What is the first major disaster you remember

[Shmoigel]

The first one I clearly remember was the King’s Cross fire in 87 and Lockerbie in 88

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Aberfan.

Coming out of my mother’s vagina

Probably the Cold War. Waking up and being shocked we hadn't all died yet is pretty harsh at primary school.

Aberfan.

The King's Cross fire too. I'm 43.

Me too. Probably because I was a similar age as the victims.

Brilliant

Gosh you must have been little then. I’m 47

The Challenger space shuttle

Storm of 87. And the Kings Cross fire. My Dad was in London that day. Also famine in Africa. AIDS.

Mountbattens boat being blown up. I’m 53

Lockerbie. But too young to understand (but do remember it. Or maybe the news reports years later?).

Dunblane. That still haunts me to be honest. I remember sobbing watching the news. I was 15.

John F. Kennedy's asassination.

I think probably the Bradford City football ground fire.

Heysel in 1985, I remember clearly the news reports. I was in Year 5.

Start of the Falklands war, I was 9 and had no idea where either Argentina or the Falkland islands were, and thought they were off the top of Scotland...

KX
(I’m 45)

I think it’s because my mum would mention it whenever we went down to London (quite a lot) and tell us we had to be very careful on escalators.

she is a big worrier.

The Andra Pradesh Cyclone. I was 5 and have family in India. Not close but I remember being worried as a child.

About six I guess? I feel like I saw it on Newsround. But we lived on the outskirts of London and used Kings Cross a lot, so it probably was more relevant for me (and my parents) than most.

The Herald of Free Enterprise sinking. It sank on a Friday evening so instead of watching my usual Saturday morning kids' programming I switched on to see news coverage of the ship lying on its side.

The tsunami in 2004 that hit Indonesia, etc. It was boxing day and I was on holiday. I'd have been 10. It just really sticks in my mind.

I don't remember 9/11 at all!

I do remember Diana dying, but that's not a disaster.

Hillsborough and Dunblane. I also vividly recall the reporting of the murder of James Bulger.

Diana, also tragedy more than a disaster but then first public mourning I had seen.

First disaster I can remember - 9/11. Probably not the first but that gulfed everything and I think probably overwrote a few.

I remember the 1987 hurricane really clearly even though I was only 5.
And then Hillsborough. I think the first big news story I remember clearly was Jamie Bulger.

The King dying back in 1952. I was 5 years old.