Which was the first global news story, you remember?

[Mr Burns]

Titanic sinking

 

[Hillian1]

Suez. The streets of Newport being lined with tanks and other armoured vehicles, all painted sandy yellow, waiting to be loaded on to ships to support the Eden government's fantasy that Britain could carry on ruling the Middle East.

Blimey, I remember my dad telling me this was the scariest moment of his life when as an eighteen year old being ordered to paint all the artillery pieces sand yellow and then make a will.

 

[El Sid]

Vicente Goes Missing

 

[HovaGirl]

Yuri Gagarin - first man in space 1961

 

[Woodchip]

I can remember a paper printing a headline of "Did anyone hear that bang".

 

[BrightonBiatch]

My first memory was the Zeebrugge ferry disaster 1987, i was 9 and remember seeing it all on tv,the rescues or attempts !! reading newspapers and feeling really upset by it all,

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Uganda - Idi Amin or the power cuts of 74, whichever came first.

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Not international but I also remember the story of the hydrofoil(?) sinking in storms to the Scilly Isles? Remember it because we went a few days later..... by helicopter.

 

[Shegull]

Robert Kennedy being shot. Have a very vague memory of JFK's funeral but Bobby Kennedy is the one that sticks out in mind. Terrifed me and was not able to sleep after watching news reports

 

[El Presidente]

First DVDA video

 

[WildWood]

First news story I remember (maybe not International) was having the "big telly" wheeled into the classroom so we could watch the Mary Rose being lifted out the water. Just remember the buzz round the school of watching telly at school - unheard of!!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Concorde's inaugural flight and/or the first moon landing in 1969 I'd guess.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Did'nt know much about the actual story then but remember a picture of a warship with the headlines Graf Spee sunk.
Was at the Suez 1956

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Churchills funeral I suppose was the first thing I really took notice of.

 

[Paskman]

The first foreign news That entered my consciousness was watching the Vietnam War on the 9 o'clock news in the 1960s

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Lord Mountbatten assassination 1979.


IRA Scum

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

9/11

This. Remember getting in from school and my dad being transfixed on the television and the atrocities that were occuring in New York!

 

[TheMajor]

"Charlemagnes crushing of the Aquitanian rebellion"

 

[drew]

Neil Armstrong on the moon

Snap. Was 7 and was dragged out of bed to watch this the actual landing.

 

[Stat Brother]

Lord Mountbatten assassination 1979.


IRA Scum

Oh that's right in the same park as me.
If I could be bothered I'd look to see which 'won'.