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?

Moon landings.
Decimalisation of money

Got I write a load of bullshit! I was definitely an adult!!

Devestating, can't even imagine!

Diana dying (I was in a Greek supermarket with my dad)

9/11 (I was off school because I'd been at the orthodontist)

The Soham murders (my parents were in tears when it came on the news and my dad then dropped the shepherd's pie as he took it out the oven)

The 7/7 bombings. I was in the sixth form common room and I remember being really scared about everyone I knew who worked in London.

Will and Kate's wedding. We got a day off work and me and my bestie got really dressed up in the middle of the day and got absolutely sloshed.

Harry and Meghan's wedding. I know it wasn't that long ago but it was the day the man I ended up marrying moved all his massive furniture into my tiny house while I watched it on the TV.

RIP Queenie. I feel like a bit of a grief thief because I've never met her so the sadness doesn't belong to me, but I feel sad none the less.

Aberfan
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady

Sorry I missed the childhood bit. To clarify, I was an adult when both royal weddings took place. No underage drinking and I definitely wasn't a child bride!

9/11 - I was about 9, came home from school and my mum had the news on the telly in the kitchen. That one was seriously shocking.
Princess Diana's funeral - I vaguely remember seeing on the telly all the flowers in front of Buckingham Palace
The Queen mother dying - I was being driven home from a play date by my friends dad who i didn't know well at all. He had the radio on in the car and it was just me and him. He kept sniffing and I was trying to work out if he was crying because she had died or if he was just sniffing with a cold. I remember feeling very awkward.

Mine are:
Dunblane
Princess Diana's death
Berlin Wall coming down
9/11 I was 16 at the time so not sure if this really counts as a child.

Diana dying
911

and now this will be I’m sure and for my dc too

I remember a few things already mentioned. Mainly because of the associated memories though.

Diana - great grandmother loved her.
9/11 - year 7, they brought Tvs to our rooms to keep us updated.
7/7 - sitting with best friend waiting to hear from her dad who worked round the corner from the bus.
Boxing day tsunami - on holiday in canaries.
Holly and Jessica - a grandparent lived in our town so posters were everywhere.
The guy who went around Cumbria shooting people randomly - a friend of a friend I knew relatively well was one of the victims.

Here Goes
I am 57 though

Landing on the Moon
Tutakamen Exhibition at The British Museum
The awful IRA Attacks especially the one at Hyde Park
The Mass Suicide at Jonestown, Guyana
The attempted Kidnap of Princess Anne
The election of Thatcher and all that followed
The departure of Thatcher
Various Prime Ministers
The Marriage of Charles and Diana (and the Divorce)
The Marchioness Disaster on the Thames
Herald of Free Enterprise Ferry Disaster

There are more but these are the main stand outs .

And of course, and how could I have forgotten, Live Aid

The assassination of JFK, the announcement of which was followed by the first ever episode of Doctor Who, and I remember them both.

The disappearance of Caroline Hogg
Lockerbie bombing
Berlin wall falling
Dunblane massacre

Roughly aged 6 or 7 to 17

Kings Cross Fire
Bradford fire
Hillsborough
The Marchioness disaster
Zeebrugge
World Cup 1990 - Gazza crying & missed penalty
Berlin Wall falling
Barcelona Olympics- Freddie Mercury song forever
Hungerford
Lockerbie
Kurt Cobain dying
John Smith dying
England losing to NZ in Rugby World Cup & Debbie from Eastenders getting run over on the same day (there was a 3rd thing but old age...)
Euro 96
Tony Blair getting elected

Probably loads more but these are the ones I can remember

My first ‘news’ memory was Lady Di’s passing
Then 9/11
Then the 2004 tsunami
Tube bombings (2005?)
People queueing at the banks to take their money out before the crash in 2007
Brexit
Covid
And now the Queen ❤️

Sarah Payne
Dunblane
Twin Towers
Lockerbie
London bus bombings
Diana
Ricky Nieve
Madeleine McCann
James Bulger
Boxing Day Tsunami

I could go on but it is too horrible ..

My earliest memories of news stories are the Stardust Fire in Dublin and the hunger strikes in NI.

Diana.
Michael Jackson .
9/11

Silver Jubilee street party
Elvis dying
Charles marrying Diana
Berlin Wall coming down
Zeebrugge ferry
Lockerbie
Diana’s death
9/11
7/7
David Bowie dying
Brexit

More jolly Mark Spitz at the Olympics 1972 when I was 4.

But the Iranian Embassy siege really shocked me at age 12 but I have memories of my parents coming from London nights out and coming home saying a bomb had gone off but idk when.

Princess Diana's death. I think I was 6 and it came up on the bottom of my kids programme. My mum turned the news on and I remember her crying.

9/11 was about 10. I remember coming home from school and seeing it on the news and crying.

My mum just told me she remembers being when the queen's dad died 70 years ago ! She was in the school playground when it was announced.

Earliest I can remember is the Birmingham Pub bombings. I am from Birmingham and can remember relatives talking about it. I would have been 5. Other early ones are the death of Elvis and the silver jubilee.

Earliest memory was the King's funeral.

The coronation.

Suez crisis.