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..

Maybe not much known in uk but the disappearance of Philip Cairns the young Dublin school boy, it's still spoken about back home from time to time

9/11 i was 8 and its the first big event i remrlember too

Probably 9/11 but closely followed by the murder of Sarah Payne

The first one I remember was the death of Queen Mary, then the Coronation, Suez, the Profumo affair.
By far the most shocking was the death of Kennedy.

The IRA bombing of Deal Barracks - because i heard the explosion. It was my home town. Watched the bandsmen march through the town a week later. People forget so easily it seems.

Landing on the moon (yes, I am ancient). I was at primary school & we all piled into the hall with a black& white telly. At the time I wondered what all the fuss was about, but now, looking back I appreciate the importance of the event.

Gosh yes forgot about the Fred and Rose West murders.

My mums friends use to walk past the house twice a day to and from work right up until they were discovered.

I suppose the Queens silver jubilee would be my first real recollection of a media event . I was 6 at the time . I do vividly remember the summer before being endlessly hot , but then I am sure all summers were back in the day , except when we made the mistake of leaving the cul-de-sac to holiday anywhere else , then it would rain for the entire week !

The Silver Jubilee and the Royal Wedding.

Anything to do with Torvill and Dean.

The blue peter garden being vandalised.

We didn't have tv until I was 9, remember a man called Arthur Scargill being on the radio a lot but I didn't really absorb news at that point - it was something dull my parents were interested in.

First media events that I actually remember making me stop and think were fall of the Berlin Wall and also Tiannamen Square. Would have been 10 or 11

I also remember playing out prior to the election in 1979 and hearing the loudspeakers urging people to vote for Margaret Thatcher , do they still do that , drive round neighbourhoods with loudspeakers campaigning ?

Elvis dying. John Lennon dying a couple of years later. Charles & Di's wedding although I was at a badly timed girl guide camp at the time.

Oh and the Yorkshire ripper murders.

Silver jubilee - we had a street party.
Disclaimer is that I was only 5 and I don't remember too much but we have lots of photos.

I remember the berlin wall coming down and not understanding the significance.at all. I was 10 at the time.

I also remeber the Warrington bombing. I was14 and i remember feeling really upset about the boys that were killed.

Dunblane. I was 9. Within a week my own primary school had made massive changes to their own rather lax security. New gates, intercoms on the outer doors so people had to be buzzed into the building. I suppose until then it didn't occur to anyone that children would be slaughtered at school.

Columbine shooting a few years later.

When I was 15 there was 9/11. Got home in time from school to see the towers both collapse live on television and ask my mum "but there must still be so many people still inside...." and before that people jumping. What they must have being going through inside the building to jump like that still makes me shiver.

Princess Diana dying and all the media furore round that but not understanding it at all. The outpouring of grief was phenomenal. Watched the funeral on tv but only because my gran had it on. The royal family have never interested me all that much.

I was 12 for 9/11 and I didn't really understand the significance at all. I didn't have any baseline for how many people "normally" die in disasters/accidents/attacks so I didn't realise that the number was so hugely out of proportion. I feel like it sort of set my baseline for that as weirdly high as well.

I also didn't really comprehend immediately that the buildings falling down had just immediately killed thousands of people. It was just a building falling down. Horrific in hindsight :( I think it was the 10th anniversary I watched it all again and really felt it for the first time.

9/11 I was in primary school

The berlin wall coming down.
And there was a newsflash during Hartbeat (the art one with Tony Hart not the 60s police) when terry waite was released. I had no idea who he was.

The berlin wall coming down.
And there was a newsflash during Hartbeat (the art one with Tony Hart not the 60s police) when terry waite was released. I had no idea who he was.

The Dunblane school shooting
Pan-am crash at Lockerbie

9/11 is by far the biggest media coverage/memorable event during my lifetime. I was 25 at the time.

Princess Diana; I was 8.

The miner's strike also sticks in my mind.

Margaret Thatcher steeling down (although I was about 19) I was 4 when she got in and was there throughout my childhood. Growing up in the NE, a hatred of her and the Conservatives was ingrained in me, even when I was too young to understand why.

Stepping down!

I remember Kennedy being assassinated, they broke into children's tv, and I went and told my mum in the kitchen that the children's programmes weren't on any more because of what had just happened. It didn't mean much to me, but I will always remember her shock as she sat not believing what we were being told. I also remember the Bay of Pigs hoo Haa as my dad was terrified ww3 would break out. Churchill funeral and Aberfan too - that was heartbreaking.