Submitted 2 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Easy, JFK’s assassination. I was 4, came in from the yard and found my mom and a neighbor were sitting at the kitchen table, crying. I asked what was wrong, and she said someone had shot the president.
After that, I remember being irritated that all my favorite TV shows were blocked by news coverage for days.
Princess Diana’s death, for sure. I remember my mother being absolutely distraught, and I didn’t understand why. We’re not British and I’d literally never hear of her (from my mother or otherwise) before her passing and funeral were news. The funeral took place in the middle of the night and I remember her being up super early to watch (and I eventually woke up and joined her).
I’m surprised it was 1997, I would have figured it was '95ish. Can’t believe that’s the first news story I can remember. But we definitely were NOT a news household. Nobody reading the newspaper, no local news on at night or cable TV news on TV all day.
Mine was Desert Storm, but somehow this post unlocked a core memory for me. I remember exactly what I was doing when it was announced she died - I was playing Quake, E2M1 near the start of the level when my mum tapped me on the shoulder.
I wish I could remember other things this easily, lol
A lot of American women really admired her, my wife included. She was heartbroken at her death. We stayed up all night watching it.
Very vague memories of the berlin wall being torn down as presented by mtv. I was like 6.
I remember it all over tv. All these alternative punk kids.
And I was so confused why there was a big ass wall covered in graffiti in the middle of the city and also why it was an issue.
Early 1970s, I was around 6yo, hearing a discussion on the news about black civil rights and understanding it was logical and right.
The PM dying. They've interrupted Duck Tales for that shit, the bastards!
The Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Desert Storm, in small part because my dad was in the AF and deployed to Saudi Arabia. It was pretty much all the news for the short amount of time that actual hostilities were occurring.
The first moon landing
The assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.
That’s what I was thinking as well but I looked it up and the Challenger explosion was actually shortly before that.
1986 was a strong news year for sure. I was 9 years old at the time.
That’s what I was thinking as well but I looked it up and the Challenger explosion was actually shortly before that.
While I too remember the Challenger explosion, that memory is much less clear in my mind and I wouldn’t have been able to tell that it happened before.
Obama becoming President, I think! I had a very old Elementary School teacher, and while she certainly used some not-okay words to explain the event to us, I think she was quite supportive of it. I must have been 9 years old? So either my memory is bad or there just weren’t all that many interesting world events that I would have heard about when I was younger than that.
Honestly the earliest TV news memory I have is seeing heavy news coverage of John Lennon’s murder.
5 October 1974: Guildford pub bombings: IRA bombs exploded in two pubs frequented by off-duty British military personnel. Four soldiers and a civilian were killed and 44 injured.
I remember seeing a story about a bombing in Lisbon (Portugal) and being concerned because I had an Aunt in Lisbon (Ohio)
I think Wałęsa winning presidential elections. But I just kind of remember it happening and people talking about it, not actually seeing it on TV. It’s really hard to say what was the first live broadcast I remember. Fire in shipyard in Gdańsk happened in 1994, so when I was 10, but there was a song about it so maybe I remember it from the music video and not news from the day?
Elvis Presley’s death.
Great question! The very earliest story I can vaguely summon up at the moment was about a hurricane devastating the city of La Paz in Baja California Sur, from Mexican news on television. To pin down any details, I had to look it up, and came up with Hurricane Liza in 1976.
There was an image that got seared into my brain at the time, but it was probably my very young mind playing tricks on me, watching this report on one of those old, old, OLD small and blurry black-and-white televisions: the image of a dead baby lying face down among the rubble.
Berlin wall for sure. Earlier major events like Tchernobyl, famine in Ethiopia or the death of Coluche (iconic French comedian, pretty big thing in France), I mostly remember my parents reaction and discussions at home.
genuinely? everything has been so saturated with “major news” that i do not remember a single one.
if urgency becomes the norm, nothing is urgent anymore
Just realized what the second question in the topic is asking. I believe Walter Cronkite is reporting the assassination of JFK.
The Collapse. All the news agencies were calling it the “Resentment” for some reason. They were arguing about if some of the lower order dimensions would survive or not when all the aerovets went dark.
I looked out to see it approaching our crecheworld.
Space collapsing in fifteen dimensions is terrifyingly beautiful in its own way.
Reagan being shot
Internationally
Clearly, like vividly? OKC bombing. Think was 10.
I vaguely remember desert storm missle strike clips. I remember staying up to watch the ball drop in 91. But anything else on tv in the early 90s that didn’t involve mutant turtles, power rangers, Italian plumbers, or mortal kombat is a blank.
I don’t remember the news, honestly. The biggest “news” I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.
Margaret Thatcher getting rid of milk snacks in schools. I grew up in a mining town, so from a very young age, I was acutely aware of how much everyone hated Thatcher. However, I just thought that people really liked milk, and that’s why they hated “Margaret Thatcher the milk snatched”. I don’t like the taste of milk on its own, and I can remember being 3 or 4 years old and bemused by the intensity of feelings towards her — I guessed that people must really like milk
Desert storm has ended announcement on the radio in a garage in a car. I said what’s desert storm and I don’t think it was explained and life went on
OJ
Oh I remember OJ…but I said OKC bombing because most of what I remember from OJ, happening live, was towards the end of the trial. I didn’t watch it religiously and I remember being upset about it always being on.
OKC was in the middle of OJ, but it was one day, so it’s a bit easier to isolate in my memory.
2004 Tsunami in Thailand
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Prob Rodney King. I was just old enough to know what was going on.