Have you ever slept right through a huge historical or life-changing event, at the time not knowing it was happening?

Huge historical.

I went to a lecture on a cruise ship in the middle of the Baltic Sea on 11 Sep 2001. I sat next to a man from the UK. He asked if I had heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Center in New York. I had not. I remembered that a B-25 had hit the Empire State Building near the end of WWII, so I assumed that it was an accident. When the lecture was concluded, I returned to my cabin and turned on the BBC News. It was then that the video of the second plane hitting the remaining tower was shown and I knew it was no accident.

Could have been life changing.

On 26 Sep 1980 my wife and I were at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. We left the park about 10 P.M., and learned the following day that a bomb had been set off at the park entrance about 20 to 30 minutes after we had gone through that same entrance. Sometime later, we learned that 13 people had been killed and 213 injured.

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