What is the first news story you remember?

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I think for me it was the 1999 champions league final

@Iwasonceabrownie

The death of King George VI. Yes I am that old.

Me too, I posted ages ago under another name about my memories of it. I recall going into town with my Mum to see the Queen during her tour after the Coronation, I also recall my little brother getting into trouble because when the news was on he said Bloody Queen again, obviously something he'd heard as he was about 3! Some of these memories make me feel exceptionally old, I realised the other day that it's the 20th anniversary of the Twin Towers attack this year, it can't be!

I think probably Charles and Di's wedding. I can remember my gran making a disparaging comment about the big, meringuey dress and how it looked like it hadn't been washed/ironed...

Nelson Mandela concert at Wembley in 1988.

Aberfan. I was a child and was traumatised by the news reports

Landing on the Moon (I was 5)

lockerbie.

I was brought up in a little town in Australia and i also remember Dunblane. My dad was the HT in our primary school and I recall him sobbing in front of the tv then calling his Deputy Head and arranging to send flowers.

then a few weeks later it was the Port Arthur massacre and my parents were dishing up dinner and I started screaming at the tv and they yelled at me then came and saw what was happening and we all just sat dumbfounded.

Dunblane, Port Arthur and Jamie Bolger have all had a really deep impact on me.

The Ethiopian famine and zeebrugge

9/11 even though I'd have been 12.

Iwasonceabrownie ..... you've reminded me of someone and bought tears to my eyes but thank you.

...... some years ago I came home from working an early shift and there was an old lady staring up at our house. I asked her if she was OK ?. She look at me and pointed at the house, " I stood here and watched your house burn ". " It was a Dornier, a German plane. There was no siren so I was out with my mother. It was quite low and dropped it's bombs , one hit your house". I invited her in for a cup of tea and we became good friends. We would often sit in the garden and she would tell me all about the characters who lived in our road and life as she knew it. When I asked if she could, would she go back , she smiled and said, " only if you come with me "

One day a man knocked on the door with a box. In it were loads of old photos, and a letter from Edith..... "These are for you. I'm going to miss our chats". I sat down on the front step and cried my eyes out. I miss Edith. She was lovely.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

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

Well as that happened in May 1900 you are either over 125 years old (presuming you could read aged 5) or more likely a massive liar!!

Or more likely it is misremembering perhaps an anniversary as being a current event.

(or in MN parlance 'did you meant to be so rude')

The Moors Murders. I was a young child at the time and can remember being terrified that whoever had taken the missing children would be coming for me next. I wrote about being frightened in my diary, but don't recall mentioning it to my parents. Brady and Hindley's photos still make me shudder.

The murder of James Bulger, the boys were my brothers age and I was around 7/8 I think.

I grew up in South Africa in the 80s ans 90s so there was a lot going on. When the AWB drove a tank into the world trade centre en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_Kempton_Park_World_Trade_Centre (different one from the one in NYC), CODESA, peace day, release of Nelson Mandela, multiple states of emergency being declared in various provinces as things kicked off, when the government in Bophuthatswana collapsed and there was looting, when a bomb went off in our cloak park. It was a busy time

Leah Bettes and death of Diana

9/11

The moon landing

The first gulf war , dad worked nights and came home at a time that bbc news was on on Saturday morning and I'd be waiting for him to come home also waiting for kids programs to come on

The death of Princess Diana, I distinctly remember my mum waking the entire house and be running downstairs crouching in front of the tv, eyes still blurred, hair all over the show, Dad smoking and rocking in his chair surrounded by cans of empty Tennence Super.

Like it happened yesterday.

I also vaguely remember the car bombs, but not in details like Diana, I remember it scaring me so much I sat crying in my dads car as it was ticking and cooling down, I thought it was a bomb.

Can remember what I think was the first bombs/air strikes in Afghanistan, live on air on the news, and all the flashing of guns, and a few other things linked to that.

I grew up in Malaysia in the 70s. There was a plane crash near Johor/Singapore, I think. I must’ve been about 7 years old. The local paper was full of gruesome photos of scattered body parts. I was terrified and fascinated.

I think it would be the 1984 miners strikes

Vietnamese refugees arriving in Hong Kong

I was going to say the death of Elvis but actually it was probably the year before - the '76 drought, standpipes in the street, bath with a friend etc etc.

When they knocked through to France when the started the channel tunnel

@TamzinGrey When I was 13 and visited my gran in South England in 1987, the moors murderers were on tv because of some new discoveries, bodies if i remember correctly. I went out on my grans bike round the block to explore and my aunt went spare and went to look for me and I remember her trying to say that i shouldn´t march off alone or I would be murdered by the likes of the moors murderers. I remember one of the victims who was 16 and was wearing a pink party dress, her mother fought all her life to keep the bastards in jaiI, have never forgotten it and those monsters' photos still give me the shudders too.