- OJ trial verdict - Can't remember
- Princess Diana death - Bed
- 9/11 - Supermarket in Genoa buying cheap booze ahead of a flight to London later that day. My brother phoned me just as I was about to reach the front of the checkout.
- Canada hockey gold in Vancouver - In my livingroom watching on Eurosport
- Gretzky trade - Ireland - didn't find out abot it til two days later.
- Flames eliminating the Canucks in OT, game 7, 2004
- Watching on TV before heading off to work for the day. When the series started, I was staying at the Rimrock, when it ended, I was at home in London. Was in Barcelona when we knocked out the Wings.
- Challenger explosion - In Ireland, and had just got home from school and was watching the launch live.
- 1st Iraq Gulf war - Drunk and half asleep on my livingroom floor while trying to play Monopoly