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

Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

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By *aydee65Man
over a year ago

Near Merthyr

911 stands out for obvious reasons. I had a day off work and heard a radio news report that suggested that a light aircraft had accidentally flown into the North tower. I got home and put the news on and watched the horror unfold for a few hours.

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

"Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

Yes, Arsenal winning the league on the last game of the season at Anfield in 1989. A night and feeling I will never forget or match.

Football's and history's finest moment.

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Yes 911, was at work when somebody came in and said what was unfolding, we all rushed to the TV. Was in the Military so knew things were going to be "interesting" from then on

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Lots of things have happened in my life. From england winning the world cup, man on the moon the latest being the referendum and new prime minister.

I remember what i was doing when elvis died, john lennon, princess di, twin towers, 7/7 bombings.

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

911 was awful to watch it unfold ... was in Los Angeles at the time with friends flying ....

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Berlin Wall coming down on my birthday.

911 heard it on the radio in the car coming back from the hospital saying I had the all clear from the cancer

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

Sadly 9/11 for me too. I was in NYC at the time. It's was a primary election day and I was out working the polls. My sister was suppose to be in a meeting in the trade center. We spent hours trying to get in touch with her. It was a crazy time in my life.

Also when Obama was sworn in as president. I was in law school in NYC at the time. It was a real moment in history. Everyone gathered around the televisions to watch it. When we walked outside that day it felt like people everywhere were celebrating.

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By *emplarWarriorMan
over a year ago

Nottingham

Being born,

I still celebrate it every year

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By *igal17Man
over a year ago

Ayr SW Scotland

"I remember what i was doing when elvis died, john lennon, princess di, twin towers, 7/7 bombings. "

Same list for and adding Michael Jackson ( I was at Glastonbury)

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I remember my ex running in to say Diana was dead.

Can't remember where I was at 9/11 though I saw it unfold on TV

I was actually in the USA when Nixon quit though.

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

"Being born,

I still celebrate it every year

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

"Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

Yes, Arsenal winning the league on the last game of the season at Anfield in 1989. A night and feeling I will never forget or match.

Football's and history's finest moment.

End of thread

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that ball was still rolling when he took the free kick

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

"Sadly 9/11 for me too. I was in NYC at the time. It's was a primary election day and I was out working the polls. My sister was suppose to be in a meeting in the trade center. We spent hours trying to get in touch with her. It was a crazy time in my life.

Really, when it was 9/11 you would have been 16 or 13

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

Really, when it was 9/11 you would have been 16 or 13

My kids were very very young when it happened but it has still affected them ... who says something like that when it happens in your teens would have a massive impact?

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

Really, when it was 9/11 you would have been 16 or 13

I was 12. My father drove me down to the pier in Brooklyn and we watched the smoke and everything going on in Manhattan. My uncle was running for office and it was primary day so my whole family was out of school in order to work on the campaign.

My sister is 20 years older than me and works for a big bank in Manhattan. She didn't end up going to the meeting that day. She sent someone else in her place because she had too much work to do. She now blames herself for that person's death. You can't even mention it to her.

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

Really, when it was 9/11 you would have been 16 or 13

My kids were very very young when it happened but it has still affected them ... who says something like that when it happens in your teens would have a massive impact?"

In NYC out working the polls? Maybe I have misinterpreted what that means

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

Really, when it was 9/11 you would have been 16 or 13

Ah, must have been awful

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

Death of Diana Spencer ... odd because I'm in no way a royalist and wasn't a fan, but I remember vividly being semi-conscious at a party when I heard the news.

911 ... I was in my flat getting ready for work. I'm no great lover of America and I was always well aware of horrendous atrocities around the world before that, but in that moment I was conscious of the world becoming a different place. I cried intermittently for several days, I remember.

Falklands War ... I was in the sea cadets at the time and had my heart set on joining the RN, so I followed the whole thing avidly

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Fauklands war starting. I also remember when the black panther and yorkshire ripper where caught.

Margeret thatcher becoming prime minister. I remember exactly changing to new money. God im going to end up thinking about it all day

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

And Labour's election win in 97. I was on a working holiday sleeping on the floor, woke up to the news and thought, wow ... finally a caring socialist government. Oh the naivety

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

I remember what i was doing when elvis died, john lennon, princess di, twin towers, 7/7 bombings. "

Princess Di, I'd come home from a night club switched the telly on...and I'm greeted with news footage of her coffin at some air strip, quite surreal.. didn't quite

know whether to believe it or not

7/7 bombings trying to get in touch with a relative cause I knew they'd be on their way home, using public transport

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

"Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

Yes, Arsenal winning the league on the last game of the season at Anfield in 1989. A night and feeling I will never forget or match.

Football's and history's finest moment.

End of thread

that ball was still rolling when he took the free kick

No it wasn't

I can't believe people actually think there has been a bigger moment in their lifetime. They need to get out more

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

The Berlin Wall coming down sticks in my memory along with a lot of other people have mentioned

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

For World News I am going for the 1963 'I have a dream' speech Martin Luther King.

For home news I'm going for the 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech Enoch Powell.

and what we called decimalisation.... no one could convince me that the 'pound in my pocket' hadn't been devalued.

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

"Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

Yes, Arsenal winning the league on the last game of the season at Anfield in 1989. A night and feeling I will never forget or match.

Football's and history's finest moment.

End of thread

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

9\11

I was at home with my daughter she was only a month old, I remember thinking "what kind oif a world have I bought you into?"

7\7

I was in London at the time, and I was going through a bad time, almost suicidal, and for about half an hour, thought of running away, and hoping that everyone would just presume I was dead, then I saw what real human tragedy was, and got my head straight pretty sharpish, and stopped being dsuch a selfish prick

Princess Dianna

I heard the news at a car boot sale, I bought a news paper on the eweway home that said that Mr alfayad was dead, and Dianna was seriously injured, my ex wife has the paper

The release of Nelson Mandela

Sat and watched the news coverage with my friends, and my future wife (we weren't together at that time)

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

"Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

Yes, Arsenal winning the league on the last game of the season at Anfield in 1989. A night and feeling I will never forget or match.

Football's and history's finest moment.

End of thread

Fever pitch

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

1999 1 minute left to play... ole ole ole, ole ole!.

No retreat no surrender

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

I guess in terms of world events, it would be 9/11 that sticks in my brain most vividly (as it does a lot of people). I remember Bob Dylan released his latest album the day before (actually released on 9/11 in the States) and I was listening to the album when the news started to come in and the horror started to unfold on the tv. In the coming days lines from those new songs started to have an almost prophetic meaning...

"Well, I'm stranded in the city that never sleeps", "I'm avoidin' the Southside the best I can, these memories I got, they can strangle a man", "When I left my home the sky split open wide", "Some things are too terrible to be true", "Coffins droppin' in the street, like balloons made out of lead".

It was all very eerie. I don't think anyone could have predicted the events and chaos that would follow in the next decade and beyond, as a result of what happened that day. Whenever I listen to that album now I always think of those tv images and that day.

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

The Dunblane massacre. Sitting with my mum when it came on the news. A senseless heartbreaking tragedy

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

"The Berlin Wall coming down sticks in my memory along with a lot of other people have mentioned "

Oddly I don't have a vivid memory of what I was doing when that was news. Must've been wasted or something

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

9/11. I was in Ibiza on holiday and went downstairs to get some food while my bf at the time had a nap. I was alone and saw it on the news..I just sat watching with tears running down my face. I was scared because I knew I had to fly home and they were saying there was a high terror alert. Awful.

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

"For World News I am going for the 1963 'I have a dream' speech Martin Luther King.

For home news I'm going for the 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech Enoch Powell.

and what we called decimalisation.... no one could convince me that the 'pound in my pocket' hadn't been devalued. "

Wow, I bet I could listen to your memories for hours

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

The Hungerford massacre.

I remember being glued to the TV that night, it was shocking because it was done in a place that nobody would ever have thought it would happen.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"The Dunblane massacre. Sitting with my mum when it came on the news. A senseless heartbreaking tragedy

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i know exsctly what i was doing when that happened

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

The Challenger space shuttle explosion..as I was first broadcast by John Craven on Newsround..

9/11 I was at work and it all unfolded on the radio and it wasn't until I got home and saw the extent of what had happened hit me

Mandela being freed..absolutely glued to the TV..

And the 1977 Jubilee the hot summer and street parties..

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

Definitely 9/11..

I was working at a Business Travel Agency in Manchester city centre at the time and we all watched it unfolding on the business news channel .. we couldn't take it in, and at first thought it was some sort of a prank...terrible times

the IRA bomb in Manchester was another terrible event....

It went off at the Arndale and I was working across the city at the time.. the whole of Manchester city centre became a no go zone and I remember I had to walk 5 miles out of Manchester before I could get a bus home that evening...

the worst thing about that was all the scumbag thieves and liars who tried to claim that they had lost their giros and payment books because they had been told to evacuate the area (I was working for the BFIS at the time)

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

The Berlin Wall coming down, I was living there at the time, I was just about a teenager

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Dunblane. I was working as a Directory Enquiry operator at the time and saw the emergency number come up on the overhead screens. I asked a workmate what it was for and she told me. I still cry about it today.

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

Nope nope, I remember where I was for every event that has happened from the age of around 9, that's when I could watch the news I suppose. Don't like to recall things cos it dredges up a million other things.

I remember working in the jobcentre though when the London riots kicked off, remember an announcement saying do not book WIFI's in Tottenham Jobcentre, us saying why then being told it's been burnt down, ahh right! Then there were updates of all the other jobcentres being vandalised. Remember that night watching the national news and it showed London on fire then a clip of the regional news, meanwhile in wales, a rare snowdrop has been spotted in a residents garden, our reporter will be there live with the details, I remember thinking what a contrast!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

"For World News I am going for the 1963 'I have a dream' speech Martin Luther King.

For home news I'm going for the 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech Enoch Powell.

and what we called decimalisation.... no one could convince me that the 'pound in my pocket' hadn't been devalued.

Wow, I bet I could listen to your memories for hours

First hand knowledge is just one of the good things about having lived a while x

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By *oyce69Man
over a year ago

Driffield

9/11 for me too, had just got off the London Eye as it was unfolding on the radio, I believe they shut the eye shortly afterwards for a while.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Soviet coup attempt in '91

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Tienanmen Square

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

Newcastle getting relegated twice. Bad times.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

When 911 happened, I was called over to look at a news photo of the plane flying near the tower and I said 'that shouldn't be there' and later someone shouted 'New York's been attacked' and some people screamed. We did no work after that. It was very worrying.

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

Lockerbie

I was into planes as a teenager and was listening to pilots / atc on my air band radio at the time, including Clipper 103

Chills me to the bone to this day

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

Princess Diana.

It was the first (and last) time I saw the ex Mrs out of bed before lunchtime on a Sunday

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

Some IRA chaps came to blow up a changing of the guards ceremony once so the SAS shot them a 100 yards from my school that was a long day before they let us go home.

It was also burned into memory and history.

911 I was at Uni and working at an American company on Placement seeing colleagues with family was not very nice.

Sol Campbell moving to Arsenal will stick in a lot of people's minds football related

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

911 still chills me to my bone!! Was at uni - came home for lunch turned tv on and couldn't believe it - watched live as 2nd plane went into tower and the collapse of them both

Chilling!!!!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Is there a particular event in history that you have lived through which sticks in your mind, and where were you when that event took place..good or bad?

Losing my virginity

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

BUDDY HOLLY, Ritchie Valence and The Big Bopper being killed.

Certainly 'The day the music died'

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Crumpet Castle

My dad died in 2002. The whole family travelled to the East Coast for a holiday to recover. News of the Soham murders played over and over. I said I thought children were safe in villages. My daughter said No - villagers have small town mentalities. Cities can be safer at times.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Loads of things, highs and lows.

I remember Diana dying and not being able to reach my brother to tell him. He'd been a pap and he knew her.

9/11 was a horrible and shocking day, saw it on TV.

The 5-1 defeat of Germany by England in 2001. We were having a party with loads of friends round and my beloved cat took ill. Rushed her to the vets but she died

The Berlin wall coming down, saw it on TV

THE Greece game with Beckham's free kick, as a crowd we shouted and cheered for a good 10 minutes I'm sure.

The day John Lennon died, my Mum was shouting Lennon's dead and it took me a while to focus on what she meant.

Live Aid as I was lucky enough to go.

Loads more but can't think

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

"911 stands out for obvious reasons. I had a day off work and heard a radio news report that suggested that a light aircraft had accidentally flown into the North tower. I got home and put the news on and watched the horror unfold for a few hours."

I was sat at home feeding a 12 day old baby wondering what sort of world they'd been born in to. My in-laws were in USA & my grandparents on a flight to Mexico that day for a family wedding. GP's re-directed to Calgary in Canada for 3 days, in-laws were safe. Awful day though.

Another day for me is when a police station in Iraq was raided over Christmas 2006 - my brother's tank broke down enroute otherwise he'd have been killed with many of his friends

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