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 can just about remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even at a really young age having my parents explaining that it was really important.

Death of Princess Diana is definitely the main one from when I was a bit older.

Bizarrely, I can clearly remember being very upset by the death of Ayrton Senna.

I remember Charles and Diana's wedding as a child but mainly the street party, I may have seen it on TV but I don't remember that. There was a gushy Fairytale Princes book about her written by a child which was popular for a moment and somebody bought me.

I was a fairly young adult and working outside the UK when she died and couldn't understand why an American colleague expected me to be devastated by the news when he thoughtfully phoned me to tell me... I know its fashionable now to think she was wonderful, but meh - Queen of Hearts? How full of yourself do you have to be to come out with that, and that ridiculous interview with the theatrically staged runny eye liner... Presumably she wouldn't have been around much for her kids anyway - its easy to be sentimental...

I remember the miners strike and the Fawklands war more specifically in terms of actually watching TV coverage at secondary school - history teacher was very political and that was allowed in those days.

Also remember the first Comic Relief and Live Aid as more specifically pure media phenomena.

The Zeebrugge Ferry disaster. I was 10, living in Germany with a Mother who was terrified of flying but who wanted to see her parents in the UK in the summer and at Christmas. Ferry journeys were never the same after that.

*Falklands sorry, no idea where the W came from.

Oddly though I remember the fall of the Berlin Wall being announced in assembly and again the history teacher talking about it I don't remember TV coverage at all from when it actually happened - the mental images I have come from a much later visit to Berlin and museums, and later TV reviews etc.

Mine was probably the Hillsborough disaster. My dad had moved out quite recently and was living in Sheffield, he was a fireman and I watched the footage with tears rolling down my face. Mum let me ring him the next day to check he was ok as he had been on duty. He didn't answer for the first 3 tries and I will never forget the feeling that he might be gone, I was 10.
My other clear memory was the Zeebrugh ferry disaster, I remember seeing it on tv and then going out to buy 'Let it Be' as it was the charity single

Elvis dying. We didn't have a TV at home, so I missed a lot of news, but on this occasion I was at my aunt's and she cried.

I remember all of those.

The sad thing is that place names like Hungerford, Lockerbie and Dunblane will always have such sad associations because of what happened there. We stayed in Hungerford in 1993 for a family occasion and it is a charming little town. All I could think of on the drive there was the massacre that happened in 1987.

Oh my goodness - how old does 9/11 being a childhood memory for somebody posting on here make me feel...

The moon landing
Olga Korbut at the Munich Olympics

Live Aid, Nelson Mandela being released from prison, IRA bombings, Chernobyl, Hilsborough

The Berlin Wall was a massive event, wasn't it? I remember my mum and dad being really pleased. They were alive during the war and I think that wall was the last permanent memory of it for them.

Lots of these, but also Chernobyl which I don't think anyone has mentioned.

tshernobyl

2 stick out for me - The Lockerbie bombing in 1988 (I was 10) and the fall of the Berlin Wall the following year...

Hillsborough and Challenger

The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. I watched it at my grandmas with my best friend, I was about 7 at the time and I was enchanted by the fairytale wedding that it was. Little did I know how tragic it would all end.

We stopped lessons to watch the raising of the Mary Rose.

Is anyone on here old enough to remember what they were doing when Kennedy was shot?

Elivs dying for me too. I was 8 or 9 and didn't really know who he was but I do remember it being on the tv and it being a really big deal.

I also remember Charles and Diana's wedding, the pope coming to Glasgow, we got the day off school, Margaret thatcher being made first female prime minister and rhe continuous media commentary on her gender.

Torville and Dean's gold medal. The death of John Lennon. The sinking of various ships in the Falklands.

When they caught the Yorkshire Ripper. I was a student in Leeds at the time. We celebrated.

I was in the Middle East growing up, so for me it was the first Gulf War and also the troubles in Egypt (not safe for tourists for many years). Also, the death of Diana and inauguration of Big Brother (apologies for putting those in the same sentence)!!

From 0-10 it was John Lennon being shot.
In my teens it was Hillsborough, Zebrugge and Mandela.

The Beatles splitting up.
Elvis dying.
Being bored rigid watching the Appollo Moon Landing.

Charles and Di's wedding 1981

Heysel Stadium disaster 1985

Live Aid 1985

Lockerbie 1988

Berlin Wall coming down 1989

From the ages of 10-19