What were the main events where you know exactly where you were when you heard?

[BrizzleMint]

Mine were the space shuttle explosion, Princess Diana dying and 9/11 plus the explosion at Mill Hill barracks and the Harrods bombing.

I was curious what they were for older/younger people so what events do you really remember.

Princess Diana - I got up and my mum was watching the news and I remember her first words being "there's been a tragedy in Paris"

9/11 - I was at work and it was on the radio.

7/7 I was in London with my parents and grandma, we were supposed to be going home that day and we heard on the news in the hotel and we had to stay another night. We went out in the afternoon, there was nobody to be seen and I was really scared being out

Princess Diana
9/11

I’m 36. I remember where I was for Princess Diana, 9/11 and Robin Williams’ death (although that one is still fairly recent)
I remember Dunblane happening, and 7/7 but I don’t remember exactly where I was. I also remember watching the news on TV when Nelson Mandela was released from prison, I was pretty young then though.
All of these things were either pre social media/smartphones (apart from Robin Williams - I heard that on the radio in the car) so I wonder if now that I get a BBC news alert for major events that I might not be so aware of exactly where I was when the news broke

I remember quite a lot. Hillsborough I was studying for exams, I was nearly 16 and came downstairs for a coffee and saw the TV footage and the ambulances on the pitch

Lockerbie - my sister was at her school dance and I was home doing homework, went downstairs and it was on TV. 4 days before Christmas 😢

The ones I remember most vividly are Diana’s death, 9/11 and Hillsborough. I knew people at the match at Hillsborough so that was particularly hard hitting at the time. I was watching it unfold on tv at my grandparents house and couldn’t believe what was happening.
I also remember lying in bed listening to the radio at the start of the war against Iraq, basically declaring we were officially ‘at war’ and I also remember where I was when the Falkland War ended; I was very little but my memory of it is vivid. I also remember seeing John Lennon’s death being announced on the telly. Although I was really young I must have realised it was a really ‘big’ thing. All sad events, unfortunately.