Tomsdad
9:55 Tue Feb 20
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The death of Elvis.
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Mex Martillo
9:41 Tue Feb 20
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I thought I was old until I read treads like this. It was the cod wars for me.
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ludo21
6:45 Tue Feb 20
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Space... there was always a lot about space.
I'm too young to remember the first moon landing etc... but the tv spent a lot of time at Cape Canaveral / Houston.
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Hello Mrs. Jones
5:54 Tue Feb 20
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JFK Assassination
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New Jersey
3:11 Tue Feb 20
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Harry Roberts being on the run in 1966, that photo-fit scared me shitless.
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Oh dear
2:55 Tue Feb 20
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Brian Kidd did score, he got the 3rd goal.
Not that I knew who he was though, I was only 5 and was allowed to stay up and watch it as live football was a rarity.
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Gary Strodders shank
2:18 Tue Feb 20
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The Tenerife air crash disaster in 1977 for two reasons
One- my old.man worked as an aircraft engineer and was glued to the box.
Two We had been on holiday there a month or so before
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BubblesCyprus
2:05 Tue Feb 20
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Ronan Point flats collapse was a bit of a story in those days being on the doorstep
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Far Cough
1:11 Tue Feb 20
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Brian Kidd scored didn't he?
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Oh dear
12:51 Tue Feb 20
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Manchester United winning the European Cup against Benfica
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lincslink
8:43 Sun Feb 18
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Going Decimal
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oioi
8:17 Sun Feb 18
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JFK followed 2 days later by Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.
Both live on tv in the states, wasn't live in uk but felt like it to me.
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RM10
7:38 Sun Feb 18
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Apollo 11 and Vietnam
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CR
6:12 Sun Feb 18
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CHL, I think you and I must be around the same age. JFK is certainly the first one that I remember. The Aberfan disaster was the one that had the most resonance with me. Mum was a Londoner but my dad was from a mining town in Wales. When mum heard the news she just caught the bit about the event and not where it was and she was so worried that it might have affected dad’s family.
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Haz
9:57 Sun Feb 18
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West Ham winning the World Cup, '66.
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Pi Alpha Nu
4:59 Sun Feb 18
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Man landing on the moon.
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Chairman Alf
12:53 Sun Feb 18
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The Aberfan disaster. It was announced at our junior school’s morning assembly.
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20 benson
11:54 Sat Feb 17
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Mary Bell ... a ten year old that murdered two toddlers in the late 1960's
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nychammer
11:13 Sat Feb 17
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i really didn't pay too much attention to the news when very young, but the one that stands out is the miner's strike and Thatcher versus Scargill
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Mad Dog
11:00 Sat Feb 17
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Can we not have any threads that aren't ruined by pathetic arguing and point scoring???
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Side of Ham
9:07 Sat Feb 17
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It’s clear Pickle is desperate to be liked on here so please those who like him, let him know on this thread…..the continual format of him and his agenda looking to get recognition is laborious to most posters but please those who like him give him a boost of ego…..then we may get some rest bite from his neediness.
Thanks from those fortunate enough to be in Western Europe.
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