day off of three, I was working at Gatwick Airport and switched on the news yo watch it all unfold.

Dianas death I heard about when I got home from college.

Hillsborough incident I was found out about it when I was playing pool in a local pub.

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

It was my 14th. birthday and I was on a family vacation visiting relatives in Tuscon, Arizona when the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon.

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

9/11. Working in Oxford, spare driver that day. 7/7 about to take a coach load of national express passengers to London. When I had a phone call cancelling the run to london.

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