FabSwingers.com forum: What was the first major news story you remember as a child

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Me England winning the world Cup in 66

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By *iltopbearMan
over a year ago

Norfolk

I can remember strikes and blackouts in the seventies, SAS Iranian Embassy raid and the Falklands.

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

I remember the minors strikes and IRA bombings... Callaghan being PM and Carter US President I may have even been in the US still when he was elected... Possibly,but remember them both being on the news here

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By *sBlueWoman
over a year ago

Up North

The Ripper story

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By *iltopbearMan
over a year ago

Norfolk

"The Ripper story"

How did I forget that! It was ALL OVER the news!

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

Who Shot Mr Burns lol

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"I remember the minors strikes and IRA bombings... Callaghan being PM and Carter US President I may have even been in the US still when he was elected... Possibly,but remember them both being on the news here"

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

Death of elvis.. Aug '77..i was on the tree stump next to our house on the family base

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

Jamie bulger

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

The sinking of the QE1 and my mum being very upset by the assassination of three Scottish soldiers in NI.

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

Mine was the Maria Cromwell story x

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas

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By *andsome HandMan
over a year ago

roundabout

"Jamie bulger "

I think this is the first I remember too.

The one that sticks in my mind is the Omagh bombing but I was twelve when that happened

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By *heNYCSausageMan
over a year ago

Everton

I vaguely remember the Iranian embassy story but the oldest and most vivid news story that I remember is the Bradford stadium fire.

Unless you count a Liverpool Echo news article that called me a computer whizz kid

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By *izzmasterzeroMan
over a year ago

Aberdeen

I think Kurt Cobain, I knew people could die, I knew people could kill other people, but killing yourself was something I'd never imagined before this

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By *bostCouple
over a year ago

glasgow

The Piper Alpha Disaster, or Hillsborough. Not sure which was first.

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

Iranian embassy and the Falklands. Plus the royal wedding

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

The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…

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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago

Deepest darkest Peru

The Yorkshire Ripper case and the IRA

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

Weird we mostly recall the bad stuff!

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

Queen Victoria's coronation.

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

Probably Jamie Bulger. I remember watching it with my mum. He was the same age as my little brother which seemed to make it that bit more heartbreaking.

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

"Jamie bulger "

Unfortunately, for myself too

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

"Weird we mostly recall the bad stuff! "

Good stuff rarely makes the news.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Winston Churchill dieing x

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By *iBBWLondonWoman
over a year ago

London

The shroud of Turin. Our headmaster did a whole assembly about it.

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Moon landing in 1969

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By *ld StrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Telford

Elvis dying for me

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

Aberfan. I can still picture in my mind the newspaper poster outside the local newsagent, and the collection fund box.

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By *exyfuncouple-40Couple
over a year ago

Bloxham

John Lennon being shot

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

Potentially lady D’s death but it’s not very clear and definitely 9/11 more clear x I still remember where I was when I heard the news

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By *dsmithMan
over a year ago

Loudwater

1987. The Big Freeze and the government’s AIDS/HIV campaign (those adverts scared the shit out of 7 year old me).

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

The Toxteth riots of 1981 I remember happening, but not from the news. I remember standing on the shore and watching a couple of fires burn over in the distance in Liverpool one roasting hot night. We'd seen riots on the news but that was in London and felt very remote. Watching it happen somewhere I knew felt far more immediate.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Margaret Thatcher first elected woman prime minister

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I remember Elvis dying. We were on a Spanish campsite and my brother insisted my mum made him a black armband. He wore it in the sea with his trunks.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

Ealing Rail Crash, 1973.

I remember it well, because I was only 5 and it was time for bed, but I wanted to watch the news.

My parents basically said, if you want to be a big boy and stay up a little later you can, but you must watch the news and learn about the world.

Thus began my love affair from a very early age with Panorama, News At Ten, and other current affairs programs.

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

Princess Diana. I think I was about 4 or 5 but I remember my mum being quite upset over it.

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

"Princess Diana. I think I was about 4 or 5 but I remember my mum being quite upset over it."

24 years ago - today!

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By *aughtynottsCouple
over a year ago

Outside Nottingham

My mum waking me up crying that Diana had been killed.

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

9/11

Diana's death

Invasion of Iraq

D.N.A Mapping

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

First Gulf War.

The first I understood rather than just remember was the announcement that the 2000 Olympics would be held in Sydney.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Pan am flight 103 Lockerbie, as lost family members which I never got the chance to meet.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

The death of Lord Mountbatten, along with some of his family, 1979, not long back from Germany where I’d been shielded from main news most of my childhood.

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

Beatles in America mum was avid fan used to sit outside in pram old silver cross hearing all Beatles music

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

"Pan am flight 103 Lockerbie, as lost family members which I never got the chance to meet."

I'm very sorry to hear that. That's dreadfully sad

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

The fall of the Berlin wall

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By *liceinWonderland38Woman
over a year ago

Coventry

John Major winning the election

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

"Jamie bulger "

This one for me too and then although it came later 9/11 is something I’ll never forget when that broke.

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Pan am flight 103 Lockerbie, as lost family members which I never got the chance to meet."
sorry to here that x

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

When I thought to myself that my toys would start coming alive after watching Toy Story

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

SAS storming the Iranian embassy. I was 8 at the time and I'm pretty sure the snooker championship TV coverage was interrupted.

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By *onb21Woman
over a year ago

Cardiff

Chernobyl, 1986. I was 5.

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By *inell1Man
over a year ago

Ipswich

The death of John Lennon

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"Princess Diana. I think I was about 4 or 5 but I remember my mum being quite upset over it."

I'm old enough to b your grandmother! She is 28 today it was her 4th birthday on the day of Diana's death! X

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By *onmacMan
over a year ago

glasgow

Sinking of the torrey canyon

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

"When I thought to myself that my toys would start coming alive after watching Toy Story"

When was that a major news story then ???????

Elvis leaving the building!!

Tony

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

Probably the Clapham Junction rail crash. Think it stuck in my mind as it wasn't that far from us and I remember for years after whenever we got on a train past the spot they reduced speed as a mark of respect.

Probably around the same time was the Lockerbie disaster and Berlin Wall coming down

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

Hillsborough. It happened on my 6th birthday.

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By *ama bamaMan
over a year ago

dalkeith

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

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At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it.

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."
ay ay was drummed into us at school you won't see it in your lifetime with Scotland

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

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."

It is perfectly possible to have very vivid memories because I can tell you exactly where I was , what I was wearing and other details when I saw the the Hillsborough Disaster on my 6th birthday and I even remember shouting to my mum "look mum there is naughty people on the pitch, she came to look and said "they aren't naughty, something is very wrong"

Not everybody's brain works in the same way and some of us can recall very distant memories very vividly.

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By *ama bamaMan
over a year ago

dalkeith

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it.ay ay was drummed into us at school you won't see it in your lifetime with Scotland

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we only go for the Party.

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By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

we only go for the Party."

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."

My first remembered memory was earlier than the earliest news story I remember.

The news story I mentioned above was from when I was 7, and I still remember that night. Not because I was told about it later, but because the memory is still there in a fair amount of detail.

I don't think it's so unbelievable that someone would remember something major that happened when they were 6.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

At 6 you remember that no way it is a memory imprinted in you sub concious because all you have heard growing up is 66.... God the engerlanders dont have bang on about it."

I have very vivid memories from my first day at school quite detailed and an earlier one of my 3rd birthday not quite so vivid but nonetheless a memory x

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

Something to do with the IRA.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

Dave Hill cutting his hair, it was on our local news

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

"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…"

Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol

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By *ing_of_the_swingers400Man
over a year ago

edinbugh

Lockerbie bombing I think

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By *ockosaurusMan
over a year ago

Warwick

"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…

Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol

You're not old!

Some of these peeps are just really young.

We've got experience

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

Ooh good question busman...

I can remember being gathered in the school hall and they wheeled that big black and white TV in so we could watch the moon landing... Didn't really ever think of it as news at the time as I was more interested in what was up Nicolas skirt at the time... I have never thought of it again until now.

Vaguely remember the Mexico world Cup and Bobby moores arrest and Gordon Banks save

And of course the troubles in Northern Ireland.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…

Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol

You don’t look a day over 21

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Pan am flight 103 Lockerbie, as lost family members which I never got the chance to meet.sorry to here that x "

Thanks pal

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

"Me England winning the world Cup in 66

I don't remember it as I was born on that day but its probably why I detest football.

My memory doesn't go that far back.

Would say decimalisation for me.

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

When Elvis died

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By *awtin2411Man
over a year ago

coventry

My first one was the Berlin Wall coming down in '99. I was only 5 and knew it was a big deal at the time

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By *icknmix500Man
over a year ago

South Gloucestershire

The assassination of JFK

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

"My first one was the Berlin Wall coming down in '99. I was only 5 and knew it was a big deal at the time"

It was 89 but what's 10 years between friends.

I remember that vividly too.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

The rocket landing in the back garden in London sent by the IRA via a transit van. Like a scene from back to the future

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

Going to see the baby Jesus in a shed in Bethlehem. I am really that old!

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

7/7 bombings

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

The Piper Alpha disaster

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

"The Piper Alpha disaster

Iv just had to google that as never heard about it before.

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By *eardybobMan
over a year ago

the Goldilocks Zone

Challenger space shuttle disaster... can still remember very vividly hearing about it in the car on the way back from a mates house

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

"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…

Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol

You don’t look a day over 21

I wish lol

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

"The shock and awe of Iraq. I remember watching it and my mum on the phone to my Aunt talking about it, whilst watching it on sky news into the night…

Thanks T you’re making me feel old as fuck I’d already served 3 years on ops in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo lol

You're not old!

Some of these peeps are just really young.

We've got experience

I was only joking with T he’s plenty of life experience himself

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

I can't remember what news was like before Essex_Tom broke it to me on Fab

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

John Lennon being shot.

Challenger disaster

Iranian embassy

They are the three that spring to mind.

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

The Iran Iraq war. It started in 1980 and went on till 88. It was on the news every day, for years.

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

Falklands, Shuttle Disaster and the death of Jon-Erik Hexum.

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

The death of Elvis as my dad was a huge fan, that and the Brixton riots as they were just down the road from where we lived at the time

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

The one that always stuck in my mind was when the SAS were in the balcony of the Iranian embassy and you see John McAleese move just in time then boom.

Nothing had been seen on live TV like it before and as a boy it inspired me.

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By *inkyInkedBiWoman
over a year ago

James bulger. The killers were ten, as was I. Couldn’t believe what I was watching. Only up the road from me. Never forget it

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By *ookingfun82Man
over a year ago

Enniskillen

Vaguely the fall of the Berlin wall, definitely the First Iraq war.

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

Elvis dying

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

The hand of god

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By *ecrets4everCouple
over a year ago

Me too!

I remember crying when the news reporter said Elvis was dead.

His music was always playing in our house when I was little.

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

"Me too!

I remember crying when the news reporter said Elvis was dead.

His music was always playing in our house when I was little.

Newspaper front page him in the coffin

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By *aturegentdurhamMan
over a year ago

Stanley

Death of Elvis Presley.

And my mam and her friends cry every time it was mentioned.

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

The miners strike and how that witch thatcher and her thugs dealt with the men also I remember the challenger space shuttle disaster but the one that sticks most is the Hillsborough disaster I remember sat in my grandads watching it unfold and even as a ten year old knowing it was bad

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

Santa wasn’t real

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By *ean counterMan
over a year ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

Lord Mountbatten getting murdered. I couldnt get my head around it then and forty plus years later still don't. Crazy world we live in full of crazy people !

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

"Santa wasn’t real

Isn't he

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By *uv2kissMan
over a year ago

fenland

July 20th 1969

I was almost 15 had a paper round and was trying to put the Express through a letter box I had to refold and noticed the headline, American had landed on the moon

I can't say I remember much from tv news, although I did have an appt with a nice young lady for some ( paid fun) and she wasn't ready as she glued to the twin towers coming down

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

"Santa wasn’t real

Yes he is!

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

Sputnik then Kennedy getting shot

My mam was on the step outside Talking to my next door neighbour when it come on the tv

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By *hisCharManMan
over a year ago

South Manchester

Remember watching a moon landing live, although it must have been a later one in say 72

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By *hrobbermanMan
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

I remember being told about Abefan when I started primary school (it had happened the year earlier). There was a terrible fire at the Broomielaw (in Glasgow) and a lot of people died. My Dad knew a fireman who tackled the fire. Then I have a horrible memory from 1971 and instead of Dr Who on a Saturday at teatime.. watching TV as news of the Ibrox Disaster came through (I was seven years old).

Later that year some schoolkids from Edinburgh died in the Cairngorms and only one wee boy of one party lived... all the others had wrapped themselves around him to try to keep him warm. They all died.

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

Probably the Falklands war and the bombing of Port Stanley Airport

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

Challenger

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By *uck-RogersMan
over a year ago

Tarka trail

Cuban missile crisis. Please Sir, are we all going to die.

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By *r. JoystickMan
over a year ago

London

9/11 was probably the big one for me.

Showing my age a bit since I would have been only 7 years old at the time. It's the first vivid one I remember anyway.

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