What is the first news story you remember?

[Lockdowner35]

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

On Mumsnet in 2040....

Brexit. I had no idea what it was all about, because I was only 7 at the time, but everyone seemed to be amazed that the country had voted for Brexit. The Prime Minister resigned while I was having my breakfast, and that wasn’t even the lead story on the news. Everybody then spent the next five years arguing about it.

The Moors Murders - because I lived in the area and remember parents telling us to be careful and not to talk to strangers. Then not sure which way around, but Aberfan and the Biafran famine. The fact is was children again, so I guess I associated with it.

Silver jubilee

Pictures of the 1976 drought on tv. I was 3

@NovemberR
I remember that too, his music being blasted everywhere too

Hillsborough.

The Zeebrugge ferry disaster.

I remember Mrs Thatcher (when PM) being on Newsround demonstrating how to make some sort of drink, it wasn’t really news but for some reason it’s stuck in my mind!

The Falklands. Or possibly the raising of the Mary Rose. Would have to Google to check which way round they were (Have done now and see they were the same year)

The launch of Sputnik in 1957.

Piper Alpha.
I was 4 ish but vividly remember the BBC footage and Red Adair putting out the fire a few weeks later.
I can clearly my parents and grandparents discussing it at length when the news broke. I now now it’s because several of the men who’d been pitmen with my dad had left the pits to work on the rigs.

Silver Jubilee, 1977

The sinking of RFA Sir Galahad during the Falklands War. The father of one the girls in my class was potentially on it, she didn't know if he was for sure and another girl shouted out across the TV room - boarding school - that the ship had sunk and "isn't that the one your Dad is on?" and she started to cry. It was awful. There were lots of daughters of military people at that school including me so we knew what she was going through. Not the insensitive shouter though.

Probably Elvis dying in 1977

Princess Diana’s death

Lockerbie

I'm not sure which is earlier but the Zeebrugge ferry disaster and hills borough tragedy.

Dunblane.

Without reading this thread I'd have said the first gulf war or Terry Waite being released. Having read this I think I remember having the day off in reception class for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. I'm 39 now.

Prob IRA bombings

The Moon Landings - I think I was 3 but remember the pictures on our black & white tv.

The Ethiopian famine, I was two, it haunted me.

9/11

Death of George VI.