The Dúnadan has an
intriguing meme which he declared open to all comers... and I decided that I needed a little light entertainment, so I'd play!
It's a "what were you doing, and where" meme... I have taken the liberty of putting the events in chronological order, for the sake of "neatness" !
1. President Kennedy's Assassination - 22 November 1963Ummmm... I wasn't even thought of. My maternal grandmother was pretty upset by it: she liked Kennedy, despite him being American (she was German (Prussian, actually), but she hated the Russians far more than she hated Americans) and despite him declaring that he was a doughnut in Berlin...
2. England's World Cup Semi Final v Germany - 4 July 1990I was alive for this one. However, not being a footie fan, I have no idea where I was.
3. Margaret Thatcher's resignation - 22 November 1990I'm not entirely sure... I have a hazy recollection of hearing it at my mother's house (I'd visited overnight) and then discussing it at lunchtime in the staff canteen at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, having a coffee. It's a little hazy - I was running rats in mazes for hours on end, and that does things to your brain...
4. Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997I heard this on the radio (which I'd had on all night, as is my
usual custom) as I woke up. I remember switching on the TV because I was sure there was some sort of mistake, that I must have
imagined that it happened. And then, when I'd woken up properly, I rang to tell another friend, because we were going to go to the Science Museum later that day, and I thought the news might affect traffic around Buckingham Palace. The Science Museum trip was a bit of preparatory research before I started my teacher training the following week.
5. Attack on the twin towers - 11 September 2001My second school-related memory. I was in an after-school meeting, along with some other new staff in the school. Another teacher stuck his head in through the classroom door to tell us the news of the first plane crash. And then we heard about the second one...
6. The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy - 19 April 2005Heheheheheh... a really
great memory. I've blogged about it already
HERE, but I was in the Parish Hall, making a cup of tea, with a pile of marking set out on a table as I prepared to watch satellite TV coverage.

Ok, for no other reason than sheer curiosity, I'm going to tag
Karen, the
Caveman,
Adrienne,
Hilary and
Fr. Owl.