What was the first major news story you remember as a kid?

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Mine was the disappearance of Madeline Mccann in 2007 - I was 10

Tricky one to answer this, as it's a news event but an expected one.

Halley's comet, 1987. It's the first major news story I vividly remember aged 7. Went to the planetarium and saw it. May live to see it again when it comes back.

The challenger space shuttle disaster happened around that same period (within weeks), but my memory of that is vague. The first non expected news event that I can really recall is the nutcase Michael Stone throwing grenades at people in a Belfast cemetery during an IRA funeral in 1988.

Showing my age ,but I remember the moon landing.

Wow that makes me feel old! I think mine is the Berlin Wall coming down

Michael Jackson passing away. I was in year 5 or 6

JFK's assassination in 1963. I remember a John Wayne film being stopped for the announcement. I was 9.

Aberfan in 66.

I think it was news coverage of AIDS which scared me a lot.

The Challenger

President Kennedy’s assassination- I think I was 6

Margaret Thatcher becoming first female PM

Iranian embassy seige.

Probably Aberfan, or the moon landings. I'm not sure which came first.

I have vague memories of Live Aid, aged 4.

*1986 for Halley's comet (no idea why I thought 1987).

Sorry but you're the same age as me. I had no idea who princess Diana was at 5 years old. 🤷‍♀️ How could you be heartbroken?

Don't remember Live Aid, but I do remember its follow up Sport Aid a year later. I ran 2 miles (brothers ran the 4 and the 6 mile).

Wow. You're a baby!

I was 17 when michael Jackson passed away in my first year of college.

Vaguely remember Elvis dying

Strikes in the 70s but mainly due to the power cuts.

Iranian embassy siege is the first thing I remember well and John Lennon being shot

Chernobyl. I think I was about 6 at the time it happened but read about it a year or so later.

I remember watching the Berlin wall being knocked through but not knowing much about it.

John Lennon's death and then The Falklands War

Natasha Kampush?

Aberfan disaster 1966, followed by the Torrey Canyon oil spill in 1967.

Hillsborough, I was 7 years old when it happened, awful, those poor people

Princess Diana Dying

I thought Mrs Thatcher was the Queen, as she was on TV so much.

The news stories I first remember were Thatcher resigning (by then I knew she wasn't the Queen), and my parents' excitement about this. They were similarly excited by the fall of the Berlin Wall. Also, the Gulf War. At school, they sat us down and explained it wasn't as bad as WW2 which we had recently learned about. I didn't like news - when asked in a secondary school interview what I watched on television, I quipped that I was forced to watch the news because of the interview. Now that I have read articles about "why news is bad for you", I feel vindicated.

Not really news, but I remember on "Newsround" an item about how dangerous kitchens are for children, which showed the presenter in an oversized kitchen, with the cooker towering above him, and he was reaching up and grabbing saucepan handles and so on. "This looks exciting, but if I pull it, look what follows."

Aberfan