Hillsborough disaster (remember seeing that on tv).
Gulf war (My brother collected loads of newspaper cut outs and made a scrap book all about it, I found that rather frightening to be honest).
James Bulger (that really stuck out in my mind as I was the same age as the killers, and just couldn't believe two kids my age could do that to a baby! ..that horrified me! ..still does.
Manchester bombing..., I actually heard that from my house and remember my dad saying "that was a bomb!" (My dad is an ex soldier) ... That was a scary day being so young at that time.
1) The Yorkshire Ripper - specifically when he killed a lady in hospital grounds of the hospital my mother worked in.
2) The SAS storming the Iranian embassy. I remember it being a Sunday night & I had to go to school the next day. A Newsflash cut into the programme we were watching & it was on for ages.
I recall the link-up of the Russian Soyuz space shuttle with the US Apollo one, in orbit, in 1975; also the probe that landed on Mars in 1976, and sent television pictures back to earth. I recall seeing the pictures captured by the latter, and being disappointed there were no Martian beings appearing in them, being a science-fiction/space obsessive at age seven!
I very vividly remember, when I was 9, the story of Maria Colwell, a child who was killed through cruelty and neglect by her mother and stepfather. I read the story in the Daily Mirror and it was my first introduction to the notion that parents could harm their children. I have since read a lot more about Maria and this case was one of the first which prompted changes to childrens social services. It's the only news story I have any memory of as a child.
I remember the Kobe earthquake vividly - if only because whilst the news was on my nan asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up. Being the unassuming, non-ambitious child I was, I said I wanted to be the Prime Minister of the world My dad then asked me what I would do as Prime Minister of the world - and the first thing I said was that I would repair all the damage that was on the news.
I also remember Princess Di's death, mainly how boring it was that everyone was going on about it. Didn't get the big deal at the time. And I vaguely remember news reports about Bosnia, but had no idea what was actually going on.
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
As soon as I read this I thought his name was Lester, then got to this post.
The first news story I remember vividly was the missing school boy Lester Chapman and then him being found dead in river silt by a rubbish tip.
Such a sad story, I must be the same age as you because I remember it as well.
First political memory was of a programme I wanted to watch - I don't know exactly, Barbapapa or Wacky Races or something - being taken off to show coverage of Harold Wilson resigning. I wasn't very happy! I also remember something called 'Sex Discrimination Act' and having a vague idea it was something rude.
Foreign names seemed to stick in my mind: Aldo Morro, he was an Italian politician kidnapped and found shot; Amoco Cadiz was an oil tanker that sank and all the oil got washed up on a beach in France.
I remember rabies scares, really horrible adverts showing a man in a hospital bed writhing around in pain, then a vicious dog showing its teeth.
Elvis dying, but I wasn't sure who Elvis was - Elvis Costello was starting to become well known around the same time so I assumed it was him who had died!
Got really confused when he kept releasing new songs...
I was always getting confused like that, at Wimbledon I heard them talking about Billie Jean King, but when I saw the scoreboard on the telly it said 'Mrs LW King', so I assumed I kept hearing them wrong and her name was actually Lily Wean King.
I remember my mother and sister gathering round the telly to watch Wimbledon every summer, a phrase that sticks in my mind is "we don't like Stan Smith". I don't know why they didn't like Stan Smith - I remember buying a pair of trainers with his name on when I was a teenager, and remembering again that mum didn't like Stan Smith, but I've never thought to ask either of them why. From what I've read, and I don't remember anything about his playing, he wasn't one of those troublemakers like McEnroe or Nastase.
I remember the Michael Jackson reports in the 90s?
Me too. I was convinced Jordan Chandler was a lying little git but the Martin Bashier (spelling?) documentary and the fresh allegations years later made me eat my words.
Surprised no-one's earliest memories were Thatcher resigning
I remember Thatcher resigning 'cos it meant there were no lunchtime kids programmes on that day and I was livid. I was only about five or six and I just remember sulking at the TV because boring politicians were on.
Me too. I was convinced Jordan Chandler was a lying little git but the Martin Bashier (spelling?) documentary and the fresh allegations years later made me eat my words.
Of course the fact he was acquitted of all charges doesn't matter?
I remember Thatcher resigning 'cos it meant there were no lunchtime kids programmes on that day and I was livid. I was only about five or six and I just remember sulking at the TV because boring politicians were on.
To be so innocent....
Kids always lose out! Just the same with Harold Wilson, don't these politicians want kids to have any fun?!
When the Yorkshire Ripper was eventually caught i will always remember there was a chap at my workplace who had the misfortune of being a Sutcliffe double.....even to his slightly dark skin tone and identical beard style.
He'd actually been taken in by Police for questioning before the real Sutcliffe was caught.
Pretty spooky feeling looking at the guy on my workplace!
The black panther
Lord Lucan disappearing
Decimalisation
Princess Anne getting married
Evel Knieval flinging himself over a canyon or something on a motorbike
A plane hijacking that went on for some days - I don't think everyone came out of that one alive
Sugar rationing due to a shortage for some reason
Nikki Lauda's motor racing accident
The drought of '76
I very vividly remember, when I was 9, the story of Maria Colwell, a child who was killed through cruelty and neglect by her mother and stepfather. I read the story in the Daily Mirror and it was my first introduction to the notion that parents could harm their children. I have since read a lot more about Maria and this case was one of the first which prompted changes to childrens social services. It's the only news story I have any memory of as a child.
Stephen Lawrence
Rachel Nickell
Berlin Wall
Nelson Mandela
All of these, yes. Nelson Mandela being freed was an especially powerful image that stuck with me, even though I didn't really know what was going on at the time.
Surprisingly.......an awful lot. I am not exaggerating. When Saddam was executed...it was BBC2 and a repeat of Dr.Who was on. A purple banner went across the screen saying breaking news on BBC2. It actually terrified me, I was that young and up that late at night and then staying up to watch that.
Channel 4 bomb scare.....Gos live eviction was scapped, Channel 4 ident for a long time with scary music then repeat of either Friends or Simpsons.
Tsunami is also a memorable one. Seeing that on T.V....I still remember the graphics and the Newsround graphics showing that wave going across buildings and explain about tectonic plate activity (I think it was used again for Japan).
Thailand coup in 2006, I remember watching ITV that night.
Queen mother passing as well. Unliike others, I was watching Channel 5 at that time and it was one of those family comedies with Adam Sandler. I don't know the name but it was about a monkey going into space and then it interrupted, had the graphics and the news came up.
Strangely I don't remember 9/11 coverage though. I do remember 7/7 coverage. The map and everything. I definitely remember London 2012 announcment the day afterwards...:(.
I remember Iraq very well and get a lot of nostalgia from thinking about it. Being in school and our teacher talking about it to us in class. I remember bits of Osama dieing and all the people shouting "USA USA" outside the White House....and then the big internet row over whether we should be celebrating someones death or not (oh if they knew what would happen when Thatcher went :rolleyes:.
Liquid bomber is also a memory....anything to do with an airport, a plane or Thailand. Coverage of the SARS as well.
We didn't have a telly (or a fridge or a phone!) when I was little, but we listened to Radio 4, and I remember the story of a lady called Muriel McQuire going missing. It was the main story for a long time. I remember the Richard Nixon going to China. I remember Watergate but I was in France at the time so I only understood part of it, my French wasn't brilliant. A replica of Princess Anne's wedding dress was in the window of Grey's in Bull Street, Birmingham right by the number 91 bus stop, back to Pheasey estate.
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The Moors Murders.
Kennedy Assassination.
Cuban Missile crisis.
I was in my teens when News broke on the above so have very clear memory of the events.
I was born the day it sank. I even mentioned it in another thread.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=68345427&postcount=90
Louise Woodward
Bill Clinton resigning
Oj Simpson court case
Michael Jackson (original sex allegations )
(Bit of a bleak one here but a paedophile called Sidney Cooke who killed a rent boy
9/11
Foot & Mouth disease
Kosovo
Sarah Payne
Holly and Jessica
George W Bush becoming president
Gulf war (My brother collected loads of newspaper cut outs and made a scrap book all about it, I found that rather frightening to be honest).
James Bulger (that really stuck out in my mind as I was the same age as the killers, and just couldn't believe two kids my age could do that to a baby! ..that horrified me! ..still does.
Manchester bombing..., I actually heard that from my house and remember my dad saying "that was a bomb!" (My dad is an ex soldier) ... That was a scary day being so young at that time.
2) The SAS storming the Iranian embassy. I remember it being a Sunday night & I had to go to school the next day. A Newsflash cut into the programme we were watching & it was on for ages.
I also remember Princess Di's death, mainly how boring it was that everyone was going on about it. Didn't get the big deal at the time. And I vaguely remember news reports about Bosnia, but had no idea what was actually going on.
As soon as I read this I thought his name was Lester, then got to this post.
Such a sad story, I must be the same age as you because I remember it as well.
First political memory was of a programme I wanted to watch - I don't know exactly, Barbapapa or Wacky Races or something - being taken off to show coverage of Harold Wilson resigning. I wasn't very happy! I also remember something called 'Sex Discrimination Act' and having a vague idea it was something rude.
Foreign names seemed to stick in my mind: Aldo Morro, he was an Italian politician kidnapped and found shot; Amoco Cadiz was an oil tanker that sank and all the oil got washed up on a beach in France.
I remember rabies scares, really horrible adverts showing a man in a hospital bed writhing around in pain, then a vicious dog showing its teeth.
Elvis dying, but I wasn't sure who Elvis was - Elvis Costello was starting to become well known around the same time so I assumed it was him who had died!
Got really confused when he kept releasing new songs...
I was always getting confused like that, at Wimbledon I heard them talking about Billie Jean King, but when I saw the scoreboard on the telly it said 'Mrs LW King', so I assumed I kept hearing them wrong and her name was actually Lily Wean King.
I remember my mother and sister gathering round the telly to watch Wimbledon every summer, a phrase that sticks in my mind is "we don't like Stan Smith". I don't know why they didn't like Stan Smith - I remember buying a pair of trainers with his name on when I was a teenager, and remembering again that mum didn't like Stan Smith, but I've never thought to ask either of them why. From what I've read, and I don't remember anything about his playing, he wasn't one of those troublemakers like McEnroe or Nastase.
Me too. I was convinced Jordan Chandler was a lying little git but the Martin Bashier (spelling?) documentary and the fresh allegations years later made me eat my words.
I remember Thatcher resigning 'cos it meant there were no lunchtime kids programmes on that day and I was livid. I was only about five or six and I just remember sulking at the TV because boring politicians were on.
To be so innocent....
Of course the fact he was acquitted of all charges doesn't matter?
Kids always lose out! Just the same with Harold Wilson, don't these politicians want kids to have any fun?!
He'd actually been taken in by Police for questioning before the real Sutcliffe was caught.
Pretty spooky feeling looking at the guy on my workplace!
:cool:
James Bulger
Stephen Lawrence
Rachel Nickell
Berlin Wall
Sarajevo
Nelson Mandela
Gulf War
Lord Lucan disappearing
Decimalisation
Princess Anne getting married
Evel Knieval flinging himself over a canyon or something on a motorbike
A plane hijacking that went on for some days - I don't think everyone came out of that one alive
Sugar rationing due to a shortage for some reason
Nikki Lauda's motor racing accident
The drought of '76
That's awful. I don't remember that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Maria_Colwell
All of these, yes. Nelson Mandela being freed was an especially powerful image that stuck with me, even though I didn't really know what was going on at the time.
Jeremy Bamber shooting dead his family
Kings cross fire
John Lennon being murdered
Miners Strike
80's Royal Weddings
Channel 4 bomb scare.....Gos live eviction was scapped, Channel 4 ident for a long time with scary music then repeat of either Friends or Simpsons.
Tsunami is also a memorable one. Seeing that on T.V....I still remember the graphics and the Newsround graphics showing that wave going across buildings and explain about tectonic plate activity (I think it was used again for Japan).
Thailand coup in 2006, I remember watching ITV that night.
Queen mother passing as well. Unliike others, I was watching Channel 5 at that time and it was one of those family comedies with Adam Sandler. I don't know the name but it was about a monkey going into space and then it interrupted, had the graphics and the news came up.
Strangely I don't remember 9/11 coverage though. I do remember 7/7 coverage. The map and everything. I definitely remember London 2012 announcment
I remember Iraq very well and get a lot of nostalgia from thinking about it. Being in school and our teacher talking about it to us in class. I remember bits of Osama dieing and all the people shouting "USA USA" outside the White House....and then the big internet row over whether we should be celebrating someones death or not (oh if they knew what would happen when Thatcher went :rolleyes:.
Liquid bomber is also a memory....anything to do with an airport, a plane or Thailand. Coverage of the SARS as well.