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reecejackox
20-06-2023, 11:41 PM
the queens mother passing
Niamh.
20-06-2023, 11:50 PM
River Phoenix dying maybe?
bots
21-06-2023, 12:01 AM
winston churchill dying

3 day working week
Alf
21-06-2023, 12:32 AM
The challenger space shuttle disaster.


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Alf
21-06-2023, 12:39 AM
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Alf
21-06-2023, 12:42 AM
Live Aid


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UserSince2005
21-06-2023, 12:55 AM
All the hostage crisis in Russia.
When the theatre was taken hostage in moscow
And the school hostage crisis. Maybe it was called beslam
Mystic Mock
21-06-2023, 02:13 AM
Stephen Gately dying.
user104658
21-06-2023, 03:53 PM
Here's one that I find mad: To kids my daughter's age, 9/11 and the start of the "War On Terror" etc. is ancient history. Stuff that happened nearly a decade before they were born... barely more relevant to them than the end of the Vietnam war was to me as a teenager.
Crimson Dynamo
21-06-2023, 05:07 PM
*know

France 1977


The last execution by guillotine

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