What is the biggest media event you can remember from your childhood??

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Mine is the death of the Princess of Wales. I was 12 at the time- Mum came and woke me and my sister up (much to her annoyance as she had been on a night out the night before) and told us it was important we watched as it was a huge deal. I can still remember sitting there that morning watching the news coverage. The next day mum took us to London for the day and we went to put flowers outside Kensington palace.

I didn't get it at the time but I was the same age as harry and honestly can't imagine having to live through my teens, getting married and having DD without my mum by my side never mind dealing with the pressure of royal life..

I'm old cos I remember their wedding. It was HUGE and we watched it on TV and everyone in school was endlessly banging on about Lady Di and I was given a Ladybird book about her which I still have! (It's very twee)

Charles and Di wedding

Good question. I don't remember too many as a youngster but the IRA bombing of Thatcher and her cabinet at the hotel was one. I also remember feeling nervous when the US jets attacked Libya and when Russia shot down a passenger plane for veering off course at the height of the cold war.

Dunblane, Death of Diana and slightly older 9/11 are the 3 that really stand out

Probably the Gulf war. I was 11 at the time.

The Aberfan disaster I was about 10 and it upset me terribly.

Silver Jubilee. I've still got the mug.

Probably the OJ Simpson trial. I was only 12 and didn't really know much about the case but I remember thinking that the police were definitely racist and had framed him. Definitely don't think that now!

I also remember about princess Diana's death. I think I went up and woke my mam when I saw it and she basically sat in front of the tv all day watching ti coverage.

Well, plenty of people do, K1

I'm sympathetic to the Princes but it's not so unique as all that.

The first big news events I can remember clearly was the Challenger shuttle disaster and Andrew and Fergie getting married.
Less clearly, the 80's teacher strikes.

Man walking on the moon - (I was in infants school but I do remember us all crowding round the TV at home - AND my Dad had just bought our first colour TV especially for it!)

Warrington bombing by the IRA. I was almost 10, and growing up not too far away. We were all terrified that Liverpool would be next. I also remember the Berlin Wall coming down, watching on TV.

The Zeebrugge ferry disaster 1987

I would have been 6, I remember watching the news with the ferry on its side, we had the tv on more than normal at that time as I was off school ill with chicken pox and mum had moved me and her into the dining room to try and stop my sister catching it.

I'm old cos I remember their wedding

Me too. That's probably my first big media memory.

Possibly all the strikes in the 70's. The footage of all the rubbish piling up in the streets is still vivid.

Lockerbie bombing. I think I was 6

TV footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall is stuck in my memory. Also the death of Mother Theresa. Lifting of aparthied in South Africa. 9/11.

Lockerbie was big

The Queen's Silver Jubilee and the street parties and getting a souvenir mug from school (which I still have) I was 10 years old

Aberfan and the moon landing.

My first genuine memory of anything happening in the world was Roald Dahl dying in 1990. I was 6 or 7 and very upset. After that it was the Gulf War, famine in Ethiopia and various IRA incidents. Oh and Italia '90!

James Bulger being murdered. I was the same age as the 2 boys who killed him.

Ethiopian famine probably.
Teen years probably the first Gulf war as we had people in our form whose parents were out there, so it was quite a big topic of conversation

Freddie Mercury dying.

The first one I really properly remember was the Berlin Wall coming down when I was about 14. I don't know if you'd count Live Aid, but I remember that, and have vague memories of Charles and Diana's wedding. Nelson Mandela coming out of prison was a huge media event as well.