Thread: First Big News Story You Were Aware Of As A Kid?

We were on the way to get our tire fixed at a goodyear tire on Havana when Reagan was shot. What i remember the most was thinking that brady getting killed was more important than Reagan getting shot.

Who knew the president was the most important in the land.

Originally Posted by Devilspawn

I was 7 or 8 at the time and remember it just a wee bit.

I was about the same age. We lived on the island and even though the killings were in the city, people on the island were freaked. I think maybe one was in Queens.

Originally Posted by Al Wilson 4 Mayor

My two earliest memories of news stories were the death of Elvis Presley and the dumpster fire that was the Jimmy Carter presidency.

Remember the old Oscar Mayer song from back when we were kids? One Sunday, a friend came to our Sunday school class & sang:

Our President has a 1st name,
its J-i-m-m-y
Our President has a 2nd name,
its C-a-r-t-e-r
Oh we love to hate him everyday,
& if you ask me why I'll say,
Jimmy Carter has a way of screwing up the USA

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

First one that comes to mind is the landing on the moon. July 20, 1969. I remember watching it, but also being pissed because that was my cousins birthday. Mine was 5 days earlier - we were born the same year and grew up together. I was 7.

I was 2 months - 2 weeks old.

Challenger.

9/11

Like a few others here the Challenger exploding was the one that sticks out. Even worse new evidence suggests the crew didn't perish until well after the initial explosion which makes it much more somber:

Though the shuttle had broken to pieces, the crew compartment was intact. It stabilized in a nose-down attitude within 10 to 20 seconds, say the investigators. Even if the compartment was gradually losing pressure, those on the flight deck would certainly have remained conscious long enough to catch a glimpse of the green-brown Atlantic rushing toward them. If it lost its pressurization very slowly or remained intact until it hit the water, they were conscious and cognizant all the way down.

In fact, no clear evidence was ever found that the crew cabin depressurized at all. There was certainly no sudden, catastrophic loss of air of the type that would have knocked the astronauts out within seconds. Such an event would have caused the mid-deck floor to buckle upward; that simply didn’t happen.

http://gawker.com/thirty-years-ago-t...and-1755727930

Originally Posted by BroncoWave

Probably princess Diana's death I guess? Don't remember the exact year that happened but I can't have been older than 8 or 9.

Scratch that, I remember the OKC bombing, which happened 2 years before Diana died. I was 5 when that happened.

For me it was the Assassination attempt on Reagan.

Princess Diana and OJ.

I think Hillsboro disaster or the first Iraq war

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

I think Hillsboro disaster or the first Iraq war

And stuff about cfc/ozone but not sure when that was, a memory of that just appeared and I seemed quite young

Originally Posted by Valar Morghulis

I think Hillsboro disaster or the first Iraq war

Due to it happening on your side of the pond, I had to look it up:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-19545126

After reading the link, I vaguely remember hearing something about this. I was to understand that it was all due to shoddy construction, but this article says that a jury puts most of the blame on the police.

PS: This happened about a 1 1/2 before Saddam invaded Kuwait, it would’ve been your 1st memory.

I'm not sure. I guess when Dale Earnhardt died. I don't remember very much before I was 11 or 12.

John Lennon's murder