What news event do you remember...

[imnotthatkindofmum]

Just been talking to my teens about the queen passing. I commented that they will remember this day for the rest of their lives and they asked me what events I remember.

Mine are
Margaret Thatcher resigning! (Teachers we're celebrating)
The Berlin Wall coming down
Chernobyl
Kurt Cobain dying (prob not significant to everyone but was to me!)

What significant news events from your childhood will you never forget?

9/11
Storming of the Iranian embassy by the SAS is probably the first big event I remember watching
Lockerbie

I will always remember hearing about
Princess Diana
9/11
7/7
The Brexit announcement
Hearing Donald Trump had become president
Hearing that schools were closing and exams were cancelled 2020

Zebrugge ferry disaster.
Various IRA attacks.
Nail bomb attacks in London 1999.
Dunblane.
Diana dying
9/11
Boxing Day tsunami

9/11
Death of: Princess Diana, Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse
Kate and William wedding
Meghan and Harry wedding
Loads more, can't remember right now.

The Berlin Wall coming down I was babysitting and sat on the sofa watching the footage.

Princess Diana dying, heard about it because they were praying for her in church.

John Lennon getting shot very vaguely but I remember top of the pops playing his songs.

Dunblane watched it unfolding in horror as a young trainee teacher.

Hillsborough I was having a sleepover with my friends and my mum interrupted to tell us (she was crying which is unusual)

9/11 I was at school and the head came round the classes to tell us.

How long was your childhood?

There was life before 9/11 and life after.

It's had a much bigger impact on my life and most people's than what monarch is on the throne.

9/11 sticks out for me as it was my 16th birthday!

@Headabovetheparakeet yeah I think some people missed the childhood part! I'll ever forget 9/11 but I was definitely a child.

Quite a few. 9/11 & Diana the most, but also Zeebrugge, Miners' Strike, Berlin Wall, Chernobyl, Hillsborough, Dunblane, Hungerford, Tianenmen Square, Thatcher resignation. I think I watch too much news, when you list it there isn't much joy there.

Aberfan. I have a memory of seeing rows of coffins on the black and white TV and my mum crying.
I was 6

Assassination of JFK,was a Friday evening,I was 9
Aberfan
Zeebrugge ferry disaster
9/11 was in M&S Solihull
Lockerbie was at a works Christmas do
Princess Diana

Poll tax riots, moon landing, assassination of president Kennedy, 911, Princess Diana wedding and death, Shipman, Yorkshire ripper, 7/7.

Diana,
Hillsborough
Bradford Football Disaster
Grenfell
Manchester Arena Bombing
Manchester Arndale Bombing
Lord Mountbatten Murder
Yorkshire Ripper Arrest
7/7 Bombing
Manchester Air disaster
Queen Mother dying

911
The Berlin Wall
Zeebrugge
Princess Diana
7/7
Challenger space shuttle
Hillsborough
Boxing day tsunami
Lockerbie
Dunblane
Hungerford
Columbine

Diana
Dunblane
9/11
zeebruger
7/7
Charles and Diana’s wedding
scott and Charlene’s wedding
the miners strike
Bandaid
the falklands
the gulf war.

Lord Mountbatten's murder.
Shooting of John Lennon.
Margaret Thatcher becoming PM.

Charles and Diana's wedding

William and Harry being born

Zeebrugge disaster (I seem to remember watching Dynasty when I heard!)

Hillsborough - saw it unfold on tv

Berlin Wall

The challenger disaster - watched it on tv and it was surreal when it exploded

I seem to remember the sad murder of two girls, might have been the Babes in the wood murders?

The murder of Mark tildesley - I lived close by and was the same age and a boy in my class acted him in the official reconstruction

First was the ferry disaster- zeebrugge, Berlin Wall then bishops gate. Then dunblane - probably the first event were I fully understood as I was now much older. The change to Labour and tony Blair felt significant. Obviously 9/11 and 7/7.

Strangely hillsborough and nelson Mandela are not strongly in my memory although I vaguely remember a newsround report for the latter.

Im afraid I did not understand the national hysteria over Diana.

9/11 is the one that sticks in my mind. I just remember my dad running out of the house as we pulled up and asked my mum if she'd seen the news at work - his face and body was nothing like I'd seen before. We had family working nearby. I can picture looking at the 90s TV and seeing the people throw themselves to the ground, my mum made this awful, awful wail and crumpled beside me. I was 10 at the time.

Death of Elvis
Assassination of John Lennon
Chernobyl
Berlin wall coming down
Zeebruger
Death of Diana
9/11
7/7
Death of George Michael

The first one I remember was Piper Alpha, I remember singing "For those in peril on the sea" in school assembly for the rig workers. I was in high school for Dunblane, I remember one of the teachers telling us about it just after lunch. I was in my late teens when 9/11 happened, just about to go back to university and watched the whole thing unfold live on breaking news on the TV.

As a child I remember, in vague order:

Mrs Thatcher being elected PM (mum was a huge fan)
Charles and Diana's wedding (again, mum was a fan- we all dressed up and the house was decorated)
Miners' strike (somewhere in the early 80s mum completely changed her political views so she was involved in fundraising for them- I remember lots of badges)
Zebrugge disaster
Hilsborough disaster

You must be the same age as me!

The opening of the channel tunnel!
Take That splitting up - I was in year 7 at an all girls school and there were girls in tears everywhere
Diana
9/11