Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

[aguero93:20]

9/11

Falklands

Diana

Shooting of kennedy

Michael jackson manslaughter

Ira terror during and the peace agreement

Covid

Could be here all day really

Spot the odd one out.

 

[stonerblue]

I'm so surprised no one has mentioned the dramatic event much closer to our homes that changed our local landscape. The bombing of the Mcr Arndale centre. I recall placing my ITV 7 on that Saturday morning and being in a local bookies when that bomb went off. Though I was about a couple of miles away the sound of the blast always remained with me.

You were in the bookies at 7am?

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

No mate. Vietnam was the first 'televised' war and the fact that American viewers saw everything whilst having their breakfasts eventually turned public opinion against the war.

I meant in depth, ie. 24hr round the clock coverage, not just televised.

 

[nw42]

You were in the bookies at 7am?

Happened after 11.00hrs

 

[Bill Walker]

My first thread.

 

[stonerblue]

I meant in depth, ie. 24hr round the clock coverage, not just televised.

I think the press were 'embedded' for that one. Had to be controlled by the army and got all their info from military press officers. Highly censored.

 

[stonerblue]

Happened after 11.00hrs

Yeah, just checked. I thought it went off earlier.

 

[kingdoneg]

You were in the bookies at 7am?

The blast went off around 11.00am

 

[unicorn]

The 1997 general election seemed pretty seismic at the time. I remember watching it happen, Portillo and all, in Singapore at a friend of Mrs Unicorn and having curry for breakfast.

 

[KS55]

I know this is in Off Topic, but the day ADUG took over City has to be up there for me. Glued to the TV screen and internet all day once the news started to break.

Genuine world wide event:CFG is changing the world of football.