What were you doing at famous moments of recent history?

Question

On 9/11 I was on a near-deserted beach in southern England - didn't get the news till much later.

Answer 1

on 9/11 I was driving through london with my ex listening to two comedy DJ's on the radio, who suddenly did a very good job of being very serious about the breaking news.

For the London bombings I was on the London underground going through liverpool street.

I was in bed back at my parent's when Diana died -my mum came to wake me up to tell me -I went back to sleep and didn't think much of it for some reason.

NO other events really stand out -I've gone through a good list of them here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/years/default.stm

Answer 2

We were ordering a carpet, and the assistant kept disappearing into the back room, and looked all agitated and upset. When I asked him what was up, he told me that a plane had flown into the twin towers in NY. In my hurry to get home and watch the news, I agreed to the carpet my wife selected. I've been living with it ever since then! Osama Bin Laden has a lot to answer for apart from killing all those people. I think of that p***k every time I walk on my own particular version of the 9/11 disaster.

Answer 3

I was at Arlington National Cemetery for a burial of a fellow service member when the plane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, I immediately received a page to return to my duty station which was the Washington Naval Yard in Washington, D.C.
Took me about 15 minutes to get there, I could see the smoke in my rear view mirror rising from the pentagon.

Answer 4

When 9/11 happened I was listening to a former Neo-Nazi talk about his life. I didn't hear about it until I left for my next class... I was in the hallway and I heard the Principal talk about how a plane struck the World Trade Center and a bomb hit the pentagon. It later turned out to be another plane. I thought it sounded like a bizarre prank. When I got to class we tried to listen to the radio to find out what happened. Despite the expensive satellite dish in the courtyard, my high school didn't have any TV in most of the rooms. I heard what was happening and could hardly believe my ears. It wasn't until I went to third period English that I saw the towers on fire and the video of the second plane hitting it. I also saw them collapse... It was mind-numbing.

Answer 5

On 9/11 I was on a training course of mind-numbing ueslessness. The news came in, I was unable to pay attention to it any more and have in fact been unable to take work seriously ever since.
When Diana died I was asleep and woke to a world gone mad.
When the Berlin wall was brought down I was scoring a hat-trick in a football match and found out later.
When we invaded Iraq i was swearing at the TV news and calling Blair every liar under the sun.
When my children were born I was right there every time.
Cheers, Steve.

Answer 6

On 9/11 i was at school and i didnt even know what happned until mom came to pick me up and said she'd heard something about a plane hitting some towers, and as she hadnt seen any of tyhe news we were all in shock.

On the london bombings i was in double art class, making masks, when i'd gone to the toilet the radio was on and the teacher was telling the class that some bombs had gone off in london.

Answer 7

On 9/11 I was at work, 2 miles (by car)due north of the site (it was a lot closer 'as the crow flies') We could see the towers very clearly, from our windows. In fact, we were close enough that you still had to look up to see the tops of those buildings. We witnessed both crashes, and both collapses. Trapped in Manhattan (no subway, bus, bridges closed to vehicles) for hours. Not able to walk home, too far.

Answer 8

When the London bombings occured, I was at work in an operating theatre, watching an ankle op.

On 9/11 I was off sick from college and my mum called me in to see the news, I'd never even heard of the Twin Towers til then.

Day Princess Di's death was announced, we were on the ferry coming back from Eire, we knew a Royal had died but not who til we landed.

Answer 9

When I first heard of the Challenger exploding, I happened to be home from work that day, a friend called to say what he'd just seen on TV, and I spent the rest of the day glued to CNN following that tragedy. When 9/11 happened, again I was home from work and tuned to the TV when a special report came across to relate what had occurred. I spent the rest of that day calling friends, keeping everyone informed (I might add that I live in NJ). The lesson here in never stay home from work. Just terrible memories.

Answer 10

When my school announced JFK had just died I turned to a female classmate and remarked, "Wanna watch me put a pencil up my nose?" I fought in a foreign war and didn't see any famous moments. Watched two waterspouts race through a swamp but they weren't famous either. Visited Expo '86 in Canada which was nearly famous but not a moment. When Dianna died I thought she was used goods. Prince Charles, he's the sly one, eh? 9-11? I said, "Where's the damned President?"

Answer 11

no I thoroughly disagree; large people have made the international because it quite is now. a number of the flaws people have accomplished deserve a place in background. Aesop, Agamemnon, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Alexander Graham Bell, Archimedes, Aristotle, Charles Babbage, Cheops, Christopher Columbus, Confucius, David, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, James Watt, Karl Marx and Wilbur Wright are purely a handful of persons who've formed this international into what's is now.