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What is the most historic event you witnessed?

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  • #62
    Biscuits.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭Biscuits.


    I was there.....when the whole of Ireland failed maths.

    The SEC made sure to make project maths look good by making HL and OL papers too hard, but they forgot that project maths isn't practical at all, entirely new without resources and nothing like our sample papers.

    It was horrific.


  • #63
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,222 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    I think tv can be used especially for something like 9/11 as its one of those things that everyone always remebers where they were and what they were doing when it happened.

    Also for me being in pairs for the Ireland game when henry handballed still was a great hol though Irish fans rule the world.

    Also getting to see Oasis at slane before they broke up.


  • #64
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    I witnessed the first Aer Lingus Boeing 747 100 series to land at Dublin Airport in 1971 as a child

    Watched the Stenna Explorer HSS 1500 make its maiden voyage into Dunlaoghaire Harbour in 1996.

    I may be soon witnessing its last voyage. :mad:


  • #65
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    Playing the tin whistle in the local national school boy's band at the Knock Airport opening ceremony :).


  • #66
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    NothingMan wrote: »
    Saw The Smashing Pumpkins first last ever show. I won't be seeing their next one.

    I was at those shows as well (United Center and Metro).


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  • #67
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    * 9/11
    * Berlin Wall falling
    * TV moving from black and white to broadcasting in colour (Gawd I remember the test cards and TV closing down at night LOL)
    * The Manchester Arndale Shopping Centre bombing (was far too close for comfort on that!)
    * Any number of wars long since passed.
    * The breakup of Czechoslovakia and former USSR
    * The whole South Africa turn about.

    Thats just a few off the top of my head.


  • #68
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Don't think I have witnessed anything particularly historic.

    The last Nine Inch Nail gig is literally all I can come up with!


  • #69
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    *The Prague Spring (as a nine year old being terrified by it).

    *Moon Landings (in colour in RTV rentals:D)

    *The first World Cup Final I can remember in 1970 (Brazil 4 - 1 Italy).

    *Colour TV.

    *'Piped' TV.

    *Bloody Sunday

    *3 General Elections in 18 months

    *H Block hunger Strikes.

    *American withdrawal from Vietnam.

    *Concorde's maiden flight.

    *Space Shuttle's maiden flight

    *1st Satellite TV signals in Ireland (from Russia).

    *Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan.

    *First VCRs

    *First CDs

    *Fall of Communism & The Berlin Wall.

    *First Mobile phones

    *Italia '90.:D

    *Gulf War

    *First MP3s

    *The internet.

    *First DVDs

    *9/11

    *The greatest European Cup Final of all time in 2005 (AC Milan v Liverpool).

    *The closure of a national Institution - Waterford Crystal - for the sake of a now paltry €25m. Weeks later billions were squandered on banks.

    *Killing of Bin Laden

    *Along with several Oil Crises. First one I remember was in 1973.


  • #70
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    tHe_reD_ctrL wrote: »
    what about concordes last flight?

    Yep. That would be up there as well. Another tragic event caused by human error, unfortunately.


  • #71
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i was on the first ever passenger service of the luas green line


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  • #72
    sgb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBfrO_Cqo8 On tv Winston Churchill funeral. Perhaps history will make the visit of Queen Elizabeth 11 visit to Ireland right up there


  • #73
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    NothingMan wrote: »
    I was there! Despite having little or no interest in football I got some of the best seats in Wembley, all free thanks to working for the sponsoring company of Portsmouth at the time!

    Match was forgettable, nice pints afterwards though.

    All that is wrong with modern football in one post!

    Any historic event I've witnessed in person were sporting events. Ireland 1 Holland 0 being my personal choice. Wicklow winning the Tommy Murphy Cup is up there though :pac:

    Not going to bother listing events I saw on TV as we've all watched the same things on TV!


  • #74
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    LONG LIST

    Those too for me.

    Jeasus - we must be old! LOL :D


  • #75
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Missed the London 7/7 bombs by about 20 minutes. Heard the IRA bomb outside the BBC in Shepherd's Bush (I lived about 1/4 of a mile away and was in bed at the time). Weirdest one was I was flying into Thailand when the Tsunami hit, and was supposed to be getting a connecting flight to Phuket. Didn't know if one of my friends was dead or alive for about 3 days (turns out he'd buggered off to Chang Mai and was in the jungle somewhere without a phone). I've been weirdly close to disaster a few times. My younger brother was even closer, walking out of the exit of King's Cross underground just when the alarms started going off for a fire that killed 40 odd people.


  • #76
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I remember watching the American withdrawl from Saigon on television with the last of the huey helicoptors taken the Ambassador / staff / MP's /GI's and lucky refugees off the roof of the American Embassey out to waiting war ships at sea , while the unlucky ones outside the gates were left to wait their faith from the soon to arrive Viet Cong . This ended 12 long years of American involvement in Vietnam that cost 60,000 American deaths and millions of Vietnamese .The South Vietnamese felt the Americans had abandoned them .


  • #77
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Forgot about one:

    Terrorist Dominic McGlinchey been shot in a phone box in Drogheda, yards away from me while I was out walking our family pet dog.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_McGlinchey#Death

    (His family used to live in Stameen, Drogheda and I used to know them too!)


  • #78
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    Biggins wrote: »
    Those too for me.

    Jeasus - we must be old! LOL :D

    At almost 52 the word 'creaking' comes to mind...........;):D


  • #79
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Freddie59 wrote: »
    At almost 52 the word 'creaking' comes to mind...........;):D
    Speak for yourself, I still use a lot of lube! :D;)


  • #80
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,445 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I think I was about 9 when my teacher came in to the class a bit sullen and announced Margret Thatcher's resigning. I remember jumping up and cheering. think I was the only one, the teacher was shocked. :D

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #81
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    2 days after the last exam I ever took on 13 July 1985 at Wembley Stadium - still have the "Global Jukebox" T-Shirt saying "Live Aid - I was there"

    Took 550 photos that day from my position about 20-30 metres from the front of the stage


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  • #82
    Bonkers_xOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Bonkers_xOx


    I sat the Leaving Cert honours Maths paper 1 in 2011, you know the one the devil made? That was a first...


  • #83
    MightyMighty737
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭MightyMighty737


    Bonkers_xOx wrote: »
    I sat the Leaving Cert honours Maths paper 1 in 2011, you know the one the devil made? That was a first...

    I sat English paper 2 on a Saturday..


  • #84
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    i Witnnessed, before it was Oxegen...


  • #85
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I'm beginning to think OP should have put 'world wide ' in between 'historic event ' :pac:


  • #86
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Latchy wrote: »
    I'm beginning to think OP should have put 'world wide ' in between 'historic event ' :pac:
    I'm sure that was implied. :)


  • #87
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Biggins wrote: »
    I'm sure that was implied. :)
    It was :)


  • #88
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    I was there when Biggins replied to Latchy in what my grandchildren will know as the first assertion of the widespread 'Historical Global Implication Principle".


  • #89
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    I was in a hotel quite close to the royal palace in Kathmandu one Friday night in early June 2001. We partied until the early hours of Saturday morning, but I still woke up at around six and, very groggy, went down to the reception to see if I could get some tea. Everyone was freaking out and I asked what was up. The clerk said: "Sir, big killing, all royal family dead!"

    It was on the tip of my tongue to ask: "Where can I buy champagne?" until it hit me that he wasn't referring to that royal family, but to the local one - Nepal was a monarchy then, too. It seems the crown prince had lost his cool and killed nine of his family, then himself. It was pretty dicey for the next few days, what with a curfew and police baton charges and all, but I spent some baksheesh and got to the airport and onto a flight for Moscow, and then home.

    Then, later that year, I saw the Twin Towers go down live on CNN. Makes you wonder what will happen next.


  • #90
    theparish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭theparish


    Getting a paid days holidays to reflect on the 9/11 attack while American citizens put the shoulder to the wheel at their place of work.

    The Y2K bug,that was a serious party and hangover,thankfully all the beer coolers worked.


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  • #91
    ArseBook
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭ArseBook


    9/11 without a doubt, the Berlin Wall coming a close second. It's astonishing to see the world completely changing as a result of a day's events.

    Obama/Queen visits were right up there for the month until I scratched my arse five minutes later. That overtook them.


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