Mine is the famine in Ethopia. I was six when it was first in the news. What's yours?

Munich Olympic hostage/killings, I also was 6

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?

Moonlanding – I was 6 at the time too.

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

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.

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 age

Australia winning the America's Cup in 1983… strangely enough I was 6 as well… is there something in that?

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!

Iranian Embassy Siege – also six!

i think the raising of the mary rose, i would have been 8?

Elvis dying.

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.

Thatcher f*cking us over.

zeebrugge ferry disaster we were due to travel out on ferry to germany 3 weeks later i was 5.

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.

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.

+1 for the famine.

+ 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.

Moon landings.
Same as Teggs Horatio Stegosaur! (who??) 8)

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.

Elvis dying

What!! Elvis is dead??

JFK assasination for me. I'd be 7.

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.
There must be earlier ones though but it all kind of blurs together.

Falklands war I think.

+1 for Iranian Embassy seige.

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.

The Aberfan disaster.
The schoolchildren were kids my age. It touched me deeply and still does if I think about it.

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

Beckham leaving Man Utd.

A moon landing. One of the later ones. Shame they're now in the realm of legends and fairy tales.

Churchill's funeral, would have been 4 at the time.

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.

september the 11th, I was 7 years and 1 day old at the time….

september the 11th, I was 7 years and 1 day old at the time….

Here you go lad 😉

Summer of 1976 being warm and its all the news seemed to go on about.

I was 7.

The wheel being invented. Well, thats how old I feel today.

Probably the one that sticks in my mind is the Iranian embassy siege.

Churchill's funeral, would have been 4 at the time.

Spooky. That was my first memory and I was also 4. But I don't remember England winning the world cup a year and a bit later.

Iraq war no.1 maybe?

+1 for Falklands and the Iranian Embassy siege. I was 4 at the time.

Possibly Churchill's funeral, or Kennedy's assassination. Those two are the only major ones that I remember, anyways.