What are the news story’s you will never forget where you were at the time.

[Blueyparentsmychild]

just that really,

mine will always be 7/7 - was caught up in it
grenfell tower - lived locally
9/11
Manchester bombing
probably the queens death to.

Miner’s strike - mining community and I was 9 appalled by horse man traps to deter police horses without really understanding the issues at hand.

Chernobyl - we were being daft and chucking a scarf about at school over an outdoor balcony in the rain. We were disciplined because we shouldn’t have been out in acid rain.

I was at work when 911 happened and remember how weird it was.

I was 19 and at a house party when Diana died. Someone knocked on a door to tell us. Very surreal.

I can’t remember exactly where I was for many of the other things mentioned although I remember a lot of them happening.

I have this unconfirmed feeling that I watched the Challenger disaster live at school because we were watching the lift off. But it seems unlikely that the whole school crowded around a BBC computer so maybe I just saw it on Newsround. I do remember the Blue Peter episode where the female teacher was in talking about it.

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and my relatives danced on the wall.

So many people have written lists of news on here, but not where they were or what they were doing at the time, which was what was asked for. aberfan,came back from school late F told me. John Lennon,was just leaving the staff car park at the hospital where I worked it came on the car radio. Princess Diana,in bed after a night shift, staggered downstairs and my youngest DS told me.

I'd forgotten about Michael Jackson's death. It was my birthday and we'd got last minute tickets to see Blur as they were doing a few warm up gigs before they headlined Glastonbury that weekend. They went off stage before the encore and rumours started going round that he'd been found dead.

@Nannyfannybanny , OP didn't ask for where they were or what they were doing at the time, it asks for "What are the news story’s you will never forget where you were at the time."

The majority of posters haven't said where they were at the time.

Does it really matter? Why derail an interesting thread?

If you remember where you were at the time,it has more impact on you. Why just list bad news.

Why ruin an interesting thread?

Falklands War
Lockerbie Bombing Massacre
Fall of Communism across Eastern Europe - fall of the Berlin Wall, fall of Romanian Dictatorship, Yugoslavian Wars
War in Kuwait
Dunblane Massacre
Diana's Death (not a royalist but who could forget that if they lived through it?)
9/11
Afghanistan
Syria
Ukraine

So many negative and scary events - I suppose the Fall of Communism is more positive in certain ways, though it wasn't exactly an overnight 'everything is ok now' either.

I remember where I was for all of these events (them happening or the initial realisation) but am not going to actually list all the locations.

9/11 we were on a residential school trip so I didn’t hear anything about it until my mum was driving me home from the coach and it was on the radio - I was asking her to elaborate and she wouldn’t tell me what had happened (I guess as she was listening to the radio but I was just like, ‘fill me in??🙄’)

Also Princess Di - I was 7 and I was confused as there was no kids tv on when I got up and went to tell my parents and looking back I think I, er, interrupted them 😄🤢 and they were like ‘they’re just saying what would happen IF she died’ and I was like, nooo don’t think so! Then my mum cried all day and the BBC showed Les Mis.

Oh are we not meant to say where we were? 😵‍💫 well, soz!

Hillsborough - in a TV shop with my boyfriend buying a VCR
9/11 - in a second hand dress agency and heard on the radio that a plane had flown into the WTC. We thought they meant a light aircraft had hit it
7/7 - at work first news report was of a possible 'gas explosion' at a tube station
Madeline McCann - on holiday in Nice
Elvis - camping in Devon with family, uncle came into our tent with a newspaper

I'm the same and always thought I was the only one. So thanks. I can work it out but wouldn't know straight away. I just don't link it like that.

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news I mentioned, but it's not going to be of interest to anyone else.

@BingoMarieHeeler , OP doesn't specifically ask for it but neither does it say not to.

Aberfan - the son of my parent’s neighbour was one of those digging out the children. He never spoke about it. I remember those dreadful photos in the papers.

I’m an American, but the first part of this was my experience too - I found out when I turned on the TV and none of the kids’ shows were on.

I was in French class on 9/11 when they announced over the loudspeaker that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center in New York. I wasn’t really aware of terrorism and I figured it was some angry-at-the-world guy who wanted to make a statement with a huge murder-suicide.

I was not a particular fan of Robin Williams, but I always remember the exact date he died because it was a family member’s birthday the year I was pregnant with my older daughter. We were in the car coming back from the party and it was on the radio.

I was a particular fan of Heath Ledger, and was standing by my parents’ kitchen table watering plants when it was on the news. I just could. Not. Believe it. He wasn’t known to have a big drug problem, people were looking forward to the release of The Dark Knight, and he had a two-year-old daughter. It was the first time a celebrity I really liked who was close-ish to my age had died. (He was 28 and I was 21.)

This one isn’t mine, but I have to share - my husband remembers being a little kid and hearing about the Lorena Bobbitt story. He was sort of weirdly transfixed because he couldn’t believe Connie Chung had just said “penis” on the news. 😂

OK, I'll give the locations for mine, none of them very exciting:

9-11: In computer/ IT room at work; suddenly heard a TV in nearby office; no one watched TV there, so was instantly alerted to something unusual happening. Ran to see. At first thought it was a terrible accident,

7-7: At home, listening to radio. Then frantically trying to phone my mum, who lived in London and sometimes travelled on public transport. Couldn't get her at first; was frantic with worry; finally did get her- she was fine and had not used public transport that day,

Brexit referendum result: On home computer in office room, just before going to work,

Trump getting elected: Ditto. And when I got into work, my office-mate greeted me with 'Oh, I'm so relieved that Trump beat Hillary!' Not the best thing to say to me at this point.

Of all things to stick in one's memory forever: Sir Keith Joseph becoming Education Secretary in 1981! I knew he'd be a disaster and he was. I was at my parents' house, in living room watching news on TV.

1997 election; especially my mum ringing at about 2 a.m. to tell me that Wimbledon, where she lived, had become a Labour gain! At home, in my living room watching TV, and then receiving the phone call in my bedroom.

Apollo 11 moon landing, when I was a kid. At home, watching TV with parents and visit

Recently, the Queen's death and funeral, and the King's coronation. All of these on home computer in office-room.

The murder of Lee Rigby. I could not believe what I was seeing on the news.

Diana's death
911 - my birthday
Queen's death - was on holiday and all the locals ran out to tell everyone

Diana's death, I walked into a shop and overheard it on the radio, I walked straight home.
9/11, I was walking my dog when my sister called and told me.
Queens death, I was cleaning at a friend's when the first announcement happened.
Boxing day tsunami, I was on a 4 HR layover in Malaysia en route to New Zealand.
Dunblane, I was watching morning TV when Anne Diamond broke the news.
Hillsborough , I watched it unfold on the TV, I remember going downstairs and telling my dad something bad was happening at the football, I was 15 at the time.

9/11, I was at a temp job amd my boss was very flippant about who the US had pissed off now until we realised the scale of what was unfolding.

Madeline McCann - I was in the dentist waiting room and it came on the news.

Kurt Cobains death - it was announced on the 10 pm news. I was in bed and my mum came and told me. I sobbed all that night (emotional teen).

Depends on your age.

Lots of people will remember Dianas death of course.
I remember Jill dándos death.

Ok mine

at home news came on and I ran to the school my kids went as they didn’t say what one Dunblane
at home again Diana
shopping when the news came through about the Queen

happy now