BBondsBootlaces
7:17 Fri Feb 16
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Iranian Embassy siege. I was home with chicken pox when they interrupted the snooker.
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Mad Dog
7:35 Fri Feb 16
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John Lennon assasination
I was 4 and remember hearing it and laughing as I thought they said lemon. My mum quickly corrected me.
I do remember seeing the 80 cup final on tv before that, as I remember my mum pointing out that was where my dad was.
Remember the parade next day also
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Aalborg Hammer
8:37 Fri Feb 16
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My parents had no idea that I could read until I read the headline on my Dad's paper (upside down too)about the John Profumo /Christine Keeler case.
I faintly remember JFK getting shot as I was disappointed that the Danny Kaye show was cancelled (not nearly as disappointed as Jackie Kennedy,no doubt)
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lab
8:54 Fri Feb 16
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My dad and I waiting for the astronauts to be visible coming back to earth after the moon landing .
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Percy Dalton
8:57 Fri Feb 16
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Believe it or not the Man Utd air crash was the same day my younger sister was born.
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Northern Sold
9:08 Fri Feb 16
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The jews getting slain in Munich
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martinbritt_63
10:25 Fri Feb 16
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The sinking of the "Flying Enterprise" off Cornwall in January 1952 - despite heroic efforts by Admiralty tug "Turmoil" and her crew to effect salvage.
Very early days ( relatively ) of TV news being able to cover such a story - helped by the fact it was right on our doorstep.
Probably sticks in my mind as my - Finnish - grandfather was a former Merchant marine sailor (shipwright) and always took a keen interest in any related news
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only1billybonds
10:52 Fri Feb 16
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Probably when Jagger and Richards got arrested for drugs in 67 and some reports on the Vietnam war.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:09 Fri Feb 16
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Ahm braincell
I really know I shouldn’t but do you really expect us to believe that?
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only1billybonds
11:52 Fri Feb 16
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When you say 'us', you really mean 'me' dont you, seeing as no one else is casting doubt over anyone else's replies. I was 7 in 67, we had a tv dont really see what there is to doubt but you carry on you hapless clown.
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zico
1:12 Sat Feb 17
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Can remember Cup Final Grandstand in 1975 if that counts?! Otherwise I can't remember seeing anything news wise until Elvis dying in 77. I was 9.
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Mike Oxsaw
1:21 Sat Feb 17
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only1billybonds 11:52 Fri Feb 16
Careful!
You're clearly his latest love interest in his desperate search for a best mate; you'll either be killed in a car park in front of your friends (Father, forgive him, for he knows not what they are) in some pathetic, 2 bob alpha-male ritual or get an invite to the next bench techno-techno (bring your own donkey) bangin' get on down with Jakob and da krew VW GTi Vaccine-friendly European "tour" tribute event (free swan & carp - no beaver).
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cholo
1:40 Sat Feb 17
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Elvis dying and crowds gathering outside graceland, nothing after that until either Lennon being shot or the sas raid on the Iranian embassy. Which ever came first.
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
2:31 Sat Feb 17
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Hammer and Pickle 11:09
Why don't you believe him?
Any reasoning behind that statement?
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Mickey Rat
2:46 Sat Feb 17
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The Cuban missile crisis when I was 5, I had older sisters so my Mum and Dad got a letter telling them to attend a meeting at our local primary school where they were told in the event of a nuclear attack to get a few tins of food in, paste newspaper over the windows, hide under the table and avoid going out for a day or two!
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,
3:15 Sat Feb 17
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Death of George V1
Korean War, mainly a memory because an uncle was doing national service and was sent there.
Coronation the following year.
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Briano
10:24 Sat Feb 17
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Can’t remember the year but there was a front page in the Daily Mirror showing twins that had suffocated in a refrigerator left in the back yard.
They died holding hands, Harrowing to see the photo
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Fauxstralian
10:44 Sat Feb 17
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Apollo 11 like a few
Can remember we got sent home from school to watch on tv.
Dont think it was on live but was when the film had arrived and that school only had 1 tv.
Was doing a summer office job during University holidays when John Lennon died. Someone came back from lunch with the afternoon paper and a few of us were crowding round reading it.
Boss came back & asked what was happening.
When he was told that Lennon was dead he shrugged and said 'Big deal, plenty of people die every day'
Still makes me laugh
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Manuel
11:21 Sat Feb 17
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Who shot JR.
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torino hammer
12:37 Sat Feb 17
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West Ham winning the world cup in 1966 when I was 6
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easthammer
1:04 Sat Feb 17
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My earliest memory of a news bulletin was the death of King George VI. I was 4 years 5 months old. I remember hearing it on the "wireless" while looking out the window on a cold day with snow flurries in the air.
But don't ask me what was in the news yesterday! Actually, I do know but you get my drift.
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