Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[gatso]

exxon valdez is a good call, huge story

I'm adding the marchioness disaster

A wee bit parochial?

the marchioness? possibly, I kinda assumed it was a pretty big story nationwide but guess not from your response

[Rod Paradise]

exxon valdez is a good call, huge story

I'm adding the marchioness disaster

A wee bit parochial?

the marchioness? possibly, I kinda assumed it was a pretty big story nationwide but guess not from your response

Oh no, it was a big story - especially the court case(s?), but since then there's been hundreds of lives lost in bigger sea disasters.

Just IMO it's not a BIG story.

[Claw75]

exxon valdez is a good call, huge story

I'm adding the marchioness disaster

A wee bit parochial?

the marchioness? possibly, I kinda assumed it was a pretty big story nationwide but guess not from your response

Oh no, it was a big story - especially the court case(s?), but since then there's been hundreds of lives lost in bigger sea disasters.

Just IMO it's not a BIG story.

I'd say Zebrugge was a bigger story than Marchioness

[gatso]

I wish I hadn't started thinking about this, things keep popping into my head now

charles and di's wedding was such a huge news item. the whole country just went irrationally mental for a few weeks. my normally sane parents camped out on the street the night before and made friends with a couple of punks with massive mohicans who were sharing the same bit of pavement

and then torville and dean's bolero in sarajevo. went way beyond the boudries of sport and into the public conscience

[Laxie]

Ken Bigley ... now there was a story.

They gave him Irish citizenship hoping it would help.  Only a short time later Margaret Hassan met the same fate...and she had a good few passports before they ever kidnapped her.

[gatso]

Oh no, it was a big story - especially the court case(s?), but since then there's been hundreds of lives lost in bigger sea disasters.

Just IMO it's not a BIG story.

looking back maybe not but at the time it was all that was on the news for a very long time, certainly in london, it was massive

[tikay]

Is a keen interest in something enough to make the list or must we have been alive during the event?

Whatever you want really Dawn, but my List(s) will be comprised of those that occurred during my life time, & at an age when I could comprehend them. So my Coronation of Queen Elizabeth "candidate" is not allowable, as I was too young to understand it.

[Laxie]

List posted already.  Go back a page or two.  All things that I remember happening.  Still big into info on the Titanic and always was...well before the movie came out.

[tikay]

Surprised no one mentioned the death of John Lennon or Elvis ( may have missed)

Elvis never interested me at all - I've got him in the same "not interested" file as MJ.

Lennon was another matter entirely, & his death genuinely hurt me. I was very much of the Beatles era, & John was clearly the most talented & attitudey Beatle. BIG story, but not much depth to it, the guy was caught immediately, & the rest was just grieving & reminiscence.

[dik9]

America sees it's 1st black President

[tikay]

Is a keen interest in something enough to make the list or must we have been alive during the event?

pretty sure you can't put 'dinosaurs' just 'cos you've got a pop up book on them

Bite me.  Was thinking more along the lines of the Titanic.

If we allowed to the whole of the 20th century, there are quite a few that could be added.

Both World Wars (Including Hiroshima), Race to the South pole, Climbing of Everest, The Decline of the British Empire etc.....

What about the Cuban missile crisis or more generally the cold war, Tikay?

The conquest of Everest - good shout!

Cuban Missile Crisis - "who blinked first", Kennedy & Kruschev (?), another good one.

By "Cold War", I assume you mean "ending of"?

Any "all-time" (but modern times) list would have to include Hiroshima, & of course, the most horrific tale of all, Holocaust.

And on a lighter note, The Titanic, though the movie & it's hype rather ruined what was quite an interesting tale originally.

I actually saw the original Titanic movie, called "A Night to Remember", starring Roger Moore, & it was in black & white.

I think my lifelong loathing of all things movies was because my sister used to drag me to all those dreadful 50's Musicals - The King & I, The Sound of Music, Annie Get Your Gun, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I can almost feel the revulsion at them even now.

[tikay]

Surprised no one mentioned the death of John Lennon or Elvis ( may have missed)

John Lennon was already on my list.  Titanic and Kent State removed.  Sigh.

Why did you remove Kent State?

[bolt pp]

Wow, time flies. Nearly a hundred pages to catch up on since I was last here....

been anywhere nice?

2 weeks work in Florence, turned into a couple of months travelling round Europe  

cool, n1, that's the way to do it

[Laxie]

Surprised no one mentioned the death of John Lennon or Elvis ( may have missed)

John Lennon was already on my list.  Titanic and Kent State removed.  Sigh.

Why did you remove Kent State?

I wasn't born yet...not for another 7 months.

[tikay]

9/11

Iran Hostage Crisis - yellow ribbons

Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion

Nelson Mandela released

Asassination of John Lennon

Fall of Berlin Wall

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Exxon Valdez Spill

Oklahoma City bombings

Beating of Rodney King & Trial of 4 police officers

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Waco Texas - didn't make the top 10.  Pipped by Rodney King

Great list. The Hostage Crisis - & it's quite bizarre ending (timed to the second to embarrass the outgoing President) was a terrific story.

Oklahoma City, too - & once again, perchance, I was in America when it happened. HUGE story. If I recall correctly, Oklahoma City is not in Oklahoma - is that right?

The irony of that one was that they immediately suspected Middle-Eastern terrorism, & rounded up all the usual suspects. But the bomber was a local redneck.