FabSwingers.com forum: What's the earliest significant news story you can remember ?

By *hief Scout OP Man
22 weeks ago

Wild Border Country of Herts & Middx/West London !

I ask this as tomorrow is the 50th Anniversary of the Moorgate Tube crash, and over the last couple of afternoons there has been a superb play on Radio 4.

So, what's your earliest recollection of a big news story ? (I'm not thinking of an 'ongoing' situation, such as the I.R.A. in the 1970's, they seemed to be on the news practically every night - more of a "one off" event).

The "Moorgate" play was well worth a listen, was broadcast on Radio 4 at 2.15pm yesterday and today (45 mins each) if you want go find it on 'catch up'

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By *iFruityCoupleCouple
22 weeks ago

Watermouth

Ships sighted of Hastings

It feels like it some days

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By *es not the MessiahMan
22 weeks ago

3rd rock from the sun

December 21st 1988

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
22 weeks ago

East Sussex

Probably the Aberfan disaster. I was pretty well protected from the news until I was around 10

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By *midnight-Woman
22 weeks ago

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Death of Elvis - I was stood on a tree trunk next to a corn field. I have a vague recollection that something was on fire.

Aug 1977.

I was 7 years old

I wonder how I knew 🤔🤔🤔 radio maybe?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
22 weeks ago

East Sussex

"Ships sighted of Hastings

It feels like it some days"

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Death of Elvis, I remember my mum crying all day….. one of my first memories

I was 2 years old

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By *viatrixWoman
22 weeks ago

Redhill

Belfast troubles… the Malvinas/Falklands war…the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.

But the first major event I remember was the closing ceremony of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Loved the mascot! ☺️ 🐻

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
22 weeks ago

little house on the praire

The black panther

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By *eltCuteMightDeleteWoman
22 weeks ago

Reading

Probably the fall of the Berlin Wall

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By *ynamicnatureMan
22 weeks ago

Doncaster

I remember staying up late to watch the challenger space shuttle take that school teacher into space, it didn't end well,☹️

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By *viatrixWoman
22 weeks ago

Redhill

"Belfast troubles… the Malvinas/Falklands war…the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.

But the first major event I remember was the closing ceremony of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Loved the mascot! ☺️ 🐻 "

I tell bollocks/a lie.

Watching Nadia Comaneci in Montreal 1976 brought a tear to my eye. The musiiiiiic OMG 🥹🥹🥹🥹 all the floor performance was magic!

I was 3 years old.

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By *estructionDollyWoman
22 weeks ago

The Deep Dark Woods

Manchester IRA bombing around a similar time to Princess Diana dying.

There were probably earlier ones but those two stand out. My step dad was working in the city centre when the IRA bomb happened so everyone was talking about it.

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By *ilva69Man
22 weeks ago

stockport

I remember my mum and dad huddled around the TV for the first moon landing in 1969 when I was a wee toddler

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By *acchus LyaeosMan
22 weeks ago

London

I feel so young saying this but the death of Saddam Hussein

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By *abluesbabyMan
22 weeks ago

Gibraltar/Cheshire/London

The Queen's Silver Jubilee and the death of Elvis in 1977

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By *abluesbabyMan
22 weeks ago

Gibraltar/Cheshire/London

"Manchester IRA bombing around a similar time to Princess Diana dying.

There were probably earlier ones but those two stand out. My step dad was working in the city centre when the IRA bomb happened so everyone was talking about it. "

I was in the Manchester bomb attack in 1992. Myself and a couple of mates were very slightly injured by shrapnel.

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By *a LunaWoman
22 weeks ago

o o OO o o

Diana Dors passing away.

I always thought she was such a beauty, and of course she was in the Adam & The Ants music video so recognised her from that.

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By *B..Woman
22 weeks ago

Wiltshire

"The Queen's Silver Jubilee and the death of Elvis in 1977"

These stand out for me as well, street party’s and Elvis songs playing all the time, a few years later the Iranian Embassy siege

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By *arriLadMan
22 weeks ago

North West

Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off

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By *a LunaWoman
22 weeks ago

o o OO o o

"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off "

This makes me feel old!

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By *rthur30Man
22 weeks ago

Warrington

The assassination of JFK

Aberfan disaster

Moors muderers

Moon landing

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By *ookie46Woman
22 weeks ago

Deepest darkest Peru

"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off "

I went into labour with my second child that day

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By *ookie46Woman
22 weeks ago

Deepest darkest Peru

I remember the Yorkshire ripper search being on the news

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By *arriLadMan
22 weeks ago

North West

"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off

This makes me feel old!

Dont think this will make it better...

I was 9 when the twin towers went down and ran outside to see if I could see any smoke (9 year old me didn't know it was in America 🤦‍♂️)

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By *arriedminxCouple
22 weeks ago

here

Late 1980’s Iran-Iraq war. I’d have been maybe 5/6 was on BBC news. I can still remember thinking my dad might have to go to Baghdad….bonuses why!

Minx

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By *arriedminxCouple
22 weeks ago

here

"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off

This makes me feel old!

Dont think this will make it better...

I was 9 when the twin towers went down and ran outside to see if I could see any smoke (9 year old me didn't know it was in America 🤦‍♂️)"

lol this whole thread make us feel old

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By *bitofaslutWoman
22 weeks ago

Cannock

Newsflash of the Birmingham pub bombings. Nov 74. I was 15 months old.

I always had this vivid image in my head of a local reporter and a destroyed building. Never had anything to connect it to until I was at my parents house, they had the news on and they did a segment about the 20th anniversary - and there was my memory on the screen as they replayed the news story from either that night or the day after.

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By *old MemberMan
22 weeks ago

Worcester

The moon landings

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By *erseykevMan
22 weeks ago

St Helier

Marilyn Monroe being found dead

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By *hief Scout OP Man
22 weeks ago

Wild Border Country of Herts & Middx/West London !

"this whole thread make us feel old

Good thread though.

Interesting to tap into everyone's memories.

Keep 'em coming.

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By *luebell888Woman
22 weeks ago

Glasgowish

The Munich Olympics attack. I was only about 7 but remember seeing it on the news and being scared.

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Them horrible fucking inhumane bastards killing that poor youngin James bulger I can still remember seeing the photo of him being led off holding one of their hands like it was yesterday

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By *am101aMan
22 weeks ago

swad

first moon landing. parents kept me up to watch it!

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By *antricSeeker60Man
22 weeks ago

Durham

Being ripped off in the sweet shop by Decimalisation, February 1971.

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By *ealitybitesMan
22 weeks ago

Belfast

Woodstock

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By *uxurycollectionCouple
22 weeks ago

Port Talbot

Two that really stuck in my mind were the continuous news reels of the 84 Miners Strike and the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 86.

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By *rincipessaWoman
22 weeks ago

your wildest dreams,

Queens jubilee

Death of elvis

Birth of Louise Brown (1st test tube baby)

Falklands

Margaret thatcher elected

Space shuttle challengers maiden flight

I was informed by John craven at that age

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By *artorialMan
22 weeks ago

weymouth

Apollo 8, first trip round the moon ( not landing). Black and white telly with Patrick Moore commentary, analysis etc. 1968 I'd be 9yr old

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By *rincipessaWoman
22 weeks ago

your wildest dreams,

"I remember the Yorkshire ripper search being on the news "

Oh this was big news. We weren’t allowed out on a night to play because of him. I saw this on the lunchtime news befor crown court. I must have been off school

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By *ai Hard 2 - Dai HarderMan
22 weeks ago

Manchester / Cardiff

"Queens jubilee

Death of elvis

Birth of Louise Brown (1st test tube baby)

Falklands

Margaret thatcher elected

Space shuttle challengers maiden flight

I was informed by John craven at that age "

John Craven!!! There's a memory!

Falklands for me too.

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

1966 World Cup

Gordon Banks,Bobby and Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore etc.

Next significant event.

Munich Disaster 1968.

I had just turn 10 years old.

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By *estructionDollyWoman
22 weeks ago

The Deep Dark Woods

"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off

This makes me feel old!

Dont think this will make it better...

I was 9 when the twin towers went down and ran outside to see if I could see any smoke (9 year old me didn't know it was in America 🤦‍♂️)"

I was 12 I got home from school and my mum had the news on. I thought she was watching a disaster movie at first, was surreal.

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By *oeBeansMan
22 weeks ago

Derby

Sir Alex kicking a boot at David Beckham

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
22 weeks ago

rochdale

End of the Vietnam War.

I was 8, but you know what?

I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say.

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By *irtydevil666Man
22 weeks ago

bristol

The death of John Lennon

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By *arkus1812Man
22 weeks ago

Lifes Departure Lounge

End of WW2 in 1945.

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By *zeroMan
22 weeks ago

Glasgow

Eric Cantona kicking a fan

Mad Cow disease

Princess Diana's death. That one was the most vivid. I remember watching cartoons on and a breaking news banner appeared on screen telling you to change the channel

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
22 weeks ago

Sussex

"End of the Vietnam War.

I was 8, but you know what?

I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say."

My memory of that was seeing grainy images of loads of people, some carrying luggage, trying to clamber onto helicopters hovering at the top of a building. It wasn't until quite a bit later I learned that was the fall of Saigon.

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Apollo 11 moon landing. My parents got me up to watch the live broadcast. I was 5.

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By *usty kayWoman
22 weeks ago

Burnham on Sea

Freddy Mercury's death

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By *ornyguyMan
22 weeks ago

Hillsborough, NI

"December 21st 1988"

Lockerbie. I'm struggling to remember many big news events before this one. I remember us driving up the motorway by it not long after.

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By *2000ManMan
22 weeks ago

Worthing

Carter v Ford election.

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By *arrenhertsmanMan
22 weeks ago

Hatfield

Elvis dying and queens silver jubilee spring to mind ..1977

But 1974 when an ira bomb went off near where i lived is main one

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Sid Vicious Murder charge

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By *lack FridayMan
22 weeks ago

Galway

A few

1: Aberfan disaster - that is when I started to read the daily newspaper and still do even to this day. Some really sad graphic black and white photos of the devastation.

2: Shooting of JFK Nov 63. I had seen him and Jackie the previous June in their cavalcade, when he visited Ireland.

3: Moon landing July 69. Our dog gave birth the same day so I named the pups - Apollo, Buzz, Michael and Neil.

4: The end of the Berlin Wall. I was living in Holland at the time and was booked to go in two weeks time to do the tour - Checkpoint Charlie etc. So I went to a remote part of West Donegal instead.

Whilst at a filling station an East Berlin Trabant car pulled in for fuel.

Once the owners - a young couple - realised that they really were free to travel they headed west.

They kept going until the were as far west as they could get and see the Atlantic Ocean. I spent quite a while talking to them - even to experience some of the buzz they had, was simply amazing.

We don't realise how important freedom is

5: First video footage from the wreck of the Titanic.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
22 weeks ago

Holibobs

When Diana died

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By *arrenhertsmanMan
22 weeks ago

Hatfield

"Death of Elvis - I was stood on a tree trunk next to a corn field. I have a vague recollection that something was on fire.

Aug 1977.

I was 7 years old

I wonder how I knew 🤔🤔🤔 radio maybe? "

Maybe the reaction of adults .. people openly cried in steer where I was … I remember that

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
22 weeks ago

Reading

Sinking of the titanic

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By *exxyyDy11Man
22 weeks ago

North West

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By *arrenhertsmanMan
22 weeks ago

Hatfield

"Sinking of the titanic

I’d like to go down on you ..

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By *exxyyDy11Man
22 weeks ago

North West

The US and UK bombing Saddam's Iraq because he refused to let UN inspectors into the country. I remember that.

The one I was completely clued to the TV for however was 9/11. I was off sick from school that day.

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By *exxyyDy11Man
22 weeks ago

North West

"The Munich Olympics attack. I was only about 7 but remember seeing it on the news and being scared."

You ever seen the movie Munich?

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
22 weeks ago

rochdale

"End of the Vietnam War.

I was 8, but you know what?

I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say.

The helicopters taking off from the top of the Embassy.

I'm still not sure if I remember it live or not.

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By *ife NinjaMan
22 weeks ago

Dunfermline

Flixborough disaster 🤓

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By *exxyyDy11Man
22 weeks ago

North West

"End of the Vietnam War.

I was 8, but you know what?

I recall watching the TV with my dad, but whether it was live, or a repeat some yrs later I couldn't in all honesty say."

I've never been to Vietnam but I have been to Cambodia. Seen the impact of the Khmer Rouge Regime, same time they took power was when the Vietnam War ended. Brutal and horrific. What a brutal decade it was for South East Asia.

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By *hisCharmingMan
22 weeks ago

South Manchester

I can remember watching a moon landing, must have been the last one at the end of 72

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By *VANDYMan
22 weeks ago

Dawlish

Elvis for me too but I didn’t know who he was, probably because I was only 9 and he’d pretty much had it by then. Anyway I was on a school camp and I thought all the teachers were talking about Elton John. 🤷‍♂️

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By *orester891Man
22 weeks ago

JFK assassination

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By *ickshawedCouple
22 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

I probably should remember earlier events, but the one that comes to mind is Dunblane. Then later that year it was the machete attack at St Luke's School. My mum was afraid to let me walk to school alone the next day until they caught him.

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By *ermite12ukMan
22 weeks ago

Solihull and Romford

The wedding of Diana & Charles.

The shooting of Yvonne Fletcher, outside the Libyan Embassy.

Storming of Iranian Embassy.

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By *ee642024Woman
22 weeks ago

Crook

"Probably the Aberfan disaster. I was pretty well protected from the news until I was around 10 "
i was 6 and my class got told about this at school by our teacher.we were all frightned and cried

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By *GoodGirlGemxCouple
22 weeks ago

Glasgow

The start of the war in Iraq and James Bulger murder

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By *ee642024Woman
22 weeks ago

Crook

i remember my nanna telling my mam about JFK being assassinated in 1963. I didnt understand at the time what she meant as i was just 3

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Famine in Ethiopia

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By *ympho6969Woman
22 weeks ago

glasgow

I remember Dunblane and 9/11 pretty vividly. Not sure if there were any before that, but those 2 stick out.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
22 weeks ago

Leeds

"Princess Diana dying, As a young pup i just wondered why my cartoons had been turned off

This makes me feel old!

Me too. I heard the news on the radio 5am as I was breastfeeding my second baby.

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By *yresMan
22 weeks ago

Midland town

Listening to my transitor radio under the blankets in bed, when there was a news flash, announcing that two Boeing 747's Jumbo jets had crashed into each other at tenerife airport, 77 I think!....

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
22 weeks ago

belfast

"Belfast troubles… the Malvinas/Falklands war…the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan.

But the first major event I remember was the closing ceremony of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games. Loved the mascot! ☺️ 🐻 "

Falklands. Not malvinas.

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
22 weeks ago

belfast

Either someone getting shot or bomb going off.

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By *underlandfellaMan
22 weeks ago

sunderland

King's Cross fire

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By *exySiren01Woman
22 weeks ago

RCT

I think my earliest would be Lockerbie

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By *iltsTSgirlTV/TS
22 weeks ago

Chichester

Thst oil rig fire in 80s. Pipe alpha I think it was called

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By *orace99Man
22 weeks ago

York

The Ammoco Cadiz oil spillage.

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By *aughty50sCouple
22 weeks ago

Yorkshire - but we travel a lot

The end of the Vietnam War being announced on telly. I ran into the other room to tell my parents.

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By *amantha_JadeWoman
22 weeks ago

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The death of Princess Diana

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By *alandNitaCouple
22 weeks ago

Scunthorpe

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By *alandNitaCouple
22 weeks ago

Scunthorpe

Queens Jubilee 1977 when I was 4, as we had a big street party.

Nita

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By *ildbillkidMan
22 weeks ago

where the road goes on forever

John Glenn circled the earth,1962, it was on my b- day

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By *ilkandvelvetWoman
22 weeks ago

Plymouth

The great storm 1987. Power failure, great big trees and their massive roots brought down. I was 6 and it was quite something at the time

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By *oubleswing2019Man
22 weeks ago

Colchester

I was 5 and watching the news about a war ending. I was really confused because I didn't think we were at war, though I was aware one had ended ages ago with the Germans and grandad fought in that. Then my parents explained it was an American War. But not in America. Which made me even more confused.

But they were good and explained everything slowly. 1973. End of Vietnam War.

I was lucky, as the deal was I was allowed to stay up past my bed time, IF and only IF, I sat quietly and watched the adult news. I was allowed to ask questions at the end.

It's probably why I'm such a news junkie and loved watching all the documentaries and current affairs, from a very early age.

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Elvis dying probably, I was 7 years old. My mum was crying and I asked her what was wrong and she said Elvis is dead.

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By *pankingNorfolkCouple
22 weeks ago

Norwich

Zeebrugge ferry disaster I remember watching on TV in shock at the news.

Do remember Charles and Diana wedding but only because of events at primary school.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
22 weeks ago

North West

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.

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By *lack FridayMan
22 weeks ago

Galway

"Thst oil rig fire in 80s. Pipe alpha I think it was called "

I used to work in the industry. Horrific accident and so many needless deaths.

Thankfully as a result emergency shut off valves were installed on sub sea pipelines.

The subsequent Lord Cullen report was an amazing read and a brilliant piece of investigative work - first time I ever read such a document. He pulled no punches. "Appalling negligence of the owners and operators" - I have never forgotten that sentence.

Some of the human family stories that surfaced after this accident make for very sad reading.

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By *acchus LyaeosMan
22 weeks ago

London

Anyone else only remember news events from the mid-00s onwards?

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By (user no longer on site)
22 weeks ago

Canary Wharf bombing would be my earliest memory of a news story I can still picture the windows blown out and the utter devastation. Most significant would be the World Trade Centre attack, I was just walking out of it when the first plane hit, obviously thought it was an accident and then seeing the second one hit just brought a terror I hope to never experience again.

I wish it was good news stories that came to mind first but unfortunately not th eway the mind works

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By *ools and the brainCouple
22 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

Jimmy Carter getting elected for the first time.

I feel old

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By *porty_and_NaughtyCouple
22 weeks ago

Swansea

Ben Johnson being caught cheating at the 88 Olympics - we were following the Olympics as a class project in junior school. I'm sure there must have been other things but that's the earliest I remember as meaning something to me.

I'm often surprised by how little I remember from my childhood compared to others. My memory seems to work better on things/information/numbers etc than experiences for some reason. Memories before teenage years are limited, even secondary school I remember stuff like being taught the mnemonic Two Old Angels Skipped Over Heaven Carrying A Harp for trigonometry (and what it means/how to use it) better than much else that happened that year. Possibly fancying my maths teacher may have something to do with it although I cannot recall her face, but can picture her black Mini car. I'm not sure my head is entirely normal.

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By *ooBulMan
22 weeks ago

SNottingham

Sex Pistols having a riot i9n one of the venues they were playing in...

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By *etro manMan
22 weeks ago

manchester

To think of the amount of times I was in this shop in Manchester and what happened is sad now a travelogue hotel the Woolworths fire Piccadilly garden

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By *ools and the brainCouple
22 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

"Jimmy Carter getting elected for the first time.

I feel old

To be honest most of my childhood memories regarding news either IRA bombing related or some form of strikes or riots related to strikes and/or unemployment

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By *egoMan
22 weeks ago

Preston

Gulf war 1 i think, a column of armoured vehicles drove past my house.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
22 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

"Gulf war 1 i think, a column of armoured vehicles drove past my house."

Fuck me they must have been well lost if they were in Preston

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By *urplevanmanMan
22 weeks ago

Salford

"Death of Elvis - I was stood on a tree trunk next to a corn field. I have a vague recollection that something was on fire.

Aug 1977.

I was 7 years old

I wonder how I knew 🤔🤔🤔 radio maybe? "

That was mine too… I recall seeing the newspaper sign/ banner? The sign in a stand with wire over the paper

It just said “Elvis Dead”

I do remember it was at a holiday camp in wales somewhere

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By *aughtystaffs60Couple
21 weeks ago

Staffordshire

Watching Neil Armstrong on the moon. I vaguely remember watching that blurry black and white image on our 405 line TV about 4 am in the morning.

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By *oublesixesMan
21 weeks ago

Corby

The herald of free enterprise

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By *arakiss12TV/TS
21 weeks ago

Bedfuck

Martin Luther King assassination closely followed by Robert Kennedy assassination.

I remember the moorgate crash my dad was on his way to work, travelling on the tube that day when it happened.

Ever since then I've always thought the tube was a death trap.

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By *inkShyWoman
21 weeks ago

near Windsor

Jamie Bulger

But later on, I wrote a report on Tracie Andrews after reading the paper, and mum got called in because I was a bit graphic 🤐

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By *lik and PaulCouple
21 weeks ago

cahoots

Russian tanks rolling into Czechoslovakia in 1968 and asking my dad if this was the next world war.

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By *alcolm XtraMan
21 weeks ago

Northfleet

I can remember England winning the '66 World Cup.

Can't remember if I had breakfast this morning!

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By *ad NannaWoman
21 weeks ago

East London

I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.

I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
21 weeks ago

little house on the praire

"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.

I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?"
That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress

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By *ad NannaWoman
21 weeks ago

East London

"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.

I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress"

That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
21 weeks ago

little house on the praire

"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.

I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress

That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her."
My dad bought me the book about it.Im sure I was only about 10

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By *angler 321Man
21 weeks ago

Hereford

My earliest memory is the Zeebrugge disaster, i can remember the ferry on its side on the news clear as day!

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By *ad NannaWoman
21 weeks ago

East London

"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.

I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress

That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her.My dad bought me the book about it.Im sure I was only about 10"

I didn't know there was a book.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
21 weeks ago

little house on the praire

"I can remember when they found the body of the girl in the sewer.

I can't recall her name at the moment but I think they called her killer the black panther?That's my first memory as well. Her name was Lesley Whittal(I think) and she was an heiress

That's her. It gave me nightmares for a long time. I remember feeling disgusted about a joke someone made up about her.My dad bought me the book about it.Im sure I was only about 10

I didn't know there was a book. "
Yes, I think it was just called the black panther. Funnily enough I can't remember his real name. This was 50 years ago

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
21 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

Apart from making me feel old, these threads always amuse me, those people who forget they have doctored the age on their profiles and then reminiscing about events in their childhood that took place years 4 or 5 years before they were born

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
21 weeks ago

little house on the praire

"Apart from making me feel old, these threads always amuse me, those people who forget they have doctored the age on their profiles and then reminiscing about events in their childhood that took place years 4 or 5 years before they were born

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This always makes me laugh

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By *coobyBoobyDooWoman
21 weeks ago

Markfield

I remember my mum and aunt discussing something about the common market vote with my aunt’s neighbour and Britain entered in 1973 when I was 3 years old so I guess something around that time.

Plus the three day week and electricity going off and using candles. That was about 1973-4 I believe.

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By *iscombobulated1523Couple
21 weeks ago

Worcestershire

Hillsborough disaster

And the fire at kings cross

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By *hief_Of_AlwaysMan
21 weeks ago

1313 Mockingbird Lane…

Poll Tax Riots

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
21 weeks ago

little house on the praire

Decimalization as we where the first year at school to be taught "new money"

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By *he Flat CapsCouple
21 weeks ago

Pontypool

I remember the silver jubilee in 77.

I remember the power cuts and the bread shortages in the winter of discontent.

I remember Pope John Paul II travelling in the popemobile.

I remember Liverpool FC winning something and an open top bus, but really, I was more taken by the police horses that went past the house.

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By *issolvedOrdersMan
21 weeks ago

Bristol

The bombing of the Grand Hotel Brighton in 84

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By *stwoCouple
21 weeks ago

anywhere

Aberfan

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By *haggydogMan
21 weeks ago

Brooklands/London

Jimmy Carter becoming USA's new president.

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By *issmorganWoman
21 weeks ago

Calderdale innit

Probably when Charles and Di got married and the street parties,aling with those coins we all got.

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By (user no longer on site)
21 weeks ago

Inroad colonisation of britain by the roman empire.

Read the news on a scroll.

- via carrier pidgeon.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
21 weeks ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics

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By (user no longer on site)
21 weeks ago

Death of Elvis Presley..if not for that wouldn't even remember living in a flat in that area..

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By *ettieAndIrvingMan
21 weeks ago

Derby

Silver Jubilee

Elvis dying

Iranian Embassy siege

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By *ornycougaWoman
21 weeks ago

WHEREVER I LAY MY HAT

Another one for Elvis's death. On holiday in Ullapool at the time.

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By (user no longer on site)
21 weeks ago

SAS raid on the Iranian embassy, then 30 years later got to meet one of the guys involved

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By *urry BlokeMan
21 weeks ago

I remember crying when Diana Dors died

I was just 14 - I think all the clues were there, even then, that I might grow up fancying blokes as well as women

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By *tephanjMan
21 weeks ago

Kettering

The shooting of JFK

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By *glyBettyTV/TS
21 weeks ago

Not in your area

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21 weeks ago

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By (user no longer on site)
21 weeks ago

"I remember crying when Diana Dors died

I was just 14 - I think all the clues were there, even then, that I might grow up fancying blokes as well as women

I recently saw a horror film with her in called 'children of the full moon' ..which I thought was pretty good.

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By *ittyNCremeCouple
21 weeks ago

Buckinghamshire

Either Chenobyl or Jill Dando’s murder as both happened on my birthday

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By (user no longer on site)
19 weeks ago

"1966 World Cup

Gordon Banks,Bobby and Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore etc.

Next significant event.

Munich Disaster 1968.

I had just turn 10 years old."
recap: Munich I was ten when I learnt about it. I was about a month old when it happened.

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By *oding2Man
19 weeks ago

marlow

Cuban missile crisis

Dam I'm old

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By *ripodius WillyusMan
19 weeks ago

nelson/colne border

Aberfan disaster in Wales I was sat with my mum, i cannot recall the year just remember i was very young. Anyone remember the year I am in my 60s now.

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By *ripodius WillyusMan
19 weeks ago

nelson/colne border

"Probably the Aberfan disaster. I was pretty well protected from the news until I was around 10 "

That was my earliest too.

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By *issilia AmoriWoman
19 weeks ago

St Albans/ North Welsh Borders

John Lennon's assassination, I was 6

Chernobyl

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By *assy LassieWoman
19 weeks ago

Lanarkshire

Assassination attempt of Pope or the Falklands war

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By *rdenites2Couple
19 weeks ago

Leicestershire

Aberfan disaster. Poor blighters.

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By *orse2017Man
19 weeks ago

Almeria

Ronan point block of flats, saw it on tv and I was taken there by my parents, why they took me there to see it I don't know, I was only about 4/5, I think.

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By *orny salesmanMan
19 weeks ago

Preston

Falklands war, l was 7 that's first thing l remember detail of

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By *obbieNWMan
19 weeks ago

Altrincham

Princess Grace's car crash. I was 4 and remember the news report on TV

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
19 weeks ago

Leeds

Lockerbie

The mr

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By *orcsmatMan
19 weeks ago

Kidderminster

I know I went to the queen's coronation party and watched it on the TV my dad bought with part of a pools win.

But it could be false memories from photos of the event. I was 4.

But I do remember a heated debate in school for the 1963 general election when Harold Wilson won as Labour leader.

I was the only one in class rooting for the Conservatives.

Later watching Winston Churchill s funeral on TV.

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By *arvey67Man
19 weeks ago

Grimsby

"I remember staying up late to watch the challenger space shuttle take that school teacher into space, it didn't end well,☹️"
Except it was just after 2pm

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
19 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

"Another one for Elvis's death. On holiday in Ullapool at the time. "

I thought he died at home in Memphis 😂🤣

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By *ete.RachaelTV/TS
19 weeks ago

Chesterfield

The Aberfan disaster I'd be nearly 8 and it was the first thing " not local " I remember .

Watching the miners with their lamps digging for the kids , lived in a mining area and my first job was in the pit .

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
19 weeks ago

Leeds

Dianna

Mrs

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
19 weeks ago

The bottom of the River Ankh

Assassination of John Lennon

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By (user no longer on site)
19 weeks ago

The Torrie Canyon disaster the oil spillage was a disaster

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