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People say you remember what you was doing or where you when iconic events happened?...

9/11?

7/7?

Hillsborough disaster?

Pricness Diana death?

All very sad, but seems one to spring to mind.

I remember where I were and what I was doing for all of them.

I was at my grandparents house. I'd been to Lifeboys (now known as the Junior Section of the Boys' Brigade) and our routine was to visit Dad's parents for an hour afterwards.
I didn't take in the significance of the event until some years later.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXDOk0vq4aI

I was playing a Snooker tournament at my dad's club the day Diana died and I remember the TV being left on the news most of the day.


9/11 I was in the Navy then and was based in Portsmouth at the time. I watched in disbelief through the afternoon at the senior rates mess at HMS Nelson.

I remember Diana and 9/11 but not 7/7 and I was too young for Hillsborough

Remember em all.

I'd guess Michael Jackson snuffing it is one most people remember too (Someone told me in the chatbox of PokerStars).

I found out about that one on twitter!

Yeah sadly all future 'remember where you where' scenarios will be 'I was sat browsing the interweb on my phone' for 99% of the population.

My dad died on the same day.

Probably reckon now that most major events will be found out this way now.  9/11 was off from school after an operation and having some physio.  7/7 I was playing a SnG on Party.  Diana was going to a family birthday party and found out listening to the radio in a pretty sweet Sierra Cosworth.

I was living in San Fransisco when 9/11 occurred. Never ever seen so many paranoid, stressed people in my life the following months.  No one would go over the bridges to travel, no one would get in a taxi with anyone who looked Asian, sales of guns when up and the ferry service across the bay went up 4000%.

I was skiving work on 9/11 lol

Diana, was at friends house in Birmingham after a night on the lash.

Don't remember the others.

Diana: family holiday in Norfolk.

9/11 trading at work, it went ballistic, really high octane stuff. Portfolios lost millions

7/7 can't remember

Hillsborough: standing on the away end at Craven Cottage for Fulham v Bolton in Div 4. Housemate at Uni was a massive Bolton fan and we were on a 21st birthday bender weekend in the smoke

9/11 was at a new clients for first day but could only see out of one eye as had a cut/swelling on my eye from playing rugby a few days earlier. Remember the sketchy reports coming through and then getting the full story when i got home. Was flying to Oz on 11/11 so that was a longer plane journey than originally scheduled

Hillsborough - was only a kid but remember sat on floor at home watching Grandstand waiting for match to start

others no idea, probably pissed.

9/11 sitting at a desk in the footy dept at Hills and just sat in silence watching everything unfold.

7/7 I was in LV and woke up late in the day to find a load of voicemail messages and texts telling me what had happened.

Hillsborough, I was in Sheffield tho not at the game, a truly terrible day in my life.

Princess Diana, I had just done it all in at Owlerton dogs and then walked home in the pouring rain, switched the TV on and went to tell my parents, we sat  around to watch the coverage together.

9/11 I was in my Laundrette my friend came running in and as he'd heard the news on the radio watched the second plane fly into the tower, was a very sad day indeed

7/7 I was in my office which at that time was Trafalgar Square

Princess Dianas death, I was living in NYC was on my way to play hand ball when my uncle told me..

Hilsborough  - I was at my dads shop in Derby which was close to the baseball ground, don't remember the context of which I was told but I remember being told.. 

Anyway:

Hillsborough - I was a kid, but I actually was in the car driving past Brammal Lane of all places when it came on the radio.

Diana - Woke up to hear my mum shout 'Princess Di has died, and your Dad fixed the lights' - you'd have to know my family to know why the second one was more of a shocker.

9/11 - arrived back home from a successful job interview for my first proper job at Norwich Union and it was on TV

7/7 - having a beer in Portugal with my mates, it came on the TV at the bar.

9/11 - my Dad called me to tell me about it when the first plane had hit.  I tried to get it online, but the BBC site wouldn't load, neither would the other main news sites.  Ananova (since merged into Orange) was the only news site that seemed to be up.  I remember going in to the Marketing Director's office, and putting on the telly.  Got a funny look until they saw what was happening.  Within 10 minutes their office was full of people, and then the second plane hit.

7/7 - Was in the office at a company in Leamington, and heard that all tube services had been cancelled.  Then the full story started to come out. Tried to call my brother, who lived in Highbury at the time and eventually got through and he was OK.  He'd decided to bike in that day, but could well have been on one of those. Scary stuff.

Hillsborough - was at home cleaning my Dad's car (Talbot Alpine in dark blue) and the telly was on as we were trying to finish cleaning the car before the match started.  Me and my older brother were running in and out of the house checking for when it started so we could go inside.  Had friends and relatives at the match, but thankfully they weren't in the central pen on that day.  Horrible to watch, as was the Bradford City fire.  All you can think is "I could have been in that".

Diana - was living in Japan and saw the end of a news flash on the telly.  Saw the character for 'death' in the graphics on the screen, but assumed that someone in her family had died or something.  But when they repeated the headlines, we heard the full story.  Was on the news for days (weeks) over there, as they do love the British Royal Family and Diana in particular.

Hillsborough - was working at the other semi at highbury. Remember waiting outside the ground at the end, and Everton fans walked past, laughing that 5 Liverpool fans had died.

Princess Di - was in bed watching friends on video, turned video off and news flash came on, ended up staying up til about 8 the next morning, watching sky news and itv. Ran out of fags about 3am :(

The other two, I was at work.

9/11 and Diana I can remember. Both were at work even though Di was a Sunday at about 6am but I remember the exact situation I was in when I heard the news. No idea about the other 2 though.

Anyone for the big Tsunami? I was in Gran Canaria by a swimming pool thinking how fortunate it was that my friend and I had decided against Thailand as it was a bit too expensive.

Tsunami I was in bed. Think it was Boxing Day?

I remember thinking. Wtf is a tsunami?

9/11
Was meant to be in the city working but the job got cancelled so I was at home watching it unfold on the TV.

7/7
Was meant to be in London for an after project party but was too drunk to travel up the night before due to the pre-after project party in Poole. Had an upset daughter who got her school to ring me because she thought I was there. Bless her.

Hillsborough disaster
Can't remember this.

Pricness Diana death

Woke up to the news. We had all the family round the house for my wifes birthday. Everyone was just gobsmacked, it wasn't much of a party.

9/11: I was parking my car to go back to the office in Twickenham about 2pm when it came on the radio. Just one plane had crashed at that stage and they were talking about some news planes flying around. When the second plane hit they said that it was one of the news planes that had crashed. Spent the afternoon watching it on the internet.

7/7: I was in Sydney. All the news on the telly seemed to be about London, with the Olympic announcement being the day before.

Diana: Watching the telly in the early hours when Dermot Murnaghan came on with a newsflash to say she had been in a crash. Spent the next three hours trying to find out more but there wasn't a word more about it anywhere. About 4.30am, I think, there was a little bit of news about it and they said that Dodi had been killed. Nothing about her. I think it was about 6-6.30am when they said she had died too. It was a pretty weird few hours wondering what was going on and why they weren't filling the airwaves with updates.

Hillsborough: Don't remember it, I'm afraid.

lol.
wear was you?

9/11?

Holiday in Menorca. Watched it all on Spanish tv thinking WTF is going on.

7/7?

Holiday in Cornwall. Couldn't get through to the office to see if colleagues were ok. Horrid.

Hillsborough disaster?

Watching at home on grandstand

Princess Diana death?

Was at a party at the ex Russian embassy next door to Kensington Palace that night. Wondered what all the fuss was about when helicopters were landing at 3am. Still unaware when I left at 9am wondering why so many police and people were gathered around the gate.

Actually I have one - where were you on Black Friday?

I was at DTD at the PartyPoker Big Game. The guys at Party were pretty much popping champagne corks, all the Stars and FTP pros, understandably, were not.

I was updating the Monte Carlo

Telling the UK Pros playing the event that Black Friday was going down, seeing expressions change from disbelief to wide eyed worry and watching them rush to get their laptops, withdraw etc etc

i was getting knocked out of the Monte Carlo as the news spread around the room and everyone was phoning their mum to withdraw their funds stars/FT funds for them

Ha I was stood in the car park offering my laptop out to those who needed it

I better recall where I was when.....

Kennedy was asassinated.

John Lennon ditto.

The Great Tsunami.

The two off duty (?) soldiers in Northern Ireland who were dragged from their car & beaten to death.

Oi, answer your phone!

Was this during an IRA funeral procession and they stripped them naked against a wall?
If so I was very young when I was watching this on the news and could not understand why the Army helicopter above didn't start  shooting and rescue them. Also why the one soldier didnt shoot the crowd instead of in the air. Maybe if they knew their fate they would of

It was earlier but i remember Bradford like it was yesterday, yet have no recollection of where i was for Hillsborough.

I was a little young for Hillsborough to have any real impact on me, so no memory.

Diana was killed on the morning of my twentieth birthday, went to my cousins early to have my uncle open the door and say 'Di's died!'

9/11, (my granny's birthday) We had just moved and hadn't yet got a proper reception on our telly,
when I get an hysterical phonecall from my slightly highly strung mother in law crying 'Its world war three! They just blew the White house up!' before slamming the phone down.
 Cue much hilarity and eye rolling at our end, and comments of 'Your Dad must have his Independence day DVD on' but we did put the telly on, and with the help of a fork stuck in the back get a very staticy picture just in time to see the first tower fall.
Talked about stunned silence.

7/7, I kid you not, is my sister Bridie's birthday, and I was at home with my youngest baby with the BBC news channel on in the background, so I kind of watched it as it unfolded.
If anyone else remembers watching it was one of those weired situations where you can see from the footage something really bad is happening, but the news readers cant say.
 They kept saying there had been a power surge on the underground, but at the same time taking those 'on the scene' phonecalls from traumatised people describing the carnage. Awful.

Lol, can I have a list of the entire dog family birthdays, so I know not to go out :)

Nah, that memory is a bit hazy, due to him celebrating a big birthday the night before.

Mrs Reds is on New year eve...

9/11 I was flying to Vegas, was on the last flight out of London which didn't turn back. Diverted to Calgary and spent the first night on a shcool gym floor as all hotel rooms had long since sold out. Literally did not find out what had happened until 12 hours afterwards as noone at the airport would say a word - Found out later there was a rumour of another hijacking planned on a transatlantic plane, hence it took 4 hours plus to get through security. as everything was searched thoroughly.

I was taking my young nephew to Vegas and he noticed about 3 hours before landing the destination had changed to Calgary. We asked a stewardess what was happening and she told us it was broken and not to worry!

But the most surreal moment was just before coming into land - we still thought we were approaching Vegas.

The captain came over the intercom "I have to inform you all US airspace is closed and we are having to land in Canada"

Panic ensued. He didn't tell us why the airspace was closed - the only which made any sense was a nuclear attack. A crash or something and a couple of airports might be closed, but that wouldn't explain all airspace being shut.

Some seriously upset people naturally.

All in all a pretty weird day.


Was playing poker at the Vic the evening Di had the crash. Lots of jokes and laughter as no one had any idea how serious it was. Wasn't til the next morning realised she had died.

Was racing at Newbury the day of Hillsbrough. Saw some pictures at the track, but had no idea what was happening until listening to reports on the radio driving home.

7/7 was in Vegas. Just glued to CNN for about 2 days.

John Lennon's murder - I was 8 years old and asleep in bed when my Dad shouted upstairs to my Mum that John Lennon had died.  I remember her crying in her bedroom.

Hillsborough - I was at Leeds Road watching Huddersfield Town. At half time some people around us with radios were saying that something bad was happening at Hillsborough.  By full time we knew it was horrendous and I remember being on the bus going home with people who had been shopping and thinking to myself that these people didn't know what had happened and would get home and find out.  I have to say that of all the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime, this is the one which without doubt had the biggest emotional impact on me.  I think that was because I was a football fan and was actually at a game that day.  It made me think that it could have been me.

Diana's murder - I had been out on the Saturday night and fell asleep on the sofa when I got home.  My ex rang me in the middle of the night to tell me to put the TV on because she had been involved in a car accident.  I stayed up all night watching it in disbelief.  I rang my Mum in shock and told her Diana had died.  She said "Diana who?".  I remember vividly going back into work on the Monday and a male colleague (in his 40s) constantly bursting into tears at his desk all day.  I also remember my dad going to London for her funeral.  This was a very bizarre thing for me, because he had never shown any interest in her or the Royal Family before. 

9/11 & 7/7 - At work for both of these.  Our boss actually sent us all home at about 12 noon on 9/11 telling us to "go home to your families". 

Good question.
9/11
Had a betting shop at the time; client comes in and says ‘turn on the news!’, the first plane had already gone in, needless to say was glued to the screen in an empty shop for the afternoon.

7/7  Was in a clients house and it was on the news. My Dad works all around London and uses a lot of public transport, so was keen to touch base; found all phones down when trying to ring the South, but all was fortunately fine, for him.
This reminds me of the IRA Harrods bombing, my brother had gone that day to watch Cfc and was going to pop in to Harrods, fortunately not at the same time.

Woke up to the news on telly of Dianas death, after a typical I think Saturday night.
I remember Elvis as I  was in Ireland on Holidays, remember the landscape as the news came on the radio.
Also Lennon, a mundane return from School with the Ev standard headline.

Funny as my memory these days is crap, so cant remember MJ passing (but then had no time for him anyway) They say bad sleeping patterns affects memory; the perils of poker.

Dodi Di Dead - in bed after a massive session, lean over to turn on my radio and can't find anything other than some godawful muzak shite.  Far too out of it to move so just lay listening to it and the newsreel over and over for a good hour or two in slight disbelief.

9/11 - at work on lunch and heard about the first crash and then sat in the kitchen watching the most amazing few hours of TV I am likely to ever witness in my lifetime.  Completely engrossed.  Saw the 2nd plane hit and then started to think WTF is going on here.

7/7 and Hillsborough - no idea.  Had thought I was at work for Hillsborough at ASDA as a teenager but dates don't match up.  I remeber that my mate had just moved from Kendal to quite near Tavistock Square and my house extension was being built when I heard about 7/7.

9/11?
At work, and the then girlfriend called me from home, saying had I look at the news, at the same time, people were mumbling over the office as people slowly looked at the news.  I remember kind of nervously sort of laughing at what she was telling me over the phone, not quite believing what I was hearing.  I got home after work, and stayed glaring at the news for the whole evening and night.

7/7?
Again at work, and being very scared as my Dad and best mate worked on the trains in London.  All was OK, for them at least.

Hillsborough disaster?
South Stand, events unfolding to my left. I was 15 years old and it was my late birthday present.  My Dads last words to me when I left in the morning was " get there early and swap them for your (Liverpool) end. We never had mobiles phones.

Pricness Diana death?
Laying on the sofa watching the news. I was on the sofa as 2 girls were in my bed.  True story.  I was off to Liverpool vs Newcastle later that day, I was halfway there when they said all sports would be cancelled.  I wasn't impressed!

HA.  I was playing the Friday night comp in Luton.  Tikay was next to me and spent most of the night on the phone.  Was a pretty panicy time for some people there as they were all trying to find out about their funds.  Think I had sub 10$ on both sites so didn't care tbh!

Aye, I remember that night at the g. All the regs panicking about a combined $36 or something.

Ok what I remember

9/11?

Just starting my shift at the pub I was working in at the time in Biggleswade. Had it on the t.v's for the rest of the day with people coming in from working in London (some of them worked on the trading floors) telling us that it was not a good day in the sq mile

7/7?

Was sitting in a pub in St Neots having a drink with a friend. Spent the day just sitting there watching the news coming in thinking thank god I did't go into London that day

Hillsborough disaster?

Don't even know when this happened. I know what it is but I don't know about it

Pricness Diana death?

Was only a young lad when this happened. I remember my dad waking me in the morning telling me about it

Michael Jackson Death?

Was sitting in the Vic playing 1-2 and it was all over the TV's. All I could think was 'fuck' I had just got my tickets to see him at the O2

All very sad, but seems one to spring to mind.