Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

[Elbow beards]

Has to be 911 and COVID the main two but the SAS embassy seige has a special place in me heart, the first time the world was properly made aware of the special forces. Remember watching as a kid and being awestruck

 

[bluethrunthru]

we have had a lot going on this week but just 3 days ago was the 24th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. I remember it so well - it went up days after I was born and I recall listening to live radio reports in my Citroen AX outside Swinton RLFC on the day.
Still gives me goosebumps - and hope for humanity

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

For me in Ireland

3. The pope's visit

Which one?

the john paul visit in Galway racetrack, i was at.

I worked in Phoenix park and RDS gig in the last visit.

 

[ali benarbia's studs]

911 changed lots of things and only made warmongering more common.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Has to be 911 and COVID the main two but the SAS embassy seige has a special place in me heart, the first time the world was properly made aware of the special forces. Remember watching as a kid and being awestruck

Its funny how you remember this stuff - I am always aware of how people recall where they were when Kennedy dies (I was too young then) but 9/11 I recall I was driving home from Scarborough on the A170 near East Ayton when a work colleague rang me to say a light plane had hit the World Trade Centre. TBH I didn't know what the WTC was back then. We kept in touch as best we could given mobiles back then and the terrain but I got in just to see WTC 1 collapse - I was awestruck.

The Iranian Embassy Siege isn't that big for me as it occurred around a troubled time with terrorism in the UK so in some ways it was another one of those.

And Covid...... well i am still processing that as more info comes to light its also confusing for me as I took redundancy and a year out just before so I had sort of been through similar before however I am sure it will be a grower for me

 

[PragueBlue]

9/11, Covid and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.

 

[Summerbuzz]

Fall of the Berlin Wall, Good Friday Agreement.

Better times!

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962

A poker game that could have resulted in WW3

 

[BerkshireBlue]

For me it was the news of Jennifer Lawrence's fappening photo release.

 

[crooky]

For me it was the news of Jennifer Lawrence's fappening photo release.

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