FabSwingers.com forum: Major news story

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

What is the first major news story/event that you remember in your lifetime and what were you doing ?

Elvis death, lennon assasination, 9/11, princess diana death,

Or it could be happy, man on the moon etc

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By *olarbear73Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Yeah it was Elvis’ death or more specifically watching his funeral

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Falklands war from Newsround then live aid then challenger exploding

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By *olarbear73Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Yeah it was Elvis’ death or more specifically watching his funeral "

Forgot to add I was probably playing with my toys - I was 4.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Lockerbie

Falklands

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Charles and Diana wedding

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

The Falklands war, I would have been 5.

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

I remember coming in from a night out clubbing and hearing about Diana.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11 , Saddam being found. I remember those clearly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When Diana died. I remember we were on holiday, last day just about to leave.

I will always remember coming home from school aswell to the 911 images on the news

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

I'd like to say I was too young to remember but it was the death of Elvis

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Sinking of QE1

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Also the Zebrugga ferry disaster. There were some kids from our "enemy" school on it.

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

The Omagh bombing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Lennon

Hindley and Brady being taken back to the Moors

Chernobyl

Curt Kobain

Charles and Diana

Diana's death

Twin Towers

Sure there is more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Challenger shuttle disaster and Hillsborough

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Little Jamie Bulger

Fred and Rose West

Madeleine

April Jones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Challenger for me. Watching live as a boy was awful.

After that was Lockerbie. Was living 20miles away from there at the time.

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

Probally Lennon getting shot..remember hearing it in the radio getting ready for school.

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By *aypurce70Man
over a year ago

Liverpool

Falklands!!..10yrs old..

Always reckon that made me join the Navy years later...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lockerbie"

My childhood home had a starring role in that one

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By *anae21Woman
over a year ago

Nearer than you think

Louise Brown, the first test tube baby... my mind was blown and, for the first time I can remember, my dad couldn't answer all the questions I had. I was 9.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I was a kid, remember the death of elvis being announced.

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By *.L.0460.Woman
over a year ago

Bognor Regis

The first one that truly sticks in my mind is the Dunblane massacre. I was home sick from school. It's the first news story that made me cry

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Who can ever forget Lord Mountbatten and entourage and 18 soldiers murdered by the Provisional IRA on the same day.

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Can recall

Churchill's funeral

Aberfan

Landing on the moon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The first one that truly sticks in my mind is the Dunblane massacre. I was home sick from school. It's the first news story that made me cry"

I travel to Dundee a lot and pass the signs to Dunblane, I always say a little prayer for them as I pass through

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

JFK assassination..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Yeah it was Elvis’ death or more specifically watching his funeral

Forgot to add I was probably playing with my toys - I was 4."

This for me too. I just remember all the cars and the sad faces. I too was only 4

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can remember Chirchill's funeral as well

What does stick in my mind very vividly though is the grounding and then the break up of the Torrey Canyon in 1967. It was and still is the worst environmental disaster to the UK's shoreline. I'll never forget the 100's of thousand's of seabirds just drowning in oil.

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

Thatcher becoming the leader of the Tory party........

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The dunblane massacre, I was in primary school and remember them putting coded locks on the doors and not feeling very safe in school, horrible feeling.

Or Princess Diana's death.

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Lanson

Actually - the queen's silver jubilee is probably the earliest major event I recall x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Falklands!!..10yrs old..

Always reckon that made me join the Navy years later..."

Ha ha. The day I joined Dartmouth, we were told..we are now at war!.....fuck. We were never going of course but we nearly got sent to Ascension to do menial tasks. A friend who was doing his sea time when it started went with the ship and spent his time up a mast with an SLR and instructions to shoot at anything that came near and wasn't the ship's helicopter.

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By *olden RatioWoman
over a year ago

Buckinghamshire

The Zebrugge ferry sinking... it's left me very nervous on boats

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

The day Elvis died was the day I did my shoelaces for the first time by myself. I’m not sure which was bigger news in our house.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hillsborough as it happened on my 6th birthday.

I remember seeing it on the news and saying to my mum "look at those naughty people on the pitch"

She came over and I will never forget the look on her face as she said "I don't think they are being naughty, something horrible is happening".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

9/11 sticks in the memory always, one of those moments where the world stood still

More recently the first major news updates on Covid when the reality of the situation and seriousness was made clear , I know people are sick of hearing about it now, but the first headlines were scary and shocking

On a positive note 2015, when Ireland

voted to legalise same sex marriage , and become first country in the world to do so by popular vote

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

First female Prime Minister in Britain.

That’s the first one that stuck with me as being truly impactful.

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