What was a big news story when you were growing up that young people today wouldn't have heard of?

[Brettthepei]

the queens mother passing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M40_minibus_crash

Might have been this one

The Baader Meinhof gang.

I blame the swamp fog for making him a bit doo lally that day.

I am so old! I actually covered this story as a journalist!

Dolly the sheep, not Fred west

Dunblane massacre

Oh my gosh, thank you for mentioning the Broadcast Ban. I vividly remember this on the news. I asked my Mum about it a couple of years ago. She denied all knowledge of it and looked at me like I was crazy. I'd previously tried to look it up but obviously didn't use the correct search terms.

The Hungerford massacre.

Dunblane
Princess Diana's death
Twin towers

I've just Googled what year Louise Brown was born (first test tube baby) and was surprised to find she's not much younger than me - I remember her being on TV and it being a big thing.

I don't think my DC would know about the Louise Woodward trial for what it's worth I think she's innocent

Oh, the Hungerfird massacre!

And more recently the Soham murders. Probably one reason parents are less trusting of anyone than they used to be in times gone by.

It seems odd to me that the relaxing of the Sunday trading laws and the beginning of the National Lottery only happened about 30 years ago - funny to think that they were just not 'a thing' before that. I remember how controversial they were before they came in; although there were some surprising inconsistencies with the former, whereby you could buy a porn mag on a Sunday, but you couldn't buy a Bible.

Mind, the World Wide Web is younger than that and I can barely remember what life was like without it - even though I spent almost half of my life (to date) blissfully not online. And tell somebody under 20 now that cheque books used to have the '19' for the year helpfully pre-printed on each one and they'll say.... "What on earth is a cheque book?!"

Horse meat scandal
The Baby P case
The Hadron collider

(yes I'm in my 20s)

Lockerbie
Dolly the sheep
Townsend Thoresen ferry disaster
Hillsborough

The Orkney child abuse scandal and subsequent Clyde report.

The fuel increase blockades in 2001? Where only emergency vehicles could get petrol.

The Icelandic volcano that stopped all flights over Europe- 2011?

The actor from Allo Allo almost dying in the big storm the weatherman said wouldnt happen.

Clapham rail disaster.

River Phoenix dying of a drug overdose outside Johnny Depps club the viper room. Put me off drugs anyway.

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley getting married.

That brookside kiss.

The Ethan Hawke 1993 film Alive is about this. It's an excellent film.

The fuel increase blockades in 2001? Where only emergency vehicles could get petrol.

Wasn't that in 2000 - or did it extend into the next year too? I still think the sign on the front of the lorry that made all the papers was a work of genius: "Tell Gordon Brown 2p off!"

Me too. He was so principled and had such integrity and such a clear way of making his point.

I actually remember exactly when the Internet first started and first Nokia mobile phones came out

The Belsan school hostage situation. Absolutely tragic.

The Beslan school horror I will never forget. I'm Russian and Putin will burn in hell for this (and his many other crimes of course). Also for the Kursk submarine disaster. 😞

The fuel increase blockades in 2001? Where only emergency vehicles could get petrol.

2000 I think. Some professions could get petrol - teachers, for example.

Kegworth M1 plane crash.

As it happened a month after Lockerbie, most people - a lot of my contemporaries - haven't heard of it.
We were watching the news & my mother looked horrified as her partner was on the flight.
She'd taken him to Heathrow & he was on a later flight but as they arrived early, he got that flight.
She drove up there that night & after a couple of days had to identify his body.

Omg!! This is so awful

On the back of this thread I watched the channel 5 documentary about the abduction of Lesley Whittle. How awful that they could have got her back if not for the misunderstanding about the ransom drop instructions! Her brother must have been beside himself with the guilt over that!

Yeah I think it was 2000 as I remember being pregnant. I had a car which ran on leaded fuel not unleaded so could normally get fuel.