Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

[bluethrunthru]

I remember Shock and Awe but wasn't overly worried coz Saddam was an outlier in reality - I remember the Russians getting their arses kicked in Afghanistan - recently the Queens passing was huge but on review I think for me number two was Live Aid and one was the fall of the Berlin Wall - it was started the week I was born and just seemed a fixture forever. I remember being out working sat in a Citroen AX oddly enough outside Leigh RLFC and listening on the radio to reports that made me think " fuck this is it ! As I say I thought it was an immovable East West divide and I was tingling when I got out of the car - will never forget that

 

[oakiecokie]

I remember Shock and Awe but wasn't overly worried coz Saddam was an outlier in reality - I remember the Russians getting their arses kicked in Afghanistan - recently the Queens passing was huge but on review I think for me number two was Live Aid and one was the fall of the Berlin Wall - it was started the week I was born and just seemed a fixture forever. I remember being out working sat in a Citroen AX oddly enough outside Leigh RLFC and listening on the radio to reports that made me think " fuck this is it ! As I say I thought it was an immovable East West divide and I was tingling when I got out of the car - will never forget that

Should the headline read "event" and not "even" ?

 

[bluethrunthru]

Should the headline read "event" and not "even" ?

fahkin sticky key ta

 

[oakiecokie]

I suppose for me it would have to be the Twin Towers as I saw the second plane go into the other tower via the tv Sky US News link, as I was watching it live.
Horrible horrible day.

 

[city2]

For me there are 2 things, Concorde on fire and the two soldiers who got caught at a IRA funeral live on tv getting murdered absolutely horrific scenes

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I would say the Berlin Wall coming down or the release of Nelson Mandela.










3rd - my appearance on Eggheads.......

 

[mexico1970]

Easily the moon landing for me.

 

[TonyM]

For me in Ireland

1. Italia 90
2. The Good Friday agreement
3. The pope's visit

 

[TonyM]

Internationally for me

1. Soviet Collapse (end of real WW3 fears at the time)
2. Chernobyl (incredible to think of a real nuclear disaster)
3. Trumpism (it's changed reality and morality and led us back to possible WW3)

 

[MadchesterCity]

If we’re talking news events Aguero, Covid, Twin towers or Diana death probably

 

[TonyM]

Ya covid was sorta a big deal alright. Not least for me losing my man boobs and having a nice flat stomach. It's a balls that lock down ended and I'm a fat **** again.

 

[Shirley]

Football related has to Hillsboro, Bradford and Heysel.
Non football those beheadings by that isis mob, truly horrendous.

 

[Blue and true]

Has to be 9/11.

 

[Koniec]

Easily Fall of Berlin Wall. My grandad unfortunately died 2 weeks before it and never got to see his country freed. I did get to vandalise Checkpoint Charlie though in 2012.

 

[flook]

moon landing (though I was too young to notice)
9/11
Berlin Wall
Russia invasion of Ukraine

 

[KS55]

The launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. The start of the space age. To boldly go…..

 

[give it to gordon]

1, Aguerooooooooo

2, Mad eyed screamer being on egg heads.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

9/11 the Most horrific event I’ve ever seen,to this day it still haunts me,I hope I never see anything like it again.

 

[Saddleworth2]

1. 9/11 the world changed that day
2. Berlin Wall coming down
3. Kennedy assassination

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Definitely 9/11. I was in school and I remember it vividly.

We had a family holiday in New York 6 months later too. Was amazing how quickly the rebuild operation was conducted. New Yorkers don’t fuck about.