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Re: When I was 12
wintermute, on host 65.189.42.201
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, at 19:13:48
When I was 12 posted by Howard on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at 20:55:10:
On my 12th birthday, Michael Ryan killed 16 in Hungerford, Berkshire with an assault rifle and then committed suicide.
Also on my 12th birthday, the Order of the Garter was opened up to women, after 639 years of only being available to men.
When I was 12, 31 people died in a fire at Kings Cross underground station in London.
When I was 12, Larry Wall invented Perl.
When I was 12, the Soviet Union began the economic restructuring known as perestroika.
When I was 12, an IRA bomb in Eniskillen, County Fermanagh killed eleven people at a remembrance day ceremony.
When I was 12, Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to 18 months in jail for revealing Israel's nuclear weapons programme.
When I was 12, the North Sea drilling platform "Piper Alpha" exploded, killing 170 people.
When I was 12, Richard Feynman and Robert Heinlein died.
When I was 12, NASA launched the last of America's deep-space probes, the Space Shuttle "Ranger 3", which is piloted by Captain William "Buck" Rogers.
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