What is the first news story you remember?

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I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

Falklands War..

I have patchy memories of stuff which happened in 1976, including the heatwave & the Montreal Olympics, but my first ‘where were you when...’ moment was the death of Elvis Presley in 1977. He was probably the biggest celebrity on the planet, and the shock of the news was of Diana proportions.

Nixon ... there will be no whitewash in the whitehouse

I couldn't understand how the magician David Nixon could also be the POTUS....

I was little...

The IRA bombing somewhere and admitting to it. I couldn't figure out why they would tell everyone what they had done.

Tupac being shot.

The Yorkshire Ripper

The Zebrugge disaster. I remember hearing about it on the radio news when we were having breakfast.

Collapse of the Berlin Wall. Clear as day even now.

Falklands war (1982) I would have been 5 ish

I don’t know if I actually remember Diana’s wedding or remembering seeing the footage some other time.

I have very strong memories of the minors strikes because it was on the news nightly for a long time

The James Bulger murder was the first one I really followed. Thompson and Venables were in the same school year as me and I couldn't get my head around it.

The Moors Murders. I was convinced I saw Lesley Ann Down getting in a car at a local petrol station, despite living hundreds of miles away.

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The IRA bombing somewhere and admitting to it. I couldn't figure out why they would tell everyone what they had done.

Mine is an IRA bombing one too. Don't remember which one though. I think it was in London, because I remember when we'd go into the city at weekends I was really scared of bombs.

It's weird to think my DS will be reminiscing about COVID in a similar way in 2050 or so.

BSE/mad cow disease. I didn't really understand it but I was freaked out.

This isn't quite a news story but kind of funny (tragic funny though) and it's related. So, as a small child in N Ireland in the late 70s, my parents always used to have the radio on at the breakfast table and almost every morning (or what felt like it) there would be a report on someone being murdered the night before. When I was 4 my granny died and I waited to hear the report on the news because I had no idea it was possible to die in any way apart from in a bomb or being shot. I suppose I assumed someone had shot my granny because I knew there hadn't been a bomb because we lived near her.

The things that children pick up wrong!

Lockerbie

Dunblane massacre. My dad cried at the dinner table.

I grew up in a border city on the US/Mexico border and my earliest news memory was of the elections of 1976 when I was six-years-old. My father followed & voted in the Mexican election in July and my mother participated in the one with Ford v Carter in November.

I didn't care much about the politics as I was mostly interested in the 1976 Summer Olympics because I was quite taken by Nadia Comeneci and interestingly enough, the Queen because the games were in Montreal and I can remember my older sister telling me a princess was competing. I found that exciting.

The Relief at Mafeking, read it in the Daily Herald, if I recall correctly.

Charles and Diana's wedding!

The first 'direct' TV news story I remember is the assassination of JFK. I remember seeing the Walter Cronkite broadcast.

The first 'news related' story I remember (as in heard 3rd hand) was the JFK presidential campaign announcement. Our neighbor was extremely upset because 'We can't have a Catholic president, the Pope will run our Country!'. My mum had to explain to me 1-what she meant and 2-why she was wrong. I was so young that I didn't even understand what 'a Catholic' was. I just thought that 'everybody goes to Church'.

The Battle of Hastings I think.

Apols just feeling old !

definitely remember watching the moon landing in 69. In fact I think that might be it.

Lady Do getting engaged/Falklands War and the Challenger disaster are the three that spring to mind.

Good god caught that’s really thought provoking. Bloody hell eh ?

Probably the fall of the Berlin wall.

Death of Chairman Mao 1976. I remember a TV news story about how this might lead to an opening up of China to the outside world.