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What's been the most significant historical event in your lifetime
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I could judge long term significance, but the ones I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing are
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Death of Princess Diana
9/11
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m not sure if this happened during my lifetime
But I think one of the most significant scientific events ever is probably the realisation that the earth is a doomed planet and that humanity must escape its confines to stand any chance of survival…
And on that cheerful note,,,, I'll be packing my case....and awaiting the motherships return to whisk me off back to my home planet…..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The IRA bombings, Jamie Bulger and Hilsborough, Live Aid and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the death of Freddie Mercury and Princess Diana, 9/11, Internet, Drone Bombers and nationwide paedo witch-hunts lol |
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By *eareenaCouple
over a year ago
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"For me 9/11 is a day I'll never forget."
for me too and the days leading to the Iraqi war... it was tough being an american living here during that time. I was sad fir my culture and embarrassed by it too. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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Mandela walking out of the prison
Elvis & Princess Di passing
9/11
my mum's suicide
Arriving in the USA to live and getting into an automatic car at the airport and looking a twat when I had no fucking clue, had to go in and ask the lady to show me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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9/11 ...was on phone wishing my dad a happy birthday
the zeebrugee ferry disaster....dad was due home on that weekend ...was due on that ferry but missed it by 10 minutes ...but we spent the next few hrs worried to death cus he couldnt get to a phone |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was born in 1957 when Rock n'roll was born, was a school kid when heavy and prog rock was born, was a teenager during glam rock, was a yoof during punk years,
I've lived through wars on most continents, have seen Presidents elected and some assassinated,
I've seen massive advances in human rights
I've witnessed advances in technology that's gone from slide rules to computers
There are loads more that deserve a mention but someone else can have a go
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"9/11 ...was on phone wishing my dad a happy birthday
the zeebrugee ferry disaster....dad was due home on that weekend ...was due on that ferry but missed it by 10 minutes ...but we spent the next few hrs worried to death cus he couldnt get to a phone"
I had forgot the zeebrugee ferry disaster  |
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"What's been the most significant historical event in your lifetime"
Apart from my own birth, I nominate the 'Long March through the Institutions' (sic) of Britain by communists/fabians that began during the Unnecessary War (as Winston Churchill called the 'Second World War') but came to manifest in earnest to the naked eye c. 1976 resulting in the (now fully accomplished) total degradation of Britains institutions and society which having once been the envy of the world are now its laughing-stock. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The tragic events that took place aboard The Piper Alpha,,,,,The Ocean Odyssey .... and The Alexander Kielland
All played a significant part in shaping my personal history
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"I was born in 1957 when Rock n'roll was born, was a school kid when heavy and prog rock was born, was a teenager during glam rock, was a yoof during punk years,
I've lived through wars on most continents, have seen Presidents elected and some assassinated,
I've seen massive advances in human rights
I've witnessed advances in technology that's gone from slide rules to computers
There are loads more that deserve a mention but someone else can have a go
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this.. 
by a Cpl of years..
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I will never forget seeing Simon Western on TV as a kid, I was little bit scared but then learnt the story of the Falklands and he inspired me to do the job I do today.
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"Had a quick read through lots of good ones - Kennedy mentioned. No mention of the Moon Landing, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Sorry folks - Diana does not raise a blip on my radar."
Have a look at the first one.
Houston The Eagle has landed.  |
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By * Jay69Man
over a year ago
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"Had a quick read through lots of good ones - Kennedy mentioned. No mention of the Moon Landing, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Sorry folks - Diana does not raise a blip on my radar.
Have a look at the first one.
Houston The Eagle has landed. "
Damn - missed it twice! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Death of Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana and 9/11 "
9/11, the 2004 Tsunami and the fall of the Berlin Wall were momentous, world changing events.
The death of Lady Di was sad but irrelevant in comparison. |
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"For me 9/11 is a day I'll never forget.
Yeah.. Watching The Second Tower LIVE on the telly was a Biggie for us.. "
Yeah that's something I'll never forget I'd had the day from hell with my newly adopted daughter and finally had some peace from 5 hours constant crying I'd flopped on the bed flicked on the tv literally seconds before it hit. Certainly put my problems at that time into perspective  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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7/7 London bombings... I changed my train time and just missed the Tavistock Sq bomb by ten mins.
The coalition govt coming into power... My job went thanks to them...
9/11...
Dianas death
Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson dying
The channel tunnel
Concorde coming... And going...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For me finding out my parents werent my parents i know we laugh an joke on here take the piss thats good i love my adoptive parents to bits they were my grandparents fantastic people my eldest sister turned out to be my real mum ive had a beer i needed to say it take the piss or whatever i really dont give a shit im not the only person in this position if any one else is in this position im sorry mail me an maybe we can help each other |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The sinking of the Sir Galahad. Had to wait 2 days to find out if my ex was dead or alive. Was missing presumed dead. Lost some good friends .
Dianas death
Twin towers
Aberfan disaster.
Positive ones.
My kids. (turned me grey)
Meeting my darling Dave.
My grandkids
They have helped make me who i am today. Xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm saying the Falklands war.
As much as I hate my sperm donor (father) if he hadn't of made it back I wouldn't be here
9/11
7/11
Diana
IRA Manchester Bombing
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By (user no longer on site)
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"For me finding out my parents werent my parents i know we laugh an joke on here take the piss thats good i love my adoptive parents to bits they were my grandparents fantastic people my eldest sister turned out to be my real mum ive had a beer i needed to say it take the piss or whatever i really dont give a shit im not the only person in this position if any one else is in this position im sorry mail me an maybe we can help each other"
There's a lot more people in the same position than you would think... |
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At 6 yo I watched the state funeral of Churchill on TV.
At 10 yo the Apollo moon landings.
At some point in the early sixties air raid sirens sounded in London in the middle of the night. Not frightening for me because I didn't know what was going on but very worrying for the adults.
In the late 70's and early 80's it was being involved in NI and the Falklands.
In the late 90's the death of Diana made me realise just how far the establishment would go to stop Mohamed Fayed getting a UK passport.
Since then I've realised that the government:
Usually deny most strongly that which is true.(see next point)
Do deal with terrorists (Martin McGuinness, Nelson Mandela et al)
Lie like a cheap timex watch about anything, however trivial.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Houston The Eagle has landed.
The fall of the Berlin wall.
9/11
Live Aid"
The ones that spring to mind from my childhood/youth are 1. Tanks rolling into Prague 2. Space race/moon landings 3. Vietnam 4. Watergate scandal.
Not saying they are the most significant. Just ones that immediately spring to mind. |
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Death of Diana: the mass hysteria that followed was alarming.
9/11: the full impact of such evil was (still is) frightening.
Barack Obama elected America's first black president: a black man in the White House. Affirmation for our children to not accept glass ceilings and believe you can be anything you want to be. I felt almost as proud of Barack as watching my children in their gowns collecting their degrees. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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JFK's assassination - first time I saw my father cry. Not sure he would have made the world a better place, but he made us believe that he would, which was so good.
And then 1968- Robert K and MLKing....
All those riots
A bomb going off near Jaffa Gate (Jerusalem), seconds after my brother walked that way - took long hours before I knew he was safe.
Moon landing - stayed up and watched it live. Anwar Sadat laughing with Golda Meir - so much hope then. The Second Tower - realising it was real. And the development of the Internet - the sole reason we are here and can contact people we otherwise would never meet.
Good thread.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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9-11 international travel will never be the same
The aftermath of surreal public grief over Diana's death by people who the day before were astonishingly cruel about her.
Falklands (I went to school with a lot of naval officers' children)
Nelson Mandela walking free.
Tsunami in Thailand as my parents lived there and the water went through their downstairs- they phoned saying we're o...... And then nothing for 7days
The night before Op Telic 1. My ex was preparing to go over the border into Iraq and I didn't hear from her for 3 weeks due to comms shutdown.
Many many others
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By (user no longer on site)
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November 1989. Tim Berners Lee creates the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. Thus the modern World Wide Web was born.
I know many people are saying many other historical events, and I almost went with 9/11.
But honestly, in my lifetime, I struggled to find one other event which has touched almost the entire facet of humanity and all corners of the earth than the birth of the WWW.
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