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what news stories happened in your lifetime but you were too young to remember them?

55 replies

CheeseChe · 03/12/2023 23:45

the Wests being caught

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PollyannaWhittier · 03/12/2023 23:50

Princess Diana dying

SisterMichaelsHabit · 03/12/2023 23:50

LOL I came on this thread to say Fred and Rose West. I was actually 7 or 8 but my parents turned the news off a lot around then (we were also banned from talking about The Troubles or knowing about new IRA attacks, being Irish). Di and Charles' divorce. The end of Thatcher (I remember Major though).

stitchinguru · 03/12/2023 23:50

Man landing on the Moon - but I was 3 weeks old

Lizzieregina · 03/12/2023 23:52

JFK being assasinated. I was alive, but a baby.

SisterMichaelsHabit · 03/12/2023 23:53

The reason the Wests come to mind is I actually only found out about them earlier this year. I am almost forty and for feck's sake I had to sleep with the light on that night as I'd read the Wikipedia page at work. 😱
Edited to add: I'd Googled them because I'd been reading a true crime thread on MN and didn't know who they were. 🤦‍♀️

LoveTheDarts · 04/12/2023 00:00

Watergate
3 day week
Flixborough- my favourite conspiracy theory
Man U being relegated 😜
Moorgate tube crash

I'm just able to remember the summer of 76 though and queuing for water from a stand pipe.

tescocreditcard · 04/12/2023 00:02

Aberfan

SkaneTos · 04/12/2023 00:04

Fall of the Berlin Wall.
I was 2 years old then.

StarsOnAMat · 04/12/2023 00:19

Lockerbie. I was six and we live in Scotland but I was unaware of it until much later in my life.

LaurieStrode · 04/12/2023 00:25

Lizzieregina · 03/12/2023 23:52

JFK being assasinated. I was alive, but a baby.

Same here. I vaguely remember the moon landing.

itsatravestyy · 04/12/2023 00:26

9/11!

HoobleDooble · 04/12/2023 00:35

I was born in 1973, I remember Concord being on the news, don't remember Elvis dying and the first big news story I remember actually sitting and paying attention to was John Lennon being murdered in 1980, shortly followed by the Yorkshire Ripper being caught.

Trinity65 · 04/12/2023 01:14

Funeral of Winston Churchill
Woodstock
Moon Landing
Murder of Sharon Tate and others
Aberfan
Moors Murders arrest and Trial

Angrymum22 · 04/12/2023 01:16

Moon landing. I vaguely remember the Vietnam war being on the news regularly. The Beatles, I was born in 2964 but don’t remember them until John Lennon died and all their music was rereleased.
I do remember the Troubles, it was sort of the backdrop to my childhood. I started Uni in Birmingham in 1982 and the effects of the city centre bombing had had a major impact on the city centre. There was no nightlife centrally, the clubs were on the periphery and people were still a bit wary of venues. It is so different now. We had a lecture by the consultant who was on call at the Accident Hospital the night it happened, it was horrific. Coincidentally one of the midwives who looked after me while I was in for complications was the daughter of a barmaid working in one of the pubs.
I also grew u in West Yorkshire so the Yorkshire Ripper case was very real. Although like most teenagers we were oblivious to the risks.

EveryKneeShallBow · 04/12/2023 01:21

Aberfan

HeartandSeoul · 04/12/2023 01:23

Prince Charles marrying Lady Di. The same year I was born!

FFSNHS · 04/12/2023 07:19

Jesus rising from the dead. That would been awesome worldwide TV news

ElinoristhenewEnid · 04/12/2023 07:22

Great train robbery
Cuban crisis
JFK assassination
Profumo affair

Echobelly · 04/12/2023 07:23

John Lennon being shot dead

ANightingale · 04/12/2023 07:26

Death of Elvis.

FlouncingBabooshka · 04/12/2023 09:59

Lizzieregina · 03/12/2023 23:52

JFK being assasinated. I was alive, but a baby.

Me too. I was less than a month old when he was assassinated. I do remember the first moon landing; it's my earliest memory of a news story. I was five and I remember my mum bringing me in to the room and telling me the man on the television was walking on the moon.

Seeline · 04/12/2023 10:03

Moon landings.
Martin Luther King being assassinated. The day I was born.

Grantanow · 08/12/2023 15:55

The very cold winter of 1947 when coal was in short supply.

FionnulaTheCooler · 08/12/2023 15:56

The miners strikes.

PTSDBarbiegirl · 08/12/2023 15:58

The American moon landing.... Or was it?!