What is the most historic event you witnessed?

iamstop · 10-06-2011 03:50PM #1

I'd say many people will now say the Queen or Obama's visit, some may even have been in NY for 9/11, any others?

Cookie_Monster · 10-06-2011 03:51PM

11/9 (on the telly though)

kraggy · 10-06-2011 03:53PM

9/11. In the flesh.

Got covered head to toe in the dust from the buildings.

kippy · 10-06-2011 03:54PM

9/11 in New York.

1mcampo1 · 10-06-2011 03:56PM

Millennium?

kfallon · 10-06-2011 03:57PM

My own birth.....don't remember much of it tho!

Fremen · 10-06-2011 03:57PM

Berlin wall coming down. It's one of my earliest memories.

JohnP199 · 10-06-2011 03:59PM

The 2010 Ice Age

Rented Mule · 10-06-2011 04:01PM

I was at Stevie Ray Vaughn's farewell performance.

Latchy · 10-06-2011 04:02PM

kraggy wrote: »

9/11. In the flesh.

Got covered head to toe in the dust from the buildings.

As with two people I know who had only left the WTC five minutes before the first plane crashed .They hung around to watch the collapse of both towers .

The Berlin wall ...

I was at sea when 9/11 happened with the only tv available at the time on the ships bridge so the Queens vist would be the most historic , that I witnessed live on BBC 24 hr news and RTE player .

krudler · 10-06-2011 04:04PM

on tv, 9/11 definitely, was on holidays in the Canaries at the time and due to fly home a couple of days later,were out getting some hangover breakfast and saws crowds of people around a tv in a pub, saw the second plane hit it was crazy.

Mena · 10-06-2011 04:04PM

11th of Feb, 1990, witnessing Mandela released from prison in Paarl.

problemchimp · 10-06-2011 04:10PM

The popes mass in the phoenix park 1979, Italia '90 in a camper van with the lads. We were young, single and we had hair!! I'm assuming you mean events witnessed in the flesh, not on T.V. Also I got whalloped by a police man during the poll tax riots in London and I was only on my way home from work, I didn't give a shiite if the locals had to pay poll tax.

KeithM89_old · 10-06-2011 04:12PM

Probably the sinking of the Titanic back in 1997....:p

Ghost Buster · 10-06-2011 04:13PM

The nutter storming onto the Late late Show set and calling Pat Kenny 'an insufferable ass hole"

lucylu · 10-06-2011 04:13PM

May 1994 Ireland Winning the Eurovision 3 in a row and a record 7th time

enda1 · 10-06-2011 04:14PM

Mine would be mostly sporting.

Ireland thumping England in rugby at Croke Park after hearing the UK national anthem being played there for the first time.

France playing basketball in Paris to knock us out of the play-offs for the world cup.

GavRedKing · 10-06-2011 04:14PM

Watched 9/11 on holidays, Obama and the Queen on Rte player in work.

I was over at the France v Ireland Thierry Henry handball so thats my most historic event to date ive witnessed in the flesh.

moomooman · 10-06-2011 04:14PM

In person, Bill Clintons speech in college green, Jack Charlton and the lads in college green again... Zooropa in the RDS :pac:

Thats pretty lame in fairness.

NothingMan · 10-06-2011 04:15PM

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

Dravokivich · 10-06-2011 04:16PM

The fireworks display by the USS JFK out in Dun Leereee. Probably not historic, but it was quite an event. It got damaged by a floating platform next to it. haha, anyone with Shore Leave couldn't go back on board.

enda1 · 10-06-2011 04:18PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

The fireworks display by the USS JFK out in Dun Leereee. Probably not historic, but it was quite an event. It got damaged by a floating platform next to it. haha, anyone with Shore Leave couldn't go back on board.

I'd say that was many a Navy man's excuse for shacking up for the night with our local fillies!

Dravokivich · 10-06-2011 04:19PM

enda1 wrote: »

I'd say that was many a Navy man's excuse for shacking up for the night with our local fillies!

ah, destiny has a weird way of working out like that.

Officially though, they ended up having to sleep in the warehouse next to Stena Line's dock.

Opelfruit · 10-06-2011 04:25PM

I was there when they managed to fit the internet into a computer for the first time.

KTRIC · 10-06-2011 04:25PM

The bombing of Canary Worf in 2012

Oh sh!te I said too much

chopperbyrne · 10-06-2011 04:26PM

Watching the second plane hit the WTC live on television.

iamstop · 10-06-2011 04:35PM

I was in Chicago for 9/11. I skateboarded down town. The place was empty bar a few police. Most of the roads were blocked off with those blue wooden road blocker things. Was so surreal having a Chicago copper, who normally despise all things skater, just give me a nod and move the barrier for me. The lack of noise in such a city was eerie.

Ray Palmer · 10-06-2011 04:40PM

I would have thought witnessing something would really mean seeing it in person and not on TV

I was in Time Square when Obama won the election. I actually saw film crew video tapping somebody screaming down the phone about how he won. What was funny was I saw her run to the phone not dial and start screaming. So she wasn't talking to anybody and the crew didn't see that bit :rolleyes:

Saw the Pope in Phoenix Park but not really historical if you ask me now.

Opelfruit · 10-06-2011 04:43PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

The fireworks display by the USS JFK out in Dun Leereee. Probably not historic, but it was quite an event. It got damaged by a floating platform next to it. haha, anyone with Shore Leave couldn't go back on board.

enda1 wrote: »

I'd say that was many a Navy man's excuse for shacking up for the night with our local fillies!

That event always reminded me of the movie Mutiny on the Bounty!

Smegball · 10-06-2011 04:45PM

My birth on homevideo!

bijapos · 10-06-2011 04:46PM

Sport: I was at the 76, 77, 78, 79 and 80 All Ireland finals, as a small kid, and I was at most of the semi finals of those years too, so I got the whole Dublin-Kerry thing of the 70's, one of the most memorable times in the history of GAA. Worked at the 1998 World Cup went to 7 matches and was in the stadium for the final and afterwards on the Champs Elysee.

And sadly trying to translate, in my then poor German, a German paper for two mates from Liverpool the day after the Hillsborough tragedy. One of them, we found out later that day lost a cousin.

Other: Standing outside the Hungarian Embassy in Bucharest in Summer 1989, not long after the Hungarians had decided to let anyone cross their border with Austria. The dominos had started to fall. I had an Irish passport and had no issue leaving Romania but the elation on the faces of those, (who were almost all East Germans) who got a visa to go to Hungary, meaning they could continue on to Austria and then Germany was unforgettable. A couple of days later I was in Budapest and the place was in turmoil, thousands waiting to get trains to go West. The feeling at the time was that it would only last a few weeks and that then the border would be closed so the time to get out was now.

Just writing this, remembering those few days makes the hair stand on the back of my neck all over again. I was changing money on the black market like there was no tomorrow and buying beers and cheap Sekt for everyone, it shortened my holiday by a couple of weeks but that was history in the making and I'm glad I realised it at the time.

What is the most historic event you witnessed?

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