What is the first news story you remember?

[AmbsPhillps]

I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

As an 8 year old living in Sheffield, the Hillsborough fiasco

Iraq invading Kuwait. I was intrigued by the whole thing and became a bit terrified of saddam Hussain - I was 6. Also Thatcher resigning around the same time.

This subject has made me feel very very old.

@Covert20 I remember that detail so clearly because it was so shocking. DH corroborates my version of events too. I rang him when I realised what was happening. It was during that conversation that the second plane hit.

Ethiopian famine in 1984 I was 8

I 'remember' one that I was told never happened! Just before my 4th I 'remember' it was very cold and late morning I went to the coal bunker at the side of the house with my mother when she was getting coal. The lady across the road came to the end of our path and said 'Isn't it dreadful, the King's dead. My mother always said it never happened, my father told her before he went out to work at 7.30. During the various Jubilees recently it was said that the death was announced publicly at 11.30. By that time my mother was gone so I couldn't say Told yer so!
My first real memory was the Coronation, we had a tiny TV, one of the first in our road, lots of people came to watch and the curtains had to be closed, usual with the early TVs.

This subject has made me feel very very old.

Bring your zimmer frame over and sit with me! Sanatogen all round.

Nixon’s resignation. 1974

Probably the Aberfan Pit Disaster in Wales. We lived in a mining village in Scotland and could see one of the pit bings from our school (although our school was high up on a hill) so I think that's why I so vividly remember it. I remember the shock and sadness in our village and our teachers having us pray for those affected. I was 4, in P1.

Re 9/11

A lot of people have false memories. I know I do. I think because it was the first disaster or the rolling news age.

On the anniversary a couple of weeks ago people were recalling where they were and what they had seen. A couple of people said they had seen the first planer hit. Unless you were actually in New York that day you didn't. It was filmed by sheer luck and wasn't made available to TV straight away. I think it was more than 24hours.

The people who filmed it were making documentary about a rookie fire fighter, they spent most of the rest of the day following fire fighters and worrying about each other (brothers, one at the fire house and one on the street when the first tower was hit).

For anyone who remembers Aberfan, or wants to know more about the village after the disaster can I recommend

gallery.icrapoport.com/-/galleries/aberfan ?

Chuck Rapoport was a young photographer who went to Aberfan a week after the disaster and photographed, "A town with no children".

The photos are of 'normal life' or as normal as it could be. Children who had survived were not allowed out to play so as not to upset grieving parents. The milkman who could tell which families had lost people because of their milk order.

I have a false memory of 9/11 too. I have a vivid memory of watching it on TV and my dad telling me that the building was going to collapse.

But I know I wasn't with my dad that day, I was at home and he was out for the day with my mum. I was in my 20s and already married. I rang him to tell him to find a TV.

Mine is The Berlin Wall. When it fell, not when they built it

That makes me feel old!

I can remember it going up. It happened around the time of my birthday.

Jamie Bulger being murdered

Beautiful little James Bulger

I was only 10, but my parents let me watch the news and read the Sun newspaper. I remember it really shocked me and made me see the world differently afterwards.

Major taking over from Thatcher. I remember getting the impression from the news that she had been made to leave and didn't want to and I felt very sad for her and thought it was very mean of the men that were making her do it

Lol, that is one of my best ever news memories!

I worked for a London council then, and a few of us had stayed late to get some committee papers out. We had the tv on while we waited for the last reports to come back from the printers.

A huge cheer went up when it was announced and after we'd finished we all went to the pub to celebrate.

I hated that woman more than I had ever hated anyone, but I hate the current resident of number 10 more.

Wasn't a macabre child, but earliest news memories are all grim stuff: Zeebrugge, the Bradford City fire, Kings Cross fire, Marchioness disaster, Hillsborough. Remember the fall of the Berlin Wall and Nelson Mandela being freed from jail. Poll tax riots. Thatcher leaving No 10. Mother Theresa's death, Princess Diana. 9/11 felt mercifully like the last "stop the world, hold the front page" moment to me.

Elvis dying. We were on holiday in a caravan and I can remember my dad bringing the newspaper back from the shop and telling my mum. She cried non stop for seemed like hours. When we got home they had all his films on tv and we watched them with her. She’s still a huge elvis fan.

@VeraPink

The death of Princess Diana

Same I remember coming down stairs wanting to watch some kids tv and it was on every channel so put a video on instead

The miners strike. It seemed to go on for ever.

9/11 - A couple of people said they had seen the first plane hit. Unless you were actually in New York that day you didn't

So was there a film of the second plane hitting? I read the breaking news on teletext, then took the kids swimming. When we came out of the pool there was a TV on in the reception area showing a plane hitting the twin towers.

9/11 was rolling tv news coverage so after the first plane had hit (not shown on tv) all the tv news networks were filming the burning north tower live as the second plane came into view and hit the south tower and many of the news anchors hadn't noticed the plane and were initially a bit confused as to why the other tower suddenly had a big explosion. It was only then that it became obvious it wasn't just an accidental plane crash.

1972 Munich Olympics but not for the great sports. I remember it for the death of the Israeli athletes.
Also remember the war in Cambodia and Vietnam, but didn't really understand what was going on.
Also remember the Ethiopian famine in the early 70s

The miners strike. And the Mary rose.

The moon landing

Elvis dying