Most momentous International event in your lifetime?

[unicorn]

The day Boris Johnson (belatedly) closed the pubs at the start of the Covid pandemic; the scale of it really sunk in then.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I suppose second plane flying into Twin Towers live on the news has to be up there.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Hard to decide between the time Newcastle handed Alan Pardew an eight year contract and City signing Wilfried Bony.

 

[TonyM]

Agree with No.1
I was behind the goal for the penalty shootout with Romania.
There were some scenes there that day after O’Learys scored.

The Pope’s visit was huge but can’t help feel that in hindsight the country was under mass hypnosis.
Never happened second time around.

I get what you mean about the Pope's visit. I was young and didn't want to watch it on TV and was nearly bate for it.

I got first hand experience of the hysteria of Ballinspittle

 

[KS55]

I would say the Berlin Wall coming down or the release of Nelson Mandela.










3rd - my appearance on Eggheads.......

Saw a joke the other day:
It’s called Eggheads because they could hardly call it “Smug Bastards.”

 

[KS55]

I would say The fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Centre because they both changed the world for ever.
Close up behind was the launch of Sputnik 1 for the same reason.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I get what you mean about the Pope's visit. I was young and didn't want to watch it on TV and was nearly bate for it.

I got first hand experience of the hysteria of Ballinspittle

Ah Ballinspittle.
I remember it well. Even back then I thought of it as a reinforcement of backward Ireland on the international (British) news channels.

I’d say the local hostelries did well out of it.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I get what you mean about the Pope's visit. I was young and didn't want to watch it on TV and was nearly bate for it.

I got first hand experience of the hysteria of Ballinspittle

Possibly the inspiration for the Miracle of Peckham (OFAH) which aired in 1986?

 

[Keith Moon]

The Chinese bat eating championship in Wuhan 2020.

 

[TonyM]

Possibly the inspiration for the Miracle of Peckham (OFAH) which aired in 1986?

Probably. It wa a crazy time. But also a great time if you were one of the lucky ones....which we were. At that time there was the terrible famines and Chernobyl a year later. But we were lucky and optimistic and fun and charitible and essentially good people (if a little deluded but what harm).

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

@Mad Eyed Screamer on eggheads.

Really? I never knew that.

You learn something every day.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Born in 88 myself, but I would have to go with

Covid Pandemic
The Queens passing
Princess Diana's passing

Below them, I think Brexit 9/11 and the 7/7 terrorist attacks are major to.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Wagner chief shot down, 23rd August 2023.

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

9/11

 

[Lavinda Past]

9/11
Death of Diana
JFK assassination
Fall of Berlin Wall
Aberfan
John Lennon assassination
Moon landing

 

[Bill Walker]

Really? I never knew that.

You learn something every day.

He likes to keep it too himself.

He shuns all forms of publicity.

 

[WestGorton]

9/11

 

[pride in battle]

Easily the moon landing for me.

F.O.C

 

[Bill Walker]

Covid shut the world down, no air travel, millions of deaths, lockdowns....Nobody allowed in or out of the country I live in.

Has to be that shirley.





Ohh shit, dumbass me, forgot it was all a hoax.

 

[Grassland Blue]

The Chinese bat eating championship in Wuhan 2020.

I was reading up about SARS because I went to China in 2003 and there was a SARS pandemic then.
That pandemic started in Guangzhou in 2002 and ended in 2004. About 8.500 people were infected and about 900 died. That pandemic affected people in Hong Kong and 32 countries including Vietnam, Singapore andh Canada.
That incident should have been a warning.