Mine is the famine in Ethopia. I was six when it was first in the news. What's yours?
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What's your earliest 'news' memory?
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Munich Olympic hostage/killings, I also was 6
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i'm sure i remember watching a space shuttle launch on tv at school, was a big deal..primary school, maybe it was the first one?
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Moonlanding - I was 6 at the time too.
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Moon landing for me to...
was at primary school at the time and there was a BIG assembly in the main hall so we could all watch TV together, can't recall if it was recorded or live .... far too long ago
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JFK assassination, I was 7 at the time.
I was at school, but have been known to tell conspiracy theorists that I was on a grassy knoll in Dallas.
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First Lunar landing, dad got me out of bed in the middle of the night to watch it.
No regrets, still remember it all now despite my agePosted 3 years ago # -
Australia winning the America's Cup in 1983... strangely enough I was 6 as well... is there something in that?
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The Falklands War - I was 5 and thought it was of the coast of Scotland, tell you I was suprised when my grandad showed me on a map where is actually is!
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Iranian Embassy Siege - also six!
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i think the raising of the mary rose, i would have been 8?
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Elvis dying.
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Berlin Wall and World Cup of the same year or more to the point the theme tune.
I like it when people pull down things far stronger than they are, in this case the wall. I found it frustrating when the Iraqi people were trying to pull down saddams statue and in we waded with our tank.
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Thatcher f*cking us over.
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zeebrugge ferry disaster we were due to travel out on ferry to germany 3 weeks later i was 5.
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The first news story I remember was the IRA killing of Shadow N.I. secretary Airey Neave with a car bomb. It was a lovely blue Vauxhall Cavalier they wrecked. I was 10 and into cars. Edit - it was 1979.
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Death of the pope (Paul VI - I had to look it up just now) in August 1978. Don't know why as we're not Catholics.
It was on TV and I was a morbid 9 year old.
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+1 for the famine.
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+ 1 for the Falklands War -- must have been towards the end though because in my head we were in a caravan on a farm in Cornwall. I'd have been five.
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Moon landings.
Same as Teggs Horatio Stegosaur! (who??)
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Winter of discontent and the start of the Thatcher era. I only remember because the lights kept going out so we toasted marshmallows on the gas fire.
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Elvis dying
What!! Elvis is dead??
JFK assasination for me. I'd be 7.
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The one that sticks clearest in my memory is the Challenger disaster live on John Craven's Newsround. That was early 1986 so I was 8.
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Falklands war I think.
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+1 for Iranian Embassy seige.
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Elvis dying here too. I was walking home from primary school when a lady came out of her house in floods of tears to tell me that he'd died. I didn't have a clue what she was on about. When was that 77' or 78? So I would've been 7 or 8 then.
B.
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The Aberfan disaster.
The schoolchildren were kids my age. It touched me deeply and still does if I think about it.Posted 3 years ago # -
Iranian Embassy / Falklands....We have an exhibition at work about major world events at the moment and I was amazed that how many people I work with would put the first Gulf War down...damn young uns!
SSP
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Beckham leaving Man Utd.
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A moon landing. One of the later ones. Shame they're now in the realm of legends and fairy tales.
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Churchill's funeral, would have been 4 at the time.
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Raising of the Mary Rose - I remember school assembly being interrupted so we could watch it
I also remember seeing empty shelves in the local shop during the winter of discontent.
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september the 11th, I was 7 years and 1 day old at the time....
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september the 11th, I was 7 years and 1 day old at the time....
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Summer of 1976 being warm and its all the news seemed to go on about.
I was 7.
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