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Which of the following (from the last 30 years) is most memorable? |
John Lennon shot (1980) |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
Live Aid (1985) |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (1986) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
Berlin Wall taken down (1989) |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
Nelson Mandela released (1990) |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
Death of Princess Di (1997) |
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21% |
[ 12 ] |
Twin Towers destroyed (2001) |
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61% |
[ 34 ] |
Boxing Day Tsunami (2004) |
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5% |
[ 3 ] |
Barack Obama elected US president (2009) |
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5% |
[ 3 ] |
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waynec LifeTime Member
Age: 46 Zodiac: Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 1882 Location: Pembrokeshire
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 19:31 Post subject: |
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Def the Twin Towers - I was in Lanzarote at the time with the misses - we were walking down the strip of Porta dela carman and there were pictures everywhere on the TVs in the shops, so went into a bar and asked the barman what had happened - thats when he said.
Cardiff airport was a different place when we got back to when we left 2 weeks earier. |
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petelgv1 *****
Age: 52 Zodiac: Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Posts: 835 Location: cambridge
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 20:21 Post subject: |
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For me it has to be the death of Princess Diana. I was absolutely gutted, she did more than the rest of them royals.
2nd is the Twin Towers...... I have since visited the site,.......what a creepy place. |
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Stoxy LifeTime Member
Age: 48 Zodiac: Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 772 Location: Tynemouth, North East England
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 0:05 Post subject: |
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The spookiest thing has just happened and left a tingle!
I submitted my vote for Diana and a second after pressing the submit button, a picture of Diana's coffin on the cart appeared on the TV screen.
It appears on channel 4+1 there is some documentry about Dodi but it just spooked me and the better half out! |
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Richie LifeTime Member
Age: 24 Zodiac: Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 9445 Location: Away
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:13 Post subject: |
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memorable event in the last 30 years? ...
Stoky buying a round at donnington |
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REVOGEL LifeTime Member
Age: 84 Zodiac: Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 4276 Location: Cent. Amelias. Reg 10. Guyana South America
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:39 Post subject: |
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Has to be Di for me [and I'm basicly a Republican] Simply because the Americans made so much fuss, about the first major bombing on their own soil, [ yeah I know it was damn awful] and yet funded the IRA when they were Bombing London and it hardly got in the papers in the States. I was less than 1/4 af a mile away when the Bishopsgate bomb went off. West Side of Liverpool St. Station. |
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Dave 1962 LifeTime Member
Age: 61 Zodiac: Joined: 01 Sep 2003 Posts: 560 Location: Portsmouth
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:32 Post subject: |
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As a hugh F1 fan the day Ayrton Senna Died will stick with me as that event was live on TV
From the list it has to be the Death oh princess Di but im sure all the others will stick out in my mind as well. the funny thing is i know exactly where i was and what i was doing on each of those events, Spooky that |
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nitroboss *
Age: 43 Zodiac: Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 32 Location: nowhere
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 13:05 Post subject: |
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Hmm.... don't remember the first one, wasn't born
Twin towers for me too... |
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SID73 Events rep (National)
Age: 54 Zodiac: Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 1237 Location: Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffs
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 14:57 Post subject: |
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Twin towers is mine I was installing Vsat systems around London and can remember the whole of Peckham becoming very quiet whilst people were whatching the chiiling footage
Got back to the digs and looked up into the sky to see one of the most awsome sights. Dozens and dozens of planes circling over heathrow airport waiting for landing clearance |
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pajette **
Age: 35 Zodiac: Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 95 Location: devon
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 15:24 Post subject: |
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twin towers for me too |
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Fleebz **
Age: 55 Zodiac: Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 66 Location: Colchester
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 20:26 Post subject: |
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Boxing Day Tsunami for me, although I remember watching the Shuttle launch in my maths class at school, we were all over excited and then sat there and watched it explode, there was dead silence and then lots of tears, my maths tutor was fantastic, how he managed to comfort a group of 25 kids calmly I really don't know. |
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Mo Khan ****
Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 282 Location: Littleborough & Saddleworth
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:09 Post subject: |
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Twin towers.........get a reminder everytime i watch an American movie with a shot of News York skyline or long shot over the water. |
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V6 Barry Newbie
Age: 39 Zodiac: Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Posts: 1 Location: SW1, London
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:23 Post subject: |
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Princess Diana for me as the most poinant, although all along with others are very memorable sadly.
Only recall this one more so as not only living very close to Buckingham & Kensington Palace, I recall the sight (and fragrance) of the immense floral tributes laid at that time, but she was truly a remarkable person and figure in the world, and even now she has passed, still has a lasting legacy that goes on in her own right and that of her children. |
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RurieLad **
Age: 61 Zodiac: Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 64 Location: Jockland
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 13:38 Post subject: |
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Twin Towers for me - its my birthday! |
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grumpy brown LifeTime Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 113 Location: Essex
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 15:10 Post subject: |
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Twin towers . Just got back from the doing the final paperwork for my Divorce. Had mates working in there ! Spent a long time on the phone making sure they were ok . Which they were. I had also walked past them with my sons two weeks before. Have photos of the towers taken from the empire state building.
I would also add to this list the first man on the moon.
Watched it at school on a big pull down screen with the rest of the school .
So much hope that the world was moving forward due to this event. Me thinks something has gone a little wrong. |
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grumpy brown LifeTime Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 113 Location: Essex
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 15:13 Post subject: |
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DOH
Done it again. First man on the moon 1969 .
I will stand in the corner again with the big D hat on. |
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