Hillsborough?
I was only 4 at the time so I have no memories of the day at all. Thankfully I suppose. I would have been sat at home with my mum watching the match. Dad was at the pub. I probably would have thought he was at the match, as he usually went. He didn't go on this occasion because he was saving up to take us on holiday. Thank God. How different life could have been for me. I got the lucky break. 96 others, and their families, didn't. :cry I go to the match every week with 2 people who survived the events that day and they hardly speak about it. A dad (who has MS and can't go anymore) a son and an uncle. The uncle was pulled into the top tier to avoid being crushed, the dad got broken ribs and the son got a twisted ankle and cracked ribs. The son and dad stayed together, and were looking around the morgue for the uncle when thankfully they bumped into him. He was doing the same for them. That's the most spine chilling thing I have ever heard.
Princess Diana died?
I was in Calais, and I had driven through that tunnel the day before she died. Absolutely freaky. It was the day after my birthday. Very weird experience, that. I remember the Liverpool vs. Newcastle game scheduled for 4pm kick off (in the days when only one game was played on a sunday) getting cancelled and me being gutted, as I was going straight from Calais to Anfield.
9/11?
I will never, ever forget this day. I was in college, 17 at the time. I was in a double ICT lesson, Tuesday afternoon. Before the whole internet crashed (and it did) I caught wind that a plane had crashed into the WTC through the BBC News website. It was the last time it worked for hours. I told the whole class and was allowed to go to a Geography class as they had a TV. I interrupted their lesson and asked if they could put the TV on. They did and a couple of minutes later the second plane hit. I never did go back to my ICT lesson...instead I just sat watching these horrific events unfold, at the Pentagon as well as in Pennsylvania (that plane was shot down in my mind) before getting on the bus home, telling the bus driver as he hadn't a clue, and then having to get myself up for going to Anfield to watch Liverpool vs. Boavista. The stupidest, most insensitive thing I have ever seen UEFA do. That match should have been cancelled. I wasn't up for it, the rest of the crowd weren't up for it, the players weren't up for it.... stupidity. That was one hell of a frightning day.
London wins the 2012 Olympics?
I'm honestly not sure. It's not something I'm too fussed about being perfectly honest. I THINK I was in work but I'm not sure.
7/7?
I was in work. Radio 1 was on and we were all glued to the BBC website. I rememeber Radio 1 first reported it as a fire in one of the tube stations and they had it under control, before the story developed and developed and it just became too much for the idiots at Radio 1, so we switched it to 5 Live and the true story unfolded that day. 7/7 isn't seen as horrific as it didn't unfold live on national television like 9/11, but it was every bit as scary. It was absolutely shocking how this minor story turned into a terrorist outrage, being pieced together bit by bit, minute by minute. I just remember overwhelming feelings of anger by the end of the day.
Michael Jackson died?
I was actually sat on this very computer watching Mitchell and Webb on IPlayer when my mate who works for The Times sent me a text: "MJ is dead, was dead when he arrived, suspected overdose on sleeping tablets." I went onto all the news websites and only Sky News had the balls to run with the story of him being dead. All the others were non-commital even though it was becoming clear he was dead. It was a sad day, the man is a musical genius, even if he was a barmpot. I watched a series of Bo'Selecta that night in his honour.
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