When the Berlin Wall came down I remember sitting up all night watching and taping the footage. I still have the tapes of it and have recently put them onto new VHS tapes. I was 17 and in year 11 at Glendale High School (Newcastle Australia)

When the Challenger exploded I was 13 (turned 14 in May of 86). I remember waking up really early next to my girlfriend of the time (she was the daughter of a family friend and we were secretly a couple). I turned on the TV and there it was. My girlfriend went back to her home state 2 days later and I didnt see her again until December 1996.

When John Lennon was shot I remember I was sitting in front of a TV crying...I was 8, and I loved John Lennon.

When Elvis died I was 5 and I cried then as well. I remember hearing how he died on the toilet. Such an undignified end for such a great man.

I remember sitting up with my friend for an entire 48 hours taping all the footage of the 9/11 attacks in the USA. I have copies of this as well.

The second Russian Revolution (3 days when I remember thinking that we were all about to be blown to dust by nuclear conflict) I taped every thing on the news about it. I still have that tape.

When US planes bombed Tripoli in 1986 I remember going to school and all the girls were crying because they believed that a nuclear war was about to begin. I remember the teacher letting us have lessons out of the class room for History so that we could watch the bombs coming...They never did come.

Other events I remember and have on video:

The death and funeral of Princess Diana

The first and second child abuse allegations against Michael Jackson.

The first US led Gulf War to free kuwait

The second Gulf War (ongoing)

The death and funeral of Pope John Paul the second

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The invasion of Afghanastan by US troops

The release of Nelson Mandela




and there are others, but righ now I dont want to bore people.








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The death and funeral of Princess Diana
I was on the streets of London, close to the Royal Albert Hall to watch the funeral cortege pass by, then it was onto Regents Park to watch the funeral service on a large TV screen.

I was a Junoir in High School and I remember all of the coverage.  David Hasslehoff sang with this jacket that lit up.  I remember watching people litterly taking it down piece by piece with their hands and hitting it with hammers and stuff. I also remember them ontop of the wall singing and celebrating.  8)

I have reason to believe I was at school.

I was in class that day discussing this very event.
The next day, Fri Nov 10 was when Vet's day was obseverd, so there were no classes, so every Vet's day reminds me of the Wall coming down.

I was 23, can remember coming home from work, glued to the TV news, watching Tom Brokaw on NBC covering the event, knowing we were watching history being made in front of us.

It would be less than a year before I was born, so on November 9, 1989, I was yet to be born. But what a great day it was!