In My Life

The following are a list of key dates and events that will stand out in my memory for a very long time.

15 October 1980
The day of my birth.
12 April 1981
Inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia.
31 October 1982
The Thames Barrier was raised for the first time.
21 April 1983
The £1 coin is introduced to British currency.
21 October 1984
Niki Lauda becomes the World Motor Racing Champion for the third time.
19 December 1984
Britain signed an agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.
13 July 1985
Live Aid the largest live concerts in UK and US.
01 September 1985
The wreck of RMS Titanic is discovered off Newfoundland.
28 January 1986
Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into launch.
26 April 1986
Number 4 reactor overheats at Chernobyl and explodes causing the World's worst nuclear accident.
20 January 1987
Terry Waite is taken hostage in Beirut.
11 October 1987
A huge SONAR search for the Loch Ness monster fails
06 July 1988
An explosion and resulting fire destroy the Piper Alpha oil platform.
06 November 1988
US Defense Department computers are crippled by a virus.
21 December 1988
Pan Am flight 103 crashed on Lockerbie following a fatal explosion.
15 April 1989
96 people are crushed and killed in the Hillsborough football distaster.
04 June 1989
PRC Government crushed student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
12 November 1989
The Berlin Wall fell unifying the city split for over 30 years.
20 May 1990
The Hubble space telescope sends back the first photos from space.
28 November 1990
Margaret Thatcher formally tenders resignation and leaves Downing Street.
16 January 1991
The Gulf War begins.
28 February 1991
Operation Desert Storm ends with the liberation of Kuwait.
09 December 1993
US astronauts repair the Hubble telescope in space.
05 April 1994
Rock Icon Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
19 November 1994
The first draw is made in the British National Lottery.
20 March 1995
A nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway leaves 12 dead and 5,000 injured.
22 February 1997
Scientists successfully clone 'Dolly' the sheep.
31 August 1997
Diana the Princess of Wales is killed in a car crash in Paris.
11 September 2001
Two planes are flown into the WTC towers, both towers collapse.
01 January 2002
The Euro Currency was officially introduced to the 12 member states of the European Monetary Union
01 February 2003
Shuttle Columbia breaks up on re-entry.
04 February 2003
Snowball riots in Salford.
19 March 2003
American and Coalition forces invade Iraq live on TV.
15 July 2003
I Receive a BSc (Hons) from Salford University.
24 October 2003
Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
11 March 2004
200 people are murdered in Madrid train bombings.
18 July 2004
The largest fragment (G) of Shoemaker-Levy 9 strikes Jupiter causing a 12,000km scar.
01 September 2004
Over 300 children and their parents are killed during a siege in Beslan.
26 December 2004
200,000 people are killed after a tsunami off Indonesia.
02 July 2005
RAF Waddington's annual air show.
07 July 2005
London tube and buses are bombed.
28 July 2005
IRA renounce violence and down their arms.
03 June 2006
Building the Imperial Star Destroyer. The most fun I've had with clothes on.