News stories you remember as a child
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The two that stick in my mind are the deaths of Princess Diana and Jill Dando.
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I was around the same age as those two (still am I suppose) and it freaked me out. Not in a heartless way, but it was more "these guys are my age and they're all over the papers and they've messed up their whole lives" than what they actually did, which I probably didn't fully understand. It was imagining being in their position
Stephen Lawrence
Rwanda genocide
John major resigning
Fred and rose west
ETA the Yorkshire Ripper, Elvis dying.
the devaluation of the pound
the 3 apollo astronauts dying in training accident
The Yorkshire Ripper.
Iran/Iraq conflict.
Berlin Wall coming down.
Piper Alpha.
Lockerbie bombing (I'm not far from Lockerbie).
The soldiers dragged from the car and murdered in N Ireland.
Suzy Lamplugh's disappearance and the search for "Mr Kipper".
Vicky Hamilton too, we were of a similar age.
The Moon Landing
Pop Stars in drug/orgy scandals
The first story I read about child abuse: A boy called Stephen who had literally been left in his cot to starve to death.
Patty Hearst kidnap
Lesley Whittle/Black Panther
Lord Mountbatten being blown up
The 'Yorkshire Ripper' tape
A boy my age at the time (9 or 10) going missing from home, and being found dead somewhere in the country after several days, apparently through natural causes not homicide, the boy having run away by himself
Zebrugge
Tiananmen Square Disaster
Chernobyl
I remember a lot more of the 90's as I was 10+ but the above were my first experiences of news.
These ^^^, so we must be of a similar era, Venus. I lived in the heart of Ripper territory and remember being neurotic about my mum going out in the dark.
I remember Thatcher getting in (I was 9) and thinking it was great that we had our first female PM, although I grew to detest her.
The Miners' Strike
The Falklands War
Nuclear tensions between the USSR and US during the Cold War and the various posturings which made the headlines ('Our bomb's bigger than yours and we've got more of them'- sort of thing.)
Assassination attempts on Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan.
Faking of the Hitler Diaries.
For some reasons, deaths of various comedians and comedy actors/ actresses stuck in my mind, too (i.e. Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, etc...). Many of them seemed to go 'too soon'/ before their time.
ETA...just seen mildredhubble's post, above, which has brought a few more poignant ones to mind!
You Must be the same age as me, 26?
When I was tiny, we lived in the middle east and every British person listened to the Royal Wedding on the World Service. I remember my mum cutting out a picture of Charles and Di from a newspaper and sellotaping it to the door!
Yeah, the really cheerful ones.
Oh blimey...how could I have forgotten the two Royal Weddings. Little did we know of the catastrophe brewing, there. It all seemed sooooo different, back then. Diana and Fergie certainly shook up the House of Windsor!
Yes, we are of a similar age, I remember all that you've mentioned. The Cold War especially as I spent my early teenage years in a state of perpetual terror. I was born in 1972. I remember my mum standing by the radio (the 'wireless'!) in tears on hearing that Elvis had died. It was just before my 5th birthday. We were also in Ripper territory, so it was huge news.