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.

Nelson Mandela's release from prison - I watched it on the evening news with my parents, who were massive socialists. They had champagne and I was only seven, so I had lemonade.

Vaguely remember watching news coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall as well, again at home with my leftie parents.

Princess Diana - I was at my dad's house, the first one up. I went downstairs and put the telly on and I thought the Queen had died, it was blanket coverage.

Michael Jackson, I woke up to the news.

9/11 I was playing hooky from work and I'd been out with my friend. We got back and she put the telly on while I went to make the tea and she suddenly called me back into the room. We saw the second plane hit.

Brexit result - I'd tried to stay up as long as I could but gave up and went to bed. DH checked on his phone as soon as he woke up and woke me up to tell me.

Diana, 9/11 and the Brexit referendum for me too. And Grenfell. You could see the plume of smoke from our house (and we live about 13 miles away).

Oh and I vaguely remember where I was for the fall of the Berlin Wall, though I didn't understand the significance. I just remember my dad trying to explain. I'm 38 now btw.

I was in America nannying when I heard about Diana. People there acted like it was a member of my family who had died.

I was in an airport in Sri Lanka waiting to get on a plane when we saw 9/11 on TV but with no sound so no real idea what was going on. Then spent a week in the Maldives with no internet/tv/newspapers so missed all the immediate aftermath and had to get my head around it when we got back.

I remember being at home and dh coming into the room in tears when he heard Prince had died.

I also remember being on the loo(!) when news came on the radio that our local Labour mp had got in, ousting a tory who'd been there 40 years. I thought dh had stubbed his toe he yelled so loud.

9/11
Thatcher resignation
John Smith dying
Princess Di dying

I remember lots of the others mentioned, but these 4 I can specifically recall exactly where I was and what I was doing.

Diana - I was very little. I went shopping for a school coat with. Y mum and everything was closed

9/11 I was at school

Manchester arena bombings.

Paris attacks

Sadam statue being pulled down

Bin laden being found

Lee rigbys murder

Pushing my baby out as it became apparent Trump had made it into power

I remember princess Diana's funeral, but not her actual death.
I remember 9/11 and when it was announced that Chester Bennington had died.

I do remember other things happening, but not where I was or what I was doing at those times.

we’d just bought some lovely crusty rolls when my mum phoned me and screamed “turn the news on” those rolls turned to dust in my mouth.

All this sadness on here but the above really made me laugh - it was just like something out of Take a Break.

Princess Diana I was getting ready for bed and it came up on a newsflash. 9/11 I was in class studying biology and the head came in to switch on the tv. Michael Jackson I was ill with the flu so wasn’t sleeping very well and up majority of the night watching sky news.

England winning the World Cup
Kennedy dying
Jimi Hendrix dying
Diana dying
First steps on the moon
Aberfan - my grandad died the same day
Portillo losing his seat in 97
Thatcher dying
Brexit referendum
Trump’s “victory”

I bet there are more if I wracked my brains.

Some I was watching on Newsround: Challenger, Falkland's, Berlin Wall, Hungerford Terry Waite, Nelson Mandela

Some Dm used to come up and tell us at bedtime if there was something she was particularly shocked by: Hillsborough, Kings Cross Fire, Jamie Bulger

Dunblane I was on a coach and saw the newspaper headlines

Diana I was at a kids camp as a helper and we had a debate about whether to tell the kids or not. Then they came down and we found one of them had a radio and had heard it and passed it round.

9/11 I was home with baby dd, and used to put the radio on around 2-3pm for company while she played. I spent an hour thinking this was a rather rubbish radio play with not much plot as all there seemed to be was a breathless reporter saying not a lot (looking back clearly shocked) with background noise. When I realised that it had gone on too long, I began to wonder and tried to get the BBC website which was totally down, and then I began to suspect there was something major going on, but not having a TV and the (dial up) internet overwhelmed was very limited what I could find out.

7/7 I had a phone call from someone who thought that because we live in the south, then we must be at risk. No we aren't near the tube, and no we don't generally go into London during the term time.

9/11, Grenfell and Ariana Grande Manchester attack.

I was very young when President Kennedy was assignated. I can remember being in the car and hearing my parents talking, knowing something awful had happened. Years later realised what.

Sadly so many more recently. Lockerbie, Dunblane, Grenfell.

Nelson Mandela being released, the bumper issue of Eastenders was moved to BBC2. 9/11 had turned on the TV for Watercolour Challenge nd thought some dreadful horror film was on.

So many famous people dying.......

John Lennon at school

Princess Diana, had just got home from a ball, and her funeral was on our 11th wedding anniversary

9/11 - lunchtime in my class room in my NQT year, next lesson on Islam!

Two events I remember clearly. My mum waking me up and telling me about Princess Diana, I remember watching the tv and crying my eyes out.
The second event was my mum telling me that my dad had died, I was in my bedroom.

Early 30s

I was at a sleepover when diana died, it was announced in church that morning which wse when I heard.

I was in Glasgow in debenhams when I heard about the (failed) attack on Glasgow airport.

I was in secondary school on 9/11 and found out on my way home. I knew something had as one of my teachers came out and spoke to another when we were on the pitch for pe.

I wandered in to a bar in France on 7/7 - there was a group of very upset English families watching the TV.

Manchester arena - I was lying in bed reading Twitter when I noticed something trending, same with grenfell.

Things have

Moon landing - it was at night after our bedtime but my dad came and woke me and my brother and brought us downstairs to watch it.
Elvis - walking through my local town center and saw the headline on the local evening paper stand.
John Lennon - studying in Spain, heard it in the radio at a nearby cafe during morning break.
Live Aid - had to work that day, no work got done because we watched it on the office tv.
Princess Diana - ex-h woke me with a cup of tea (he had his good points) and told me.
9/11 - I went to take my boss some post and he was watching it unfold on his pc, tears streaming down his face. Surreal.

Moon Landing - in my friends house watching it on tv.

Harrods Bombing- came on the radio in the car as we were driving to Harrods.

9/11- pregnant with Ds. I put the tv on to do some ironing and was watching when i saw the plane that seemed to be circling round and then it hit the 2nd tower.

Kennedy assassination- I was vaguely aware as I was quite young that he had been shot and killed.

Princess Diana’s death- was the Sunday before we moved into our new house and we were staying with friends.
Just got back from a meal out and the news flash came on the tv.

Falkland Islands invasion- in a pub when a friend ran in and told us the news

I'm mid 30's and remember Princess Diana dying, I put the radio on in my room and they were playing the national anthem. For some reason I thought princess Margaret must have died. My dad had just got out the shower and I told him and he went out into the garden in just his pants to tell my mum who was putting the washing out.

The queen mother, I was driving home from work at the pub and heard it on the radio.

9/11 I was in 6th form and our teacher was 40 mins late to our lesson after lunch as they'd all been watching tv in the staff room. When I got home I sat and watched sky new for hours with my dad.

7/7 I was at work at Boots and my friend was panicking because his dad was meant to be going to London for work that day. We found out around lunch time that he'd not gone, I can't remember why.

Michael Jackson dying, I was in bed with DH and we had the tv on.

Dunblane I remember my mum telling me about it, I was standing in the kitchen and she was in tears, she was an infant class teacher.

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman going missing, I remember following it on the news and saying to my dad I thought Ian Huntley had done it when he gave that tv interview.

Gordon Brown's little baby daughter Jennifer dying, I was in the pub and heard it on the radio, I wasn't a fan of his but I'd been hoping more than anything that she pulled through.

9/11 - I was at work. The abiding memory I have of the following days was how clear and bright blue the sky was without aircraft and the birdsong all day (I suppose it had been drowned out by the noise, what with living/working over one of the common areas for stacking before final approach for Heathrow/a private airport - and how, when on my way home from work as the first plane crossed the sky afterwards, how every single commuter slowly looked up in silence and watched it.

With the death of Diana, I'd been out with my boyfriend the night before and left the radio on overnight. I heard an initial news broadcast saying she'd been hurt, had a broken arm, but was OK. I went to sleep and was woken up with really crappy music playing - and then heard that she was actually dead.

I did wonder whether I'd dreamed that, but DP says exactly the same thing, as he was up overnight, watching TV, where he lived - and was told he was making it up by his grandparents and parents because she was dead and 'they'd have never said she was just hurt' - as does another of my old schoolmates. We can't have been the only three people awake at that time of night

The Dunblane school shooting, I was home early from sixth form college. My Dad was picking me up from the station and it had been on the radio while he was waiting, never known him teary like that ever.

Diana was first time my now dh stayed at my parents. It was very early days but he'd got stuck with no where to stay that night. I was restless and had got up to watch tv in the middle of the night as a distraction and was watching live as news came through.

9/11 I had just got in from work and say down with a drink and it must have been seconds after the first plane hit. I remember the horror of watching it all unfold like it was yesterday.

7/7 London attacks I was at the dentist. I didn't think it was real at first then the dental nurse seemed to twig it was and ran out to call someone.

Diana's death
9/11
Freddie Mercury's death
7/7 as I was in midst of it all

9/11 & 7/7 / I worked in operator services for both of these and remember it being absolute chaos.