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reecejackox
20-06-2023, 10:41 PM
the queens mother passing
Niamh.
20-06-2023, 10:50 PM
River Phoenix dying maybe?
bots
20-06-2023, 11:01 PM
winston churchill dying

3 day working week
Alf
20-06-2023, 11:32 PM
The challenger space shuttle disaster.


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Alf
20-06-2023, 11:39 PM
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Alf
20-06-2023, 11:42 PM
Live Aid


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UserSince2005
20-06-2023, 11:55 PM
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, 01:13 AM
Stephen Gately dying.
user104658
21-06-2023, 02:53 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, 04:07 PM
*know

France 1977


The last execution by guillotine

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