Where were you when...?

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Share with the rest of us where you were when you heard for the first time about the deaths of princess Diana, Jackson, the previous pope and the Twin Towers destruction. And as for me, I found out about those events in such a way:

1. Diana - From the news; I was watching TV and all of a sudden I heard: ”Princess Diana is dead. She has died in a car accident.”

2. Jackson - I woke up and turned the computer on, entering the net, like every day. MSN front page news run as follows: “Michael Jackson. He was singing and dancing before death.” But before WHOSE death, I thought, still hoping (well, being almost sure, some people seem to be like immortal, it’s hard to imagine they could ever die) he was doing it at the presence of another famous person who later died; I entered our most known portal, Onet and the news from there finally made me have no illusions about the singer’s wellbeing.

3. WTC - I had just come from school (I was angry as that morning I went to school two hours earlier than I should, having mistaken the hours) and started to watch “Tenderness and Lies” on TV (some silly Polish TV show, no idea after all those years, what it was about but certainly I am not missing anything important not remembering this, lol) and there was that black stripe with the information on WTC moving at the bottom of the screen so I quickly switched over to an information channel and that’s how I found out.

4. JPII - I was just writing in my diary in my room and when I turned the TV set on, on the screen I saw a card with the pope’s image and the dates of his birth and death.

I remember being in a 7th-grade math class when President Kennedy was shot, and I remember being on the road in a lumber-delivery truck when the Challenger exploded. I remember the things you have mentioned, but I do not recall where I was when I heard about them.

It was late at night in Australia when my son told me to watch CNN on cable tv about 9/11.
We stayed up all night.

As for the rest of them, who cares? I didn't give a hoot about them anyway, especially Michael Jackson.

Diana-- mum told me. When she did I didnt know who she was. XD

Jackson-- on the rare occastion that I had to be on the TV to help m younger sister find a show.

9/11 -- I remember my mom looking kinda sad and kinda mixed up. I knew something wasnt right and I asked her. She told me about the towers falling over. (i think i was 5 or 6 at the time) I remmeber seeing footage and thinking it was terrible, but at the time I thought it was an accident. turns out the conflicting emotions were that on that day she found out she was pregnant with my sister.

JPII-- he died? i dont recall that one.

1) I can't remember how I found out or where I was. I did grieve for her.

2) Don't care.

3) In bed sleeping. We are 3 hours behind NYC so it was about 11 AM in NY when the alarm clock woke me up. I keep it on a local news station so that's how I found out. Everything has already happened.

4) REALLY don't fricken care.

1.} Princess Diana: Watching TV. Don't remember much except when "Breaking News" popped up

2.} Michael Jackson: Coming home from a trip to the grocery store.
My sister told me in a sarcastic fashion. At first, I thought it was a joke,
but later thought otherwise with assistance from the news.

3.} 9/11: Eating breakfast and getting ready for school.
Watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center on TV.

4.} Pope John Paul II: Don't remember much except when
Pope Benedict XVI was elected.

Where were you when..

1.} ...the assassination attempt on President Reagan happened?

2.} President Clinton admitted to the world he had a extramartial relationship?

3.} Operation Desert Storm began?

4.} BUSH I infamously said, "Read my lips...no new taxes!"

Princess Diana: No idea. I guess people were talking about it at school.

9/11: In my PC repair class in high school. Some guy came in and told us to turn on the TV. We spent the rest of the day and a good portion of the next day watching TV and doing no work at all.

Pope: I was at my grandma's house, I think...or maybe he was still on his death bed, I can't remember. Anyway, I was grieving over Mitch Hedberg =/

Michael Jackson: On my computer...I opened up MSN for whatever reason (can't even remember now) and they had this really rough draft headline that only said "Michael Jackson is Dead". I had to stop and think for a minute if it was April Fools day or not. I was the first person in the chat room to notice.



Owen Hart: I was watching the PPV, though I didn't pay for it, so it was all scrambled. Still, I was pretty shook up about it, and kids were making jokes about it the next day at school. That just pissed me off.

Dimebag: I was in the hospital. My brother called and said my uncle said that Dime and Vinnie had been shot and killed, and I didn't believe him at all. Of course, he ended up being half correct =/

On a seperate note, I vaguely remember watching something about OJ's trial on TV in elementary school...which doesn't make sense, I don't remember us having cable TV at that point...

Princess Di- probably at breakfast, when I picked up the paper.

Micahel Jackson - ironically, I found that out by coming here...

WTC - I was at work. They let us out half a day early.

JP II - the paper again.

I remember finding about Kennedy by noticing I couldn't find cartoons on any (all 3) channel

Kurt Cobain - I remember finding out when our band was in rehearsal...

Diana died on the same day as my hamster, so I didn't care at all. The death of my little fluffy one meant much more to me.

I was in my 10th grade algebra 2 class during the WTC attacks. It was really panicky because I'm from Northern Virginia and many students had parents working in the government, many diplomats, and many who worked at the Pentagon. And then the CIA which was literally down the street was evacuated, and my school wasn't.... oi. My dad used to work at the Pentagon and his old office was in the section of the building that got hit, scary!

I don't know where I was for the others.

Diana: Didn't hear about it until now (I don't know who she is).

MJ: Right here on Wrong Planet.

9/11: I woke up that morning and saw my mother crying while watching it on T.V.

Pope: Again, didn't hear it until now.

Bump!

And as for those who are my compatriots - where were you having heard about Smoleńsk for the first time? In my case it looked like that my cousin phoned my mother and told her that something wrong happened to the president but my mom didn't tell me what exactly; she just told me he had a plane accident. So I entered the net and on the MSN front page there was this information on his death. It was maybe about 11.50 AM. I wish I found this out without my cousin's prior notice because then it would be much more unexpected for me and I like unexpected things.