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Post by Moose on Aug 31, 2017 20:06:45 GMT
Princess Diana's death ... that seems to have gone incredibly fast and yet the world has changed in such a big way since then. So, what were people doing when they heard the news ?
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Post by Kye on Aug 31, 2017 20:49:11 GMT
It's funny --she was a very minor character in our collective experience in Quebec, but I do remember that I was on vacation with my ex and the kids when I heard she had died.
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Post by tangent on Aug 31, 2017 21:47:49 GMT
I remember her death very well but I don't know what I was doing at the time. I was probably at work when I heard the news.
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Post by Sarah W. on Aug 31, 2017 23:24:55 GMT
I do remember where I was and what I was doing when I found out she died, which is weird because it was the first time I'd ever heard of her. I was rollerblading on our front sidewalk with my best friend at the time and she said "Princess Di died." and I said "Who?". Heather couldn't believe that I hadn't heard of her. I was only 10 at the time, though.
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Post by Moose on Sept 1, 2017 18:46:50 GMT
You'd never heard of Diana?
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Post by JoeP on Sept 1, 2017 19:15:14 GMT
Diana who?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Sept 2, 2017 9:27:17 GMT
I was getting ready to go out to my first nightclub and was trying to choose an outfit. They had an under 18s night once a month or something like that. I heard it on the radio and couldn't believe the news. I can even still remember what I wore.
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Post by Elis on Sept 2, 2017 22:15:18 GMT
I was 12 and I think it was just a few days before the end of our summer holidays. An elderly teacher had done almost an entire lesson on "Lady Di" the previous school year and that morning my mother told me and said my teacher must be inconsolable. I think I was on my way to the bathroom when my mother told me.
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Post by tangent on Sept 3, 2017 0:19:20 GMT
Gosh, you can remember all that?
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Post by Moose on Sept 3, 2017 18:50:16 GMT
Do you not remember what you were doing Steve? No matter what age someone is, an event like that normally sticks in the mind
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Post by tangent on Sept 3, 2017 20:51:52 GMT
No, I don't even know what I was doing when Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon.
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Post by Moose on Sept 3, 2017 20:52:54 GMT
You didn't watch it?!
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Post by tangent on Sept 3, 2017 21:05:23 GMT
The moon landing took place at 9:17pm UK time on 20 July 1969 and so I would probably have watched it if I had had a TV. But I can't remember where I was living. I had a couple of years living in digs where the landlady didn't have a TV but I think at that time, I was living in a young person's hostel. In which case, there was a TV in an adjacent building but it was a short walk away. I'm pretty sure I would have been asleep when the small step for man, giant leap for mankind took place.
But I don't get this idea that some people can remember what they were doing when a particular news event was announced. I can only deduce what I might have been doing when Princes Diana died or when the moon landing took place, based on my likely activities. I certainly have no recollection of being in a certain place at a certain time. On the other hand, I can remember where my colleague Sara was because she told us her husband had woken her with some very sad news.
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Post by juju on Sept 4, 2017 7:47:54 GMT
I completely remember when Diana died. It was a Sunday morning, Eden was 5 and came into the bedroom complaining that there was only news on the telly (he usually watched children's TV if he got up before us). I told him to try different channels but he came back saying it was all news on every channel. At that point I got up, and guessed something was wrong if there was only news on.
I remember feeling incredibly shocked to the point of panic that this had happened, it shook me up a lot. I think this was because Diana was only slightly older than me and was the mother of two boys, which I was also at that time. Of course I didn't know her but she was the most famous woman in the country (if not the world, at that time) and I couldn't believe this could happen to someone like that. I think it made me feel like if that could happen, anything could. Nothing was safe.
I was also terribly sad for her boys growing up without a mother. Again, I felt that personally and projected onto my boys, I suppose. I remember feeling very weepy all week. I'm not a royalist but I liked Diana as she seemed like a genuine person. I couldn't really care less about the rest of them.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 4, 2017 15:37:59 GMT
Hmmm...I knew who Diana was, but not being a royalty fan, I never paid much attention. I think I heard about her demise some time during the week following the event.
Events which I remember where I was and what I was doing include the first moon landing, the Challenger explosion, the 9-11 attacks, and some assassinations.
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Post by juju on Sept 4, 2017 19:02:45 GMT
I remember the Challenger very well, and also 9/11 (I think that was the first time many people realised Americans write their dates differently to us, lol). Actually, I confess I'd never heard of the World Trade Center before that...
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Post by tangent on Sept 5, 2017 5:54:44 GMT
I remember where I was at the time of the 9/11 attacks, the only significant event where I do remember.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 5, 2017 5:59:07 GMT
I remember the Challenger very well, and also 9/11 (I think that was the first time many people realised Americans write their dates differently to us, lol). Actually, I confess I'd never heard of the World Trade Center before that... Heh...I'd been to NYC and to the top of the World Trade Center where my testicles retracted looking down through the safety glass. 9-1-1 is not only a sloppy American-style date, it is the emergency call number nationwide. The Armstrong moon walk was on my 16th birthday, and I was an aerospace nerd, so I have some pretty vivid memories of that event.
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Post by tangent on Sept 5, 2017 5:59:56 GMT
Is that a coincidence?
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 5, 2017 6:01:56 GMT
The date/emergency number thing? I dunno. I think the only ones who could answer that are dead now.
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Post by jayme on Sept 5, 2017 22:34:29 GMT
I think it was around 11 pm, and I was watching some program on PBS, when my show was interrupted by the BBC. It was kind of surreal, because the BBC doesn't normally interrupt American tv stations. Some news anchor was saying he had an unconfirmed report that Princess Diana has died. I stayed up, glued to the tv. They showed the car, described what had happened, and eventually got a confirmed report. Then I watched the sunrise in London, and went to bed.
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Post by Alvamiga on Sept 9, 2017 11:01:35 GMT
I woke up in the morning and couldn't work out why the TV was just showing a rolling loop of footage of Charles and Di stuff. It took them some time before a person came on and actually said why. Seemed very strange to not even put a caption up.
I remember being particularly moved by it. I think she had lost a lot of any respect I had after that terrible attempt at manipulating pubic opinion in that interview with Martin Bashir a couple of years previously.
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Post by Moose on Sept 9, 2017 20:32:06 GMT
I was traveling between Crawley and London and my ex and I were listening to headphones as we walked to the station. He was listening to the radio and he suddenly stopped, took out a headphone and said 'Diana's dead' in a tone of surprise. I didn't believe him and after some talk took the headphone from him but it had gone to music then ..
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Post by yooperguy on Nov 5, 2018 8:50:13 GMT
I was having trouble sleeping so I got up around 1AM US time and went downstairs and turn on the TV. I turned on CNN and there was a live feed from the tunnel where accident had taken place.
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