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  Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

  When I was at first school, our class topic in early 1986 had been to study space travel and we spent a lot of time discussing how the Space Shuttle worked. We even went so far as creating a model ...

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  Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding

  Most people get married at the weekend so they can ensure that all their friends and relatives will be able to attend. If they choose a weekday to pledge their respective troths it’s usually for reasons of money, as venues ...

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  Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

  On Saturday, 26th April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant in Ukraine began a systems test on reactor number four which recorded a sudden power output surge. An emergency shutdown was attempted but this was followed by an even larger ...

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  Christmas

  Christmas was great in the 80s. You'd leap out of your bed first thing in the morning dressed in your He-Man print pyjamas and run to the Christmas tree where the presents awaited. You might be hoping to get an Evel ...