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Digital Northern IrelandWhen 'your ma' was your age

Some of the important events and people from when 'your ma' was your age.

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Bob Geldof raised to fame as the lead singer of The Boomtown Rats

'Rat Trap' was their first hit in 1978 followed by 'I Don’t Like Mondays' in 1979.

  • Concorde, the British-French turbo-jet passenger airliner took to the skies on 2nd March 1969
  • Dana won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song 'All Kinds of Everything'
  • Mary Peters won an Olympic gold medal in 1972 for the pentathlon
  • The World’s first teletext information service started by the BBC in 1974
  • Fergal Sharkey was the lead vocalist of the Northern Irish pop-punk band The Undertones.
  • Bob Geldof raised to fame as the lead singer of The Boomtown Rats
  • Margaret Thatcher became United Kingdom’s first female Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990
  • Diana Spencer became the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales on 28th July 1981
  • Ian Paisley holds an Ulster Says No rally in November 1985
  • Brian Keenan was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad in April 1986
  • Eddie the Eagle was first British skier to compete in the Winter Olympics for Great Britain in 1988
  • The Berlin wall was brought down in November 1989

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