Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

[Bluemanc100]

Not sure anything will top 9-11…

I was part of an RAF Regiment Rapier Sqn at the time and the whole Sqn ended up in the tea bar watching events unfold.. Surreal

Funnily that afternoon we were put on high alert

 

[JRockBlues]

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.

Or the earlier bombings in '92 where there were 2 smaller explosions. I used to work in offices in Parsonage Gardens where the first one went off but fortunately we'd moved onto Cross Street a year or so earlier. There were supposed to be more devices dotted around the city centre as everybody was evacuated with police coming into our building telling us we had to leave.

 

[normskih]

Most momentous in a bad way - 09/11 and the events that have snowballed since.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Covid pandemic

9-11
The insane Brexit vote
Nick Clegg twattery
John Lennon murdered
Falklands invasion

 

[urban genie]

1995 - the imtroduction publicly and future rise of the internet, that has truly affected the whole world.

 

[RobMCFC]

I think that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be the event with the most far-reaching consequences.

 

[BimboBob]

Moon landings.
3 day week.
9/11
Diana car crash.
Aguero moment.
Death of the Queen.

Probably watching 9/11 unfold in my office before going home and watching the outcome. Surreal really with no clue what was happening for a while before it dawned.

 

[PinkFinal]

The first news event I remember is Nixon resigning.

Elvis dying
Lennon assassination
Sutcliffe being caught
Falklands
Diana death
9/11

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Has no one mentioned when Dzeko scored number 6 at the score board end in 2011? An earthquake in footballing terms which the rags have never really recovered from.

 

[wahablue]

Armstrongs giant step for man,mankind.