(08 Nov 2014, 9:13 am)Andreos1 wrote It was quite a year 1989.
Mandela was released, Hillsborough, first stage of anti- poll tax Campaigns, Berlin Wall (and Hassellhoff singing live from the scene), Tiananmen Square and essentially the end of the USSR.
Closer to home, Newcastle got relegated.
Quite a significant year in many ways and it changed the world for ever.
Close...11 February 1990...I was just reading about Madiba recently, after watching The Long Walk To Freedom
1989 was a momentous year though as you rightly point out the big events, the big ones for me was Hillsborough and the Berlin Wall, Hillsborough traumatized me and I did not really understand the significance of a big fuck off wall and change to the global political landscape...
1989 was a personal momentous year for me, my mam married my dad(well, stepdad) and I had my first run in with the police...On the wedding day, I made a hoax call reporting a murder...did not go down too well, both the police and my family failed to see the funny side and I thought I was heading straight to Durham for a stretch inside...I was only 7 years old and got my arse brayed for that...Never learnt my lesson, the amount of times I have been in trouble since
