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..

Holly Wells and Jessica Simpson. I returned from a holiday in Devon to it plastered all over the news. It really affected me. Those poor girls.

I remember the Charles and Di wedding. Other things that stick out are live aid/1984 famine in Ethiopia not so much the music, but I think I did something from Blue Peter. Of the major disasters Pan Am, it was only when the Murray brothers were playing well that I realised how big Lockerbie was.

Tommy Cooper dying particularly stick out.

I remember that too. It was such a weird experience at the time.

Also Silver Jubilee vaguely, but definitely remember Charles and Diana's wedding and the massive street parties.

Gulf War and Freddie Mercury dying.

Charles and Diana's wedding. Thirty-six years ago tomorrow! I was 9.

9/11.
I was 11 and had just started secondary school. I came home from school that day non the wiser about it and my mum had the news coverage on the tv. I'd never even heard of terrorism until that day and how people can be so evil.

The Queen's Coronation - I was eight and we had a street party.

Chernobyl.

All I remember of Charles and Di's wedding was it was a very hot day and playing with the kids next door while our parents watched the wedding.

First clear memory of a big event was when I was seven and the whole junior school was sat down in front of a telly in the school hall to watch the Mary Rose being raised.

It's an interesting question because obviously the major media events that people remember place them quite accurately as being of a particular generation!

Like a lot of people here Princess Diana's death really sticks in my memory. Then 9/11 four years later.

I remember being aware of Dunblane and understand how sad it was but I wasn't quite old enough at that point to be aware of the media.

The moon landings, just about... I was 4.
Decimalisation, 1971.
The Americans leaving Vietnam.
Princess Anne's wedding.

I vaguely remember watching news coverage of the fall of Saigon, and my parents explaining what was happening (I was 11).

Elvis dying. I was 13 and a massive fan (my uncle and grandparents were hugely into Elvis - it rubbed off!). I still remember being really upset.

John Lennon being shot.

Nelson Mandela being released from prison.

I don't actually remember this, but apparently my parents woke my sister and I up to watch the moon landing in 1969 (I was five, my sister was 3 - not sure we appreciated it but at least I can say we saw it!).

I was born in 1970 I seem to recall a lot of really bad news stories in the 80s
Challenger
Hillsborough
Lockerbie
Bradford city fire
Kings cross
Piper alpha..

And then much later in my life but something that will never leave me is dunblane.

Peter Sutcliffes carnage and the absolute literal terror he brought to Yorkshire. The women marching. People shouting when he was arrested and charged.

Moors murders

Berlin Wall and then Dunblane are the ones I really remember from being quite young. The former I remember being aware that it was happening. The latter, being a bit older, I can visualise the exact seat and classroom I was in and the teacher coming in and telling us.

John Lennon being shot. I was playing next door and I don't know if this actually happened but I feel like I remember Countdown being interrupted for a newsflash.

AIDS. I was terrified by the the news footage and the advertising campaign.

The Hungerford shootings, Mark Tildesely disappearance and Charles and Dianas wedding.

"9/11. I was 11 and had just started secondary school. I came home from school that day non the wiser about it and my mum had the news coverage on the tv. I'd never even heard of terrorism until that day and how people can be so evil."

thepastisinthepast sadly I grew up with the constant threat from the IRA in the 1970s. We even had a bomb scare at my school.

News generally seemed really boring- mainly old Tory men. I remember Norman Lamont's eyebrows. Before then, Arthur Scargill shouting. John Craven reporting on civil war in Lebanon. I didn't used to listen to the news but it always seemed to be on television.

Either fergie and andrew wedding or diana dieing.

Agree...hungerford shootings now you say

Falklands War. I had chickenpox so I was home from school and it was the only thing on the telly all day.

Choccyjules, must be a false memory - countdown was a channel 4 programme; channel 4 first went on air nearly two years after John Lennon died.