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 remember Jamie Bulger that's the first one that came into my head.

But I also remember the Iraqis war breaking out too.

I also remember many mentioned on here (as was the same age as as posters saying they remember them!)

It's odd how some things stick in your mind more despite remembering earlier huge events.

I also remember Zeebruge and would have been 6yo.
Remember IRA bombings.
I was older when Princess Di died.
I also remember as an adult watching the Italian ferry where the captain abondoned his passengers!

Oh and then I remember massive media coverage about Holly and Jessica Chapman because I was only three years old than them at the time and it scared me.

*Three years older than them

Dunblane, Omagh, Princess Di's death, 9/11

I also remember lots of media coverage about a lad called Anthony Nolan resulting in the bone marrow donor register.

James Bulger murder, I was 9 at the time and I remember it quite vividly and everyone spoke about it for ages. It was the first time I truly understood murder. My youngest brother was the same age as James at the time and I couldn't understand how anyone could be so awful so it was quite upsetting.

The war in Bosnia and Diana dying. My mum's was the queen's coronation.

@SingaSong12 the Murray brothers grew up in Dunblane and have associations to the school shooting there. Pan/Am Lockerbie disaster is different event.

Bradford City Fire. I was very young but it left a real impression on me and a fear of being trapped and fire.

I also have vivid memories of my mum crying so many many times watching the funerals of those killed in the troubles, both sides. I must have been very young the first time as I couldn't understand why she was crying about folk she didn't know.

DH first memory is the La Mon bombing as he lived very close.

Silver Jubilee
Elvis dying
Shah of Iran assassination

Agree with those posters saying they feel ancient - 9/11 sometimes feels like only 10 or so years ago to me, but it was 2001. 😱

Earliest childhood memory was prob the fuss around Thatcher being first female PM in Britain (this seemed like a big deal, shame she wasn't a better role model in the end!). I vaguely remember stuff about the Queens Silver Jubilee two years earlier in 77 but we were def not a royalist household or area so it wasn't celebrated that I can remember.

Then John Lennon being shot, Reagan being shot, the Pope being shot, Cold War fears and lots of IRA bombings. Fun times

The moon landings and Charles and Di's wedding.

God, I remember all the stuff about Charles and Di bubbling under for years in the Sun, Mirror, NOTW and the like.

I remember the sort of people who would probably be described as being 'Guardianistas' these days banging on about how it was all untrue and made up for the papers and how dreadfully intrusive it all was.

They rather ended up with egg on their face when it turned out all the rumours were true and then some more on top plus the Wales' were the ones actually feeding it all to the papers.

Silver jubilee. We were living near Windsor at the time and we had a street party on the main road from Windsor to Maidenhead (got permission to close part of the road) turned out that the queen was going to go that way to a new engagement! We had the tables on the pavements and games and a parade in the road and cleared the road about 20 minutes before the queen was due. We were all waving flags, bunting and balloons everywhere and she/they slowed her car and she said thank you for your support and have fun about a dozen times through our little group! I was about 9.

Lockerbie
Diana and Charles wedding and her death.
Falklands war but I think my parents tried to cover most of that up.

Elvis's funeral. It was televised, I was 7.

The miners strikes, the word "scab" will be forever etched, the absolute travesty of the situation introduced me to politics, industry and hardship.

The Yorkshire ripper, I remember feeling scared as it got dark wanting everyone to get into their houses.

Ben Needham, he was on that's life, then in the papers and on the news. His story fascinated me, the concept of organ donation and medical advancement, his story is why I became a nurse.

Our present Queen's coronation. We all piled into a neighbour's house to watch on her tv. We al had to be absolutely silent. The thing I remember most about that was being told off for wetting my pants, I was 3 and too scared to ask for the toilet.

Dunblane, Diana, 911, Louise something or other (British nanny accused of murdering little boy in Us)

Not Ben needham, it was Ben something, he had liver failure on that's life with Esther ranzen.. Ben Hardwick, that was him.

The raising of the Mary Rose. Hour after hour of sitting, bored shitless, at school staring at yellow cranes and the sea, anticipating how exciting and worth the wait it will be to see this huge Tudor flagship, imagining it coming to the surface in a blaze of glory, tattered sails flapping from the masts ... eventually, just before we all lost the will to live, we were rewarded with the sight of an old chunk of wood (all historical significance lost on our 9/10 year old selves). We then queued up to play the accompanying game on the BBC Micro ... it was equally thrilling!

gruuumbleweec I was sick in the middle of watching Queen Mary's funeral. Got smacked for it.
It was our telly that everyone came to watch the Coronation on - a 9” screen. 😊

First is probably death of Diana, I was 6 and annoyed because I wanted to watch the simpsons.

9/11 of course

I often find it much stranger to think of all the things I was alive for, and don't remember (Columbine is a big one for me, I would have been 7 almost 8)

The one I remember being most upset about was the Soham murders, because I was around the same age as Holly and Jessica.

I vividly remain the big postal strike of 1971. I was 9 and my dad was a postman who crossed the picket lines. I didn't really understand but I felt instinctively it was wrong and was the first indication that politically we would be poles apart. Patty Hearst being kidnapped and then turning 'terrorist' also sticks in my mind.

And a girl called Lucy Partington disappearing in the early 70s - she caught my attention as she was described in the press as pretty. This surprised me as she wore glasses like I did and I was convinced that wearing glasses meant I would always be ugly. Many years later she was identified as one of Fred West's victims and I remembered her instantly.

Vaguely remember Cambodia being mentioned a lot, definitely remember John Lennon being shot, ABBA splitting up, Charles & Di's engagement (lots of shots of his walking about in a kilt and her looking shy) and the Falkland War (especially Simon Weston and me writing 'poo' next to Argentina on the list of countries in the back of my dictionary)

@emilyalice, clearly our mothers read the same child rearing books😃