Most glorious events in your lifetime?

[The Large One]

To counterbalance the 'shocking events' thread which really kicked my Monday morning off nicely... not.

Try to keep it non-Albion, and if you can non-personal.

I'll start with... Berliners dismantling the Berlin Wall.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Moon landing. As the man said, one giant leap for mankind.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

-germany 1-5 england

-the creation of the iPhone

 

[Brovion]

Moon landing. As the man said, one giant leap for mankind.

Ditto. Those who weren't around at the time don't realise what a HUGE global event it was. Believing that the Americans faked it (and then went on to fake it six more times) is the mark of a true modern idiot.

 

[Simster]

Mandela walking free.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

The release of Nelson Mandela from prison.

 

[catfish]

The moon landing & England winning the World Cup.

 

[Common as Mook]

Obama's election as President

 

[strings]

The day Britain won the Olympics, what an amazing feeling. Completely wrecked by the events of the following day.

 

[Mellotron]

Kicking a duck up the arse.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

This might sound odd, but it was a cause for celebration at the time ... the collapse of the Smith regime and Zimbabwean independence.

 

[Falkor]

Olympics for me but as stated above the following day took a shine of it

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Sorry for me it is everthing about the 1983 FA Cup Final from Monday 16th May - Friday 27th May 1983

 

[Lenny Rider]

This might sound odd, but it was a cause for celebration at the time ... the collapse of the Smith regime and Zimbabwean independence.

But given a free vote now Ed how many would want a Smith like regime back now?

 

[Lenny Rider]

Although I didnt realise at the time, the election of Mrs Thatcher as PM, how we now need someone like her running the country now.

 

[Durlston]

Have to say the Berlin Wall coming down and the end of communism in November 1989. I don't know what it must have been like travelling behind the Iron Curtain to go to football, following England; very grim I imagine. That said, there are still some very run-down places in Poland, Romania and Ukraine that make parts of Liverpool look like Los Angeles. The late-eighties were very depressing with a lot of transport and football disasters so it lifted a lot of the gloom and a brighter future for Eastern Europe.

The killing and capture of Osama Bin Laden in May was also a big breakthrough on terrorism.

 

[Pbseagull]

The Moon landing. Was the first "major" world event I can remember, I was 6 years old and we watched it on a black & White telly in the Gym of my primary School ( St Bartholemews)

 

[AnotherArch]

Almost anything that happened in the sixties. Space: dog - man - moon. Media: pirate radio - TV pictures across the Atlantic - live TV from Mexico '68 Olympics.
66 World Cup of course. Long/individual hairstyles and dress.
Later: my first pocket calulator and then computer - remember you sat A level Maths & Science exams in 1969 using 4-figure Log Tables for any calculations that could not be done longhand or in your head!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Hmm. Was alive for the Moon landing and the WC in '66 but too young to remember either.

The '81 Headingly Ashes test springs to mind. I'll have to think further for anything else, I have a v.bad memory.

 

[bhafc99]

Still waiting for it: Bill Archer's death.