Grumpster
12:30 Tue Jun 1
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I barely give a shit about the news now, so am thinking I definitely didn't give a fuck back in the 80's.
Probably Lockerbie, Hungerford or Dunblane though I wouldn't have cared.
Probably should have been the Falklands as I would have been 7/8, but at that age things like that go over your head.
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Takashi Miike
12:33 Tue Jun 1
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non celebrity story, the disappearance of genette tate in devon. we were in holiday in cornwall at the time and everywhere you went had a missing poster up of the poor girl
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Mike the Hammer
12:43 Tue Jun 1
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West Ham getting to the 1975 FA Cup Final when I was a 5 year old. I remember seeing the claret and blue vastly outnumbering the black and white in the windows of houses (posters, scarves/rosettes etc) as we drove atound in the days leading up to it, and being very happy because of it.
Non football would be the death of Elvis. Was on holiday in Cornwall with the family and Mum was in tears.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:46 Tue Jun 1
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Oh, and PICKLES, natch!
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yngwies Cat
1:05 Tue Jun 1
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Probably something to do with the IRA.
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Briano
1:12 Tue Jun 1
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The Aberfan disaster
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zebthecat
1:21 Tue Jun 1
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Apollo 11 moon landing.
We were living in Miami at the time and Dad took us to see the rocket on a tour of Cape Kennedy. It was in the vehicle assembly building at the time (there were small clouds near the roof) and it was perched on the launch platform complete with the tower.
Still the most impressive thing I have ever seen even given that I was 4.
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isca hammer
1:22 Tue Jun 1
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Takashi Miike 12:33 Tue Jun 1
That i remember all to clearly aswell, being from Exeter i remember my Dad being amongst hundreds locally that searched Woodbury Common looking for her. She was 13 when she went missing so a couple of years older than me.
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the coming of gary
2:01 Tue Jun 1
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Definitely the Apollo 13 mission - in infants school (Cann Hall, Leytonstone) we had a special assembly to pray for safe return of the astronauts
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zico
2:14 Tue Jun 1
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First tv memory was 1975 FA Cup Final. First news was probably the death of Sid James for some reason probably due to being a Carry On fan as a kid. Elvis sticks in the mind though in 77.
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chim chim cha boo
2:40 Tue Jun 1
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Mum and dad getting me an my sister up for the first moon landing and watching it on our little black and white telly.
I was three and a half
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Coffee
7:00 Tue Jun 1
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Also the first moon landing. Even at that age, it was very exciting.
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wanstead_hammer
8:04 Tue Jun 1
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Yeh the first moon landing as well (Apollo 11).
Football wise, remember me old man jumping up when someone scored (sure it was the manu/Benfica game. Hopefully it was the benfica goal.!). And Mexico ‘70 World Cup,collecting the Esso coins!
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munkyfunk
8:23 Tue Jun 1
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John lennon getting shot
Then falklands. Thought we were going into ww3. I was about 7..
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Haz
9:04 Tue Jun 1
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England/West Ham winning the World Cup in '66
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BRANDED
9:46 Tue Jun 1
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Probably the 66 World Cup
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billywhitehorse
10:25 Tue Jun 1
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JFK assassination when I was 6.
Ones I remember clearest were Aberfan, Moon Landing and the death of Churchill.
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SecondOpinion
10:31 Tue Jun 1
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JFK
I was 8 and I remember where I was
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Lee Trundle
10:36 Tue Jun 1
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The argies invading the Falklands.
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Troy McClure
10:40 Tue Jun 1
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John Lennon shot dead. I was 7
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plankton
10:43 Tue Jun 1
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wanstead_hammer 8:04 Tue Jun 1
..... And Mexico ‘70 World Cup,collecting the Esso coins!
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What world cup were the little plastic white heads, then? Was that not 1970 as well? I still have mine somewhere in a box...
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