Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

[ob]

Ballykelly really struck home as the Cheshire’s were our local regiment, also one of the reasons I joined up. Sorry about your friend.

Thanks mate, horrible sad times

 

[bennyboy]

Another horrible one was The Milltown Cemetery attack.
Michael Stone running amok at a funeral and the army lads at another funeral a few days later.
Can remember watching on the news both funerals thinking even for the troubles this is as low as it can get.
I also believe Stone got released as part of the Good Friday agreement.

 

[mackenzie]

Too many to be honest, difficult to choose just one

 

[ob]

Another horrible one was The Milltown Cemetery attack.
Michael Stone running amok at a funeral and the army lads at another funeral a few days later.
Can remember watching on the news both funerals thinking even for the troubles this is as low as it can get.
I also believe Stone got released as part of the Good Friday agreement.

Another awful event in our history

 

[dublinblue12]

Oasis: Knebworth

 

[BlueHammer85]

 

[Rory Bluelow]

So many to pick from….Got to be Moon Landing, the Twin Towers 9/11 plus watching the start of the first Iraq War.
Some awful footage from the Troubles, Vietnam War, break-up of Yugoslavia all shown in detail on TV….don’t think that would happen now. Live Aid was a big day and very memorable too.

 

[aguero93:20]

I was at university during the O.J. Simpson white Bronco car chase and following trial. It was wall to wall media and it was all that we watched and talked about. It was the first time that we had rolling 24 hour news.

FOC. We had Raoul Moat instead, that was some session watching that unfold.

 

[aguero93:20]

I think you will find he admitted to Oprah Winfrey he had taken Performance Enhancing Drugs.

PEDs or no PEDs, cycling all the way to the moon was a great achievement.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

I was well fucked off the night it started.
I was watching the highlights of an FA Cup game on TV. Everton v someone.
Halfway through the programme was cut and CNN replaced it showing the shelling of Baghdad. I turned on the other 3 channels and all of them were showing the same footage.
I went back to ITV in the hope the game would come back on - they could have said "for continued viewing of this please turn to C4" but they didn't.
An hour later I gave up and went to bed pissed off.

I remember being shocked at the scud attacks on Tel Aviv and Riyadh. I just couldn’t get my head around the fact that some mad **** would do that (I was 17 at the time)….