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[TheBoy]

Throughout history, there have always those sorts of events where everyone remembers where they were at the time.

Not being old enough to remember the JFK assassination or the original Apollo landings, for me I guess that just leaves 9/11.

I was on a Windows 2000 Infrastructure Design course in Cirencester when news started to come in that 2 planes had crashed into the WTC.

[tunnie]

9/11, at GrandmaT's, I remember commenting, 'What film is this?' When walking in

[CaptainZok]

9/11 Delivering parcels in Salford, just been given my own round that week.
Hillsborough at the reception after our wedding.

[the alarming man]

I was in borden at a set of lights watching the footage of 9/11 in the window of a curry's....thinking too myself which film is that???

[Andy H]

11/9  University College Hospital estates department I was setting up an HP A0 plotter when the first plane hit

Apollo 11 - I was 5 years old & I remember being allowed to stay up and watch (on our 405 line black & white TV). Seeing the images now they look so grainy, our TV always looked like that 

JFK - 4 months before I was born so I don't remember that one.

[pauls]

I was sat in front of the tv when it came on and i thought it was a advert for a new film. Until the second plane hit

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Throughout history, there have always those sorts of events where everyone remembers where they were at the time.

Not being old enough to remember the JFK assassination or the original Apollo landings, for me I guess that just leaves 9/11.

I was on a Windows 2000 Infrastructure Design course in Cirencester when news started to come in that 2 planes had crashed into the WTC.

We were living in a shithole just outside of Nottingham at the time. I remember the news reporting that the twin towers had collapsed yet the television footage still showed them  burning but intact.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

11/9  University College Hospital estates department I was setting up an HP A0 plotter when the first plane hit

Apollo 11 - I was 5 years old & I remember being allowed to stay up and watch (on our 405 line black & white TV). Seeing the images now they look so grainy, our TV always looked like that 

JFK - 4 months before I was born so I don't remember that one.

I was nine years old and remember it well.

I also had the Airfix kit for Apollo 11, complete with lunar module.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

As for JFK ....I was 3 years old and had just enjoyed 'Muffin the Mule'...

[bigegg]

First launch of space shuttle Columbia - watched in school assembly hall
Eruption of mnt St. Helens - watched at school in TV room.
11/9 - mixing a batch of Cadbury's purple Ink for easter egg cartons.
Death of Princess Di - sat at home recovering from a monster of a stag night.
Bradford City fire - was actually watching match at home on TV (unusual, to say the least, cos I hate footlball)


 

[Andy H]

I also had the Airfix kit for Apollo 11, complete with lunar module.

I remember the legs on the lunar lander being painful if trodden on I can't remember if it was mine or my brothers or a friends

[05omegav6]

I was fuelling/recovering from a Bacardi Spice induced hangover when Princess Di, er, died

And was painting the sitting room window frames when the world went to shit on 9/11... Had only popped the telly on to have Diagnosis Murder on in the background suffice to say the painting got left and I nearly got a blocking when Mum came home... She hadn't seen/heard the news at school, so soon understood why I hadn't touched the windows

[kevinp58]

Apollo 11 I was at secondary school and they got a colour TV in the assembly hall especially for the occasion and it was in black and white, 
JFK I remember seeing it on the news when I got home from school. 
Wold Trade centre I was hanging a front door for a customer when it came on the radio, then she said come look at the tele. 
Columbia I was actually on holiday in Florida at a friends 

[05omegav6]

Oh and sleeping rough on a bench at Swissair ticket desk in what was Terminal Two at Heathrow when Ytshak Rabin died...

[D]

9/11, just returned from a cousins wedding, we sat down and switched the TV on.