Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

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.
 
bennyboy said:
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.
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Another awful event in our history
 
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.
 
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Snape said:
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.
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FOC. We had Raoul Moat instead, that was some session watching that unfold.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
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.
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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)….
 
9/11 - don't think anything will come close,

personal one was I was working and was a witness / victim of the May 22nd arena attack, most horrific thing i've witnessed and been involved in ever and hopefully no one ever goes through what happened that night
 
Assassination of President Kennedy
Fall of Berlin Wall
Falklands invasion
9/11
First men on the moon.
Concorde trans Atlantic service started.
Gulf wars.
Vietnam war
Afghanistan war.
 
9/11 for me without a shadow of a doubt. I was working at a radio station at the time and will never forget how we heard rumours of a small plane accidentally crashing into something in New York to it being a full on major event. Watching it on the TV as it happened was like nothing else and I genuinely felt scared as my Mum and Dad were on holiday in the Canaries. If you had told me it was aliens invading earth, I'd have believed you in that day. The world changed that day, no question.

Chernobyl - I was only a kid at the time, but the fact something so far away in Russia was causing problems in Wales scared me. I remember that breaking and getting the fear that there was a silent, invisible 'killer' around and it felt very scary at the time. I remember stupid things like my Mum getting a "bargain" on Oldham market of half a lamb for pennies and my Dad going mad when she brought it home and he wouldn't even have it in the bin and went to the tip with it as he was scared about radiation from it (it was a Welsh lamb).

Covid in Italy. Back in January(?) 2020 I saw a video of what looked like a military convoy going through Bolsano and someone said they were taking bodies out of hospital that had died of this new virus. I dismissed it at the time as "fake news" and wasn't worried about this new virus as we'd heard about them and they never affected us. I remember seeing it again and the dawning fear that came on me that this was real, was coming and I was completely unprepared for it. Soon after, a friend of mine in Madrid sent me a video of people locked in their apartment blocks and just getting the chills, it shook me to the core as it felt so... alien.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
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.
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When Princess Diana died, I was staying at my grandma's and I'd just finished my paper round and wanted to watch some kids TV. The TV was full of it, so I put my Beavis and Butthead video on. When my grandma got up, I told her Diana had died, and for about 30 minutes, she assumed I was talking about some stupid Beavis and Butthead plot. When she realised it was real, she made me turn it off so she could watch the news. Boooo.
 
9-11 the day the world changed and for the very worst.

It made even more personal for me when 2 months earlier I was visiting NY and the towers. New York was and is my favorite place on earth.

Even today the events of that day give me shivers.
 
mexico1970 said:
Easily the moon landing for me.
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Yep, me too.

I'm a bit obsessed with space stuff, but in my opinion that first step on another world is, and will always be, the most significant moment in human history.

We will surely travel to the stars over the next few thousand years, a journey that began on 20th July 1969.
 
The only one that could have had direct horrific consequences for every person on the planet had it worked out differently was the Cuban missile crisis, and it very nearly happened on 27 October 1962 as a result of the USS Beale and Soviet B-59 Foxtrot submarine incident.
 
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