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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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Eddie the Eagle was first British skier to compete in the Winter Olympics for Great Britain in 1988

Placed last in his events he represented the true Olympic spirit as an amateur athlete.

  • 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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