Off Topic Historic moments you'll never forget

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Febbos

Febbos

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I just finished watching "United 93", haven't seen it since the release back in 2006.
Gave me both goosebumps and flashbacks to that day back in September 2001.

I was just 10, so couldn't really grasp the whole situation.
Had just gotten back from school and sat down in the living room to watch some good ol' VHS. I switched on the tele and remember seeing some replay of that second plane hitting the tower, first thinking it was some film. I remembered being very confused about it, couldn't take my eyes away at the same time. Could hear my mom talking to some friend on the phone in the kitchen and started yelling at her to come, took ages from what I recall.

"I think New York is on fire"

Still got a vivid print in my memory of her shocked facial expression when she walked in and started to realize what had happened.

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I know that most of you are older than me, so feel free to recall some memories you've got, from the same day or something completely different.
 
Febbos said:
I just finished watching "United 93", haven't seen it since the release back in 2006.
Gave me both goosebumps and flashbacks to that day back in September 2001.

I was just 10, so couldn't really grasp the whole situation.
Had just gotten back from school and sat down in the living room to watch some good ol' VHS. I switched on the tele and remember seeing some replay of that second plane hitting the tower, first thinking it was some film. I remembered being very confused about it, couldn't take my eyes away at the same time. Could hear my mom talking to some friend on the phone in the kitchen and started yelling at her to come, took ages from what I recall.

"I think New York is on fire"

Still got a vivid print in my memory of her shocked facial expression when she walked in and started to realize what had happened.

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I know that most of you are older than me, so feel free to recall some memories you've got, from the same day or something completely different.
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My husband was watching on TV the US stock market CNBC programme "Squawk Box" when he woke me up to tell me they were showing live coverage of the first tower burning after being hit . We watched the second plane hit and the aftermath for about another 2 hours. Total confusion in the studio as reports and speculation filtered in together with numerous replays of the 2 hits.
 
"McShane's got the other side of Nosworthy ...."!! :emoticon-0136-giggl Yeah, I also always used to mix up (S P) McShane and Jay Simpson. So similar.

Cameron Stewart on fire. Looked a world beater for a (short) while.
 
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JFK assassination was the first one for me. First one with extensive TV coverage. (I was 7).
 
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The early days of TV where there was great excitement at a grainy picture flickering from across the Channel.
Then even more excitement later at ones live from the USA. Which was why the Real Madrid 7 Eintracht Frankfurt 3 European Cup Final was memorable to anyone around at the time. In those pre satellite days it was the first chance to see a European Cup Final live and see the likes of Di Stefano and Puskas. Bill Shankly’s dad died at that game. You got the impression Shanks thought what a way to go when he talked about it.
 
Weird and not really that significant one in the grand scheme of things, but I still recall vividly to this day when Ben Hollioake's death was reported, it was the first time i'd experienced a still active and playing 'sporting icon' passing prematurely
 
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On a serious note: Despite being young I do clearly remember 9/11, that was the moment everything changed, it gets even more obvious with every passing year just how much has been affected by it. But the London bombings in 2005... I was in London at the time, thankfully I wasn't around the actual events themselves as they happened during rush hour, but as a young lad it was bloody terrifying being that close to it.


On a less serious note but coincidentally linked: 2012 London Olympics, that Saturday. The whole day was superb, but obviously the Olympic Stadium itself was the place. Went courtesy of a mate, though I was actually annoyed at the time as I really wanted tickets for the velodrome (I ended up taking a gamble on the final day of the velodrome and actually managed to get a ticket for it). Turns out I was at the best night of athletics in Team GB's history and probably my fave non-City thing I've ever been at.
 
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Cuban missile crisis. Other sixties stuff, moon landing and assination of JFK. Jack Charlton giving away a free kick at 2-1, pictures of a toothless Nobby Stiles dancing around Wembley. Mini skirts.

Fast forward, waking up to pictures of a wrecked car in Paris.

The most haunting? The Twin Towers. As much as the event itself, the thought that not one of those involved thought " whoa this is madness, no."
 
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Asterix said:
Cuban missile crisis. Other sixties stuff, moon landing and assination of JFK. Jack Charlton giving away a free kick at 2-1, pictures of a toothless Nobby Stiles dancing around Wembley. Mini skirts.

Fast forward, waking up to pictures of a wrecked car in Paris.

The most haunting? The Twin Towers. As much as the event itself, the thought that not one of those involved thought " whoa this is madness, no."
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Bobby Moore showing his sense of class, even at the greatest moment in his life, wiping his muddy hands on his shirt before shaking hands with the Queen.
 
Four outstanding memories.
First of all during the Simon Cawkill days. The club organised for fans to take penalty kicks at the South Stand goal. There was a sheet across the goal with three holes in it. Two quite large ones and if the kicker put the ball through them they won £50 or something, and the third hole, just ball sized right in the top corner of the goal. If you put the ball through that with your first kick you won a new car, which was parked on the pitch at the West Stand/South Stand corner. This was the first game this new competition had been unveiled and the club thought it would run for the full season. So up stepped Ozzie, all 20 stone of him, walked up and smacked the ball straight through the smaller hole first time. The crowd went mad and Ozzie set off running around the pitch waving his shirt in the air. A quick rule change cheated Ozzie out of the car when it was announced by a shame faced Cawkill that you had to put the ball through one of the bigger holes first.
Second, half time again, North Stand goal this time with a packed Kempton looking on.
A well known face in the Kempton was taking one of the penalty kicks of which he'd announced to all and sundry for a fortnight leading up to the game and the other was taken by a young lady in high heels and wearing a mini skirt.
The pitch was thick mud. The 'face' warmed up, did all the stretches, bounced the ball on the spot, turned and waved to the crowd, then ran up....and slipped straight on his arse just managing to roll the ball forward about six inches with a full Kempton chanting 'You fat bastard' The young lady wiggled up and sent the keeper the wrong way nestling the ball in the corner of the net expertly, high heels and all.
3. Sheff United away 70/71
4. Sheff Utd away as posted above.
 
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Urika Peece. said:
Four outstanding memories.
First of all during the Simon Cawkill days. The club organised for fans to take penalty kicks at the South Stand goal. There was a sheet across the goal with three holes in it. Two quite large ones and if the kicker put the ball through them they won £50 or something, and the third hole, just ball sized right in the top corner of the goal. If you put the ball through that with your first kick you won a new car, which was parked on the pitch at the West Stand/South Stand corner. This was the first game this new competition had been unveiled and the club thought it would run for the full season. So up stepped Ozzie, all 20 stone of him, walked up and smacked the ball straight through the smaller hole first time. The crowd went mad and Ozzie set off running around the pitch waving his shirt in the air. A quick rule change cheated Ozzie out of the car when it was announced by a shame faced Cawkill that you had to put the ball through one of the bigger holes first.
Second, half time again, North Stand goal this time with a packed Kempton looking on.
A well known face in the Kempton was taking one of the penalty kicks of which he'd announced to all and sundry for a fortnight leading up to the game and the other was taken by a young lady in high heels and wearing a mini skirt.
The pitch was thick mud. The 'face' warmed up, did all the stretches, bounced the ball on the spot, turned and waved to the crowd, then ran up....and slipped straight on his arse just managing to roll the ball forward about six inches with a full Kempton chanting 'You fat bastard' The young lady wiggled up and sent the keeper the wrong way nestling the ball in the corner of the net expertly, high heels and all.
3. Sheff United away 70/71
4. Sheff Utd away as posted above.
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Remember those football competition incidents well. Also remember someone who had been on disability benefits for decades claiming a bad back stopped him working and who wangled a parking space for him and his mates who used to get out walking sticks to hobble to the turnstiles at the KC and get free away tickets, at BP winning a weekend on NSF by shooting the ball through a hole and making a miraculous, but temporary recovery, and cartwheel his way to the centre circle.
 
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BrisbaneTiger said:
The historic moment I will never forget is probably only known by Hull folk, and that is the Humbrol Fire.
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Someone I know from Brid missed sailing on one of them as the train to Hull broke down and he was late.
Unbelievably he missed another trawler sailing which also sank, from Grimsby I think, and decided his sea going days were over. A poster on here had two mates who went down on their first trip.
 
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On a serious note: Despite being young I do clearly remember 9/11, that was the moment everything changed, it gets even more obvious with every passing year just how much has been affected by it. But the London bombings in 2005... I was in London at the time, thankfully I wasn't around the actual events themselves as they happened during rush hour, but as a young lad it was bloody terrifying being that close to it.


On a less serious note but coincidentally linked: 2012 London Olympics, that Saturday. The whole day was superb, but obviously the Olympic Stadium itself was the place. Went courtesy of a mate, though I was actually annoyed at the time as I really wanted tickets for the velodrome (I ended up taking a gamble on the final day of the velodrome and actually managed to get a ticket for it). Turns out I was at the best night of athletics in Team GB's history and probably my fave non-City thing I've ever been at.
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I'd echo both of these as good an bad memories. I was on the tube commuting to work in 2005, got evacuated and then remember walking to work, being confused why the streets were so busy and then everything unfolding as I got into the office. It was an awful day trying to make sure all friends and colleagues were safe which wasn't easy as the mobile network went down whilst simultaneously coming to terms with the tragedy right on your doorstep.

In 2012 I was watching the Handball in the Olympic park early evening and then stuck around to watch the athletics on the big screen in the park - even though I wasn't in the stadium itself the atmosphere in the park was electric and it was slightly surreal to watch the momentous Gold medals on the screen whilst simultaneously hearing the roars coming out of the stadium, can only imagine what it was like to have been in there.

Other memory for me is the Berlin wall coming down - I was old enough to realise this was a truly momentous occasion but probably not old enough to fully understand the significance of it
 
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The 1968 triple trawler tragedy the whole city was in mourning, r.i.p. the victim's.
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That was indeed a bad time for Hull as was the Gaul disappearing a few years later.
I also remember attending a quickly organised fund raiser for the triple trawler tragedy families between Hull City and Motherwell at Boothferry Park. Also a distant memory of Harold Needler making a sizable donation to the appeal fund. I don't remember the club getting any recognition for that at all at the time.
 
Another big one for me is the tsunami disaster 2004.

Hard to watch this clip without getting chills.
"Maybe the earthquake affected the water?"
"Naaah"

"Look, all the thais are running"

"We should warn the tourists"

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