I guess it has been 26 years today since Elvis died, I know a lot of you weren't even born yet, but for those of you who were around, do you remember where you were when you heard the news?
  I was only 11 years old but I remember them breaking into the regular programing on TV and making the anouncement.


                       

too young for that

Whre were you when the El-=Al 747 crashed into the Bijlmermeer (Amsterdam, 4 october 1992 )...

I was 7 at that time, too youg to realize.

The newspaper photo's of the Chernobyl reactor room after the meltdown is something i remember vaguely, but anything before that...


The murder of Pim Fortuiyn (dutch politician), 6th may 2002.
They said that it had happened in the middle of a radio programme on a dutch music station, as someone who had worked there had an interview with him (on another station), but that program was notorious for making fake news statements, so i didn't totally believe it until they said it on the official radio too.

9/11.
I just arrived home, and as i didn't have that much homework i went upstairs to my brothers room for a little talk. He was watching TV (CNN), and a few minutes after i entered his room we saw the second plane hit the building...

I remember 9/11 as I got an SMS from a friend while I was at work, and they said there had been an explosion in NY.
I thought maybe a pipe bomb or something (us Londoners are well hardened to terrorism after 3 decades of it! Or so I thought ).
I got home and switched on the TV, and sat there watching the same broadcast over and over again for about an hour and a half until the wife got home. Then we just sat in front of the TV and only watched the news channels all evening. I was gobsmacked. There just aren't words to describe what happened.
I remember my fear that some of my friends could have been there (they had recently moved to NY), and it was 2 days before I got emails from all of them to say they were okay. That was a relief.

Ozzy

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26 years ago I was 9..........no recollection! I was in a Quonset hut in the pooring rain in the 
Phillipines when the news came over the AFRN, that Stevie Ray Vaugh had died. 

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  I used to run a really boring machine at work, so I would pick up a paper every morning to read between machine cycles, I read about Stevie Ray Vaughn and the helo crash that morning.

  I remember when they found Kurt Cobain's body, I was a big Nirvana fan, and was doing something around the house when the news came over MTV. I was pretty much glued to the TV while the story unfolded.
Really sucked too, because we were around the same age and I was really into Nirvana's music, my band was doing Nirvana covers at the time.

9/11 i was asleep but woke up in the morning with my mother telling me that someone had crashed planes into buildings, it was pretty unbelievable.

9/11 i was in maths. The teacher (who you could have slapped round the face with out him noticing) off handedly said that a couple of planes had hit the world trade center.

Columbia, I was at home. Turned on the telly to see the bit of film of the space shuttle breaking up. Then I heard the news report and said "oh dear".