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?

Remember lots of above and also Louise Brown (first IVF birth). I was only around 10 at the time and it was all very confusing as I didnt even know how babies were made normally!

The blurry CCTV pictures of little Jamie Bulger holding the hand of his abductor walking through the shopping center is a much later one, but one I'll never forget.

I was born in 1954, my clearest earliest memory is of a Soviet Sputnik which returned to Earth with live animals in 1960. My older brother was really into space exploration, and used to talk about it a lot, and although we had no pets other than a budgie, I was animal daft.
The following year, Yuri Gagarin was the first human to make a successful space flight, and this was talked about not only at home but at school.
Slightly later memories include the Aberfan disaster, the assassination of JFK, Churchill’s funeral.

Biggest was 9/11. I remember it very clearly, including that it was the first time I ever heard someone swear on radio 4 - and perhaps even more significantly, my very straight-laced parents didn't turn the radio off after there'd been swearing!

The first news event I remember clearly was the 1997 election, though I've got vague memories of mum listening to the radio during the first Iraq war (I'd have been very young at the time).

Oddly enough I've got no memory of Diana's death, it clearly didn't make much impact on me for whatever reason.

Lockerbie really sticks in my memory, I can remember seeing the images of the plane on the little portable TV in the kitchen.

Also the Iraq war, it was my birthday and it felt very significant in a negative way. Scary, my friend and neighbour's father was still in the reserves (he fought in the Falklands) and was preparing to be recalled.

Freddie Mercury's death, I remember talking to my Mum about Aids when it was announced that he was HIV+ and then less than a day later he was dead.

Oh and Nelson Mandela, it was near Easter, we were talking about the Easter Story at school and the teacher asked one of the boys a question, he wasn't paying attention and guessed what he had been asked.

He answered Nelson Mandela, the teacher was looking for the answer Jesus but he kind of wasn't wrong and she couldn't quite decide whether to laugh or be cross.

Princess Diana

9/11 I remember walking on the ward thinking my patients were watching a film until I realised it was the actual news 😢

Hillsborough (I was 7) was probably the first (my best friend's brother was there but was ok). I was older but others I remember exactly when I found out were Dunblane, Princess Diana, 9/11, 7/7, Brexit and Trump. Both my children were at different clubs when they found out. I think covid and this will be their earliest news memories.

Alongside many of the other things mentioned - The Great Storm in 1987.
I’d just started uni (in the Halls of Residence).

Norwegian island shooting, not sure why this one sticks with me in particular
Kate and Wills wedding
Jess and Holly
Madeleine McCann (am a similar age) - remember keeping her in our prayers at my Catholic primary school
2011 London riots
Death of George Floyd and subsequent BLM protests
Capitol insurrection - was watching from bed with boyfriend at the time

It happened before I was born, but I distinctly remember learning about Stephen Lawrence and it affected me greatly. RIP.

The King's Cross fire.
The Zeebrugge ferry disaster.
John Lennon being murdered.
Bob Marley dying.
The Twin Towers 9/11 disaster.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana's wedding.
The first moon landing.
The death of Elvis Presley.
The Queen's Silver Jubilee.

I was just a tot but I remember Elvis dying but it's very fuzzy. I know that I knew about it. My mum loved Elvis so I guess I have a memory from her reaction.

I can remember things from being in a pram before I was two.

Ceaușescu executions on Christmas Day.
Tiananmen Square
Miners Strike

I wonder if my children will have similar memories. We don't watch "the news" or much TV. I mainly read for news.

Sometimes I have to remember to make them aware of big stories that might be talked about at school (like today) that could easily pass them by.

I guess they will recall Trump, Boris and George Floyd because we talked about those. And of course COVID and Brexit.

Maggie standing down
the cold war
end of the USSR
Berlin Wall falling
The end of apartheid- does anyone remember seeing Diane Louise Jordan and John Leslie walking together in S Africa?

Lockerbie bombing
Challenger explosion
Royal wedding of Sarah and Andrew
Zebrugge
Jill Dandos death
Princess Diana dying
9/11
7/7
boxing day tsunami
Death of Michael Jackson
Nelson Mandela being released
Hillsborough

Basically everything significant that has happened in the last 38 years.

Everything in the 80s I was young but aware of it happening. I was 17 when Diana died and on my way back from a club night at the hammersmith
Apollo - was walking with my boyfriend back to his house in Fulham around 3-4am and as we were walking past a newsagent taking delivery of his papers, we heard them discussing a serious accident involving the Princess. We stopped to chat with them but there wasn't much information other than she was in a serious accident.

When we woke a few hours later, she was pronounced dead. All other significant events after that are burned into memory as an adult.

I'm older than most of ye. My first news event I can remember watching on TV was when Elvis died. I was in a friend's house and she had two older sisters who were in tears. Sadly her two sisters are both dead now as they died of cancer in their early 30s. The deaths of the hunger strikers in Northern Ireland. Charles and Diana's wedding. Live Aid especially Ultravox (Vienna), U2 and Queen. Sally Ride the first American woman in Space and Challenger exploding. The Tsunami. Princess Dianas death. 9/11.

Chernobyl
Diana and Charles wedding
Diana's death
9/11
Elvis' death
Zeebrugge disaster
Berlin Wall
Vietnam war

Elvis's death
The Iran hostage crisis
The Challenger disaster

I remember the Berlin Wall coming down on Newsround. I was about seven and had never heard of it before. It was only years later I realised what a big deal it was.

Hillsborough
Falklands War
Thatcher resigning
9/11
Diana
Harrods bombing
Lockerbie

Probably the most significant.

Oh yes Berlin Wall - I was glued to the news.

9/11
Holly and Jessica
Michael Jackson dying

The death of Diana . I was with my bf and he laughed when I started to cry.
9/11 I was watching itv when it came on suddenly and I saw the second plane hit live.
Mj dying, I was at Glastonbury and everyone was talking about it.
Manchester arena bombing, it came up on my phone during the night.!

Death of Elvis
Yorkshire Ripper being caught
Charles and Diana wedding
Dunblane
Diana's death
9/11
Sarah Payne
Holly and Jessica
Shannon Matthews being found

And as an Aberdonian, Piper Alpha.

I remember the absolute devastation in the city, and though I didn't personally know any of the 167 men who died I know people who did.