What is the first news story you remember?

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I think it was Rhys Jones murder in 2007 for me.

Little Jamie Bulger when I was about 9 or 10.
Although I do have a memory of my mum watching the news before school about a war or some kind of military fighting that i thought was far away. I remember asking if it would come here, meaning our little east coast seaside town, and she said it could do. Not sure if that was true or what it actually was about but I remember being scared. I would have been about 5 or 6, around 1988 or 1989.

The Brighton bombing and the Irish conflict generally I think, and the miners strike.

I have very vague memories of the Vietnam War, the Troubles and as as single incident, the Moorgate train crash. I'm 54 and was probably 5-7 when these happened.

Some of you guys seem so young in comparison.

The moon landing in 1969 I was eight, images on a black and white TV and on the radio, and seeing the moon in the sky

Turkish invasion of Cyprus, 1974.

Pope dying. 1963?

@Itreallyistimetochangethings I think that would be Cecil Parkinson!

First I can remember is Watergate

Princess Diana dying when I was 5. I don't think I was aware of her before she died but I remember my mum watching the funeral and feeling sad because like most little girls I was obsessed with princesses. I remember seeing Tony Blair on a billboard at around the same age, so maybe before his election? I'm not sure

Elvis died

First major one was probably Dunblane - as a Scottish school child it directly affected us until the handgun ban as we had shooter drills for a number of months.

I do remember John Major being PM though, although no specifics, and this obviously predates Dunblane.

Lennon being shot, when I was 8.

Kennedy Assassination 63 I was playing on the floor & it was announced on the radio (time drift because we were in Australia - I think it was Sunday morning their time - I went to other room to tell my parents who at first didn't believe me but came in to listen
My Lai Massacre in Vietnam 68 - we heard a lot of Vietnam because Australia was involved - they also had that (odd) conscription (it was done by lottery for birth dates young men of 20 (?19) who had birthdays in that time period were conscripted - my older sister's boyfriends narrowly missed conscription.
72 Vietnam that photo/film of that little girl being burnt by napalm

Elvis death. I guess it only stuck because I presume my parents must have reacted. I might remember earlier events on the news but that's the first thing that pops to mind. I was 3.

I feel quite old now 😂

My Dad remembered (before dementia) of hearing of the death of George V (1936) on the family radio. He was 5

The Yorkshire Ripper - 1979
Skylab falling to Earth - 1979 (on Blue Peter)
Iranian Embassy siege in London - 1980 (incredible in those days to see actual footage on TV of the SAS storming it)
John Lennon shot - 1980 - very shocking

The herald of free enterprise ferry sinking or the kings cross fire, whatever one came first. Lockerbie seems to be in there as well as Hillsborogh bit I think they are a bit later on.

The Iranian embassy siege. I'm officially old

Princess Diana dying in 1997 when I was 10.

The ferry was first, I would have been 4.

Poll tax protestors. I was 10. Amazed I don't remember news before that age.

There are two and I don't know which was first but they both had a big impact on me. Hillsbourgh and Dunblaine.

I remember crying quite historically on my mums shoulder asking how this can happen- but I don't remember which of these it was.

The Lockerbie bombing, maybe because I live not far from there and it was all everyone was talking about, I remember being upset in a way I hadn't before. 8 would have been 9 or 10 years old

Lockerbie. I remember hearing about it whilst sat in the back of the car on a long journey, probably visiting relatives for Christmas, and being terrified of planes falling out of the sky for a long time.

James Bulger disappearing

Probably Berlin Wall too. I think I was nine or ten. We had a Berlin Wall of pencil cases between our set and the next set at school 😀