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I have been musing on this for a while, & the longer I think about it, the more contenders I find.

I ended up with a list of 20 or 25, but I don't want to list them all or it ruins the thread before it starts, but I'll kick off with these three...


Watergate. Whatever way I look at it, the best ever.

9/11

COVID.


Just missing out were the assassinations of JFK and Lennon.



Go on, try & beat those, list your Top 3.

Top of my head without much thought.

Cuban missile crisis. We were literally minutes away from global annihilation. Think about it.

The tsunami.

Donald Trump becoming the most powerful man in the world

Fall of the wall.


I could do 20 easily

True, very hard to narrow it down to 3.

Trump is a great shout. I may have to reconsider.

The first tragedy registered in my mind just before my 8th birthday. I think because the victims were mainly children. 1966 the Aberfan disaster.

I remember walking in to a bar in Spain on Boxing Day and the tsunami was being reported on Sky News. I'm a frequent visitor to Thailand now, but hadn't yet travelled there.

Good times watching Muhammad Ali on TV live via satellite.

Pol Pot

Vietnam war.

There are just so many.

You must be ~10 or 12 years younger than me, I seem to recall I had been working 2 or 3 years when it happened, & it was definitely on my long short list.  

Vividly recall Harold Wilson visiting the scene a day or two later. And the then Chairman of the NCB (National Coal Board) Lord Robens handling it all so terribly, & denying responsibility.  

Kev makes a good point. Some stories are of more interest or significance to different people.

Cave rescues. Challenger disaster. Apollo 13. Chernoby.

I remember seeing it on the news, black and white TV still then. Just do very sad.

I'm 67, just a bit younger than that old fella Red Dog.

Flight MH370.

Am I getting too broad for this thread?

Lol. I've been 68 for 2 days.

Tom only last week I watched a documentary film about the Thai cave rescue. The Rescue on Netflix, very goid indeed.

Oh I'm a lot younger then, not 68 until October 🤣

Americans invading Afghanistan.

Americans leaving Afghanistan.

Death of Princess Diana.

I have to stop, I'll be here all day.

The Russians had a bash at Afghanistan in the late 70's didn't they? Am I right in thinking they left with their tail between their legs?

It was a total shit show Kev





Afghan–Soviet War https://share.google/QQTLqeiv30c67VU4Y

Oh yes, another great story.

Not too broad at all, it's interesting (to me) how we all choose differently.

That's the idea though, & the essence of it - you can only choose three.

These are the 3 News stories that immediately spring to mind. Not the definitive 3 "biggest"-but ones that stick in my mind. In date order:-

1. The 1970 World Cup. It had pretty much everything. Quite possibly the best English team ever. In Brazil, quite possibly the best team ever. Great football, scandal...

2. The Miners Strike. The impact on our economy cannot be underestimated. From the Unions, to the abandonment of Heavy Industry and whole Communities, to the posturing of 2 rather similar people in Thatcher and Scargill

3. 9/11. Just got home with my Wife and new-born 2nd child. Went upstairs, turned on the Computer, and watched with a mixture of fascination and horror

OJ mtfkin Simpson!

Oh my, yes. Absolute classic.

Knock, knock
Who's there?
OJ
OJ who?
You can be on the Jury

1970 World Cup - was that when there was the Bobby Moore Bogota bracelet thing?

Miner's strike. What a memory. Hard to imagine Mr Scargill & Lady Thatcher agreeing on a single thing whilst sat across a negotiating table. Real immovable force meets immovable object stuff. We had electricity on ration, 3 days on, 3 days off (or was it hours?) if memory not deceiving me? Imagine that happening now. WOT, NO TELLY?

The Bobby Moore bracelet thing.
The Banks wonder save, and the extraordinary sportsmanship from Pele afterwards
The mystery of why Banks missed the Quarters, and the unfair treatment of Bonetti and Ramsey
Jairzinho. Carlos Alberto. Inspired a lifetime love of Sport

Scargill always believed he was the opposite side of the same coin as Thatcher. He was. Similar strengths. And similar weaknesses

The troubles in Ireland. Scary time for our family as we had 2 soldiers (my Uncles) over there at the height of the conflict.

Greatest news stories?

The Bible
The Quran
The Tanakh

Or are we not including works of fiction? ;)

In my lifetime my top 3 would be -

9/11
The death of Diana
The SAS ending the Iranian Embassy siege  

All of those kept me rivetted to the TV for hours

OK. This is my 3 in reverse order.

Post Office scandal. I mean, what the actual fuck?

911. Watching it unfold as it happened. The entire world came to a standstill. Everyone everywhere was glued to a screen, any screen, totally gobsmacked. The aftermath produced a thousand stories of tragedy and heroism. The world was changed forever in an instant.

Trump. My number one and it's not even close.
Since he was first elected in 2016 I have followed his antics every day. I am astonished that a man with so little knowledge of the world and its history can become a world leader.
A man so totally devoid of diplomacy can occupy the post of top diplomat.
A man so vain as to ASK, almost demand, the Nobel peace prize but at the same time blow fishing boats out of the water, the crew convicted and sentenced to death without trial.
The self appointed head of the Peace Board who orders the killing of leaders he doesn't like, and, he does it without consultation.
A man who will stand before an audience of heads of state and spout utter drivel laced with insults.
A man who doesn't realise that you can't reduce the price of something by 600% or that you can't inject people with bleach to cure covid.
A man who demands that he be given a country because, "What right do the natives have to it?"
A man who  pardons insurrectionists because they wear hats with his slogan printed on them.

Everything he has done, and continues to do, is solely for his own gratification.

What a story.

Think that was Heath's miners' strike. Thatcher had coal imports lined up and "scab" road hauliers to get it to the power stations.  Mining was a horrible, dangerous job that no one could seriously have liked doing, so it was a bit ironic that it was the last stand against de-industrialisation.

I remember a left wing figure, might have been the eloquent Jimmy Reid, saying that those receiving redundancy payments should consider that the jobs aren't theirs to sell, but belong to the community (or words to that effect). In my first school summer job, in a swanky clothes shop, a group of pissed-up steel workers came in to buy new suits etc with their (in those days) pretty substantial dunny pay-offs - so Jimmy's words fell on very deaf ears.


 

So difficult but here goes in no particular order.

The death of Princess Diana 1997

9/11

The Tsunami 2004

All shocking events, brought to us in our homes by the news channels from around the world.

Epstein Starts WW3

Kennedy's Assassination

The Profumo Scandal

Ha, very good Ralph.

Unbelievable drama, & right in the middle of the World Snooker Final on Telly on Sunday night. Alex Higgins & Thorburn?