Which was the first global news story, you remember?

[BBassic]

Your first memorable news story was when you were twelve? Hope you've started to take a bit more notice of what's going on.

I don't know about you but when I was twelve I didn't give a toss about the news. I had more pressing matters like riding my bike at ridiculous speeds, beating Final Fantasy 7 and playing football in the yard across the street with all the other kids.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Kind of remember the Brighton bombing and the 1984 Olympics. First that I got really interested in was the Challenger crash.

 

[Hove Seagull]

Kind of remember the Brighton bombing

I was walking back to Hove (was actually most of the way back along the seafront) after a student night out in West Street, when I heard the bomb go off.

 

[The Birdman]

The Cuban crisis all sitting looking at a small black and white screen wondering if Kennedyaqq would push the button.

 

[Winker]

We didn't have a tele in these days, but remember Churchill's death ('65), Aberfan disaster ('66) & World Cup win.

I asked my dad - "What's the world cup?, when I heard him getting excited about it!"

 

[nevergoagain]

The first space shuttle launch, was sat in my shorts at primary school and Mrs Goodall brought in a portable TV for us to watch it.

 

[the slow norris]

The first space shuttle launch, was sat in my shorts at primary school and Mrs Goodall brought in a portable TV for us to watch it.

Mine too, and oddly we had a Mrs Goodall at my primary school too, not a londoner by any chance are you nevergoagain?

 

[nevergoagain]

Mine too, and oddly we had a Mrs Goodall at my primary school too, not a londoner by any chance are you nevergoagain?

Sorry no, Haywards Heath for my sins.

 

[The Camel]

The Iranian Embassy siege but am not sure if thats a Global news story.

Remember this really well.

They interrupted coverage of the World Snooker final to have liv pictures of the SAS storming the embassy.

Very exciting stuff.

 

[otk]

Argentina winning the '78 World Cup

Tickertape everywhere

 

[PFJ]

Martin Luther King assasinated

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I was walking back to Hove (was actually most of the way back along the seafront) after a student night out in West Street, when I heard the bomb go off.

Yeah, I bet that's what you told the police too, isn't it?

 

[Wilko]

I remember my parents getting me to leave the room when the Bradford fire was on TV, I think I wanted to watch it but my parents said I was not allowed. Watching it now I can understand my parents decision (I would have been 7)

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Challenger shuttle explosion was always very vivid in my mind, as they interrupted something I was watching on TV to have a Newsround Special, much to my annoyance.

Also remember being quite shocked by the scenes from the Bradford football fire. And I'm pretty sure I remember the TV news programmes being dominated by the miners' strikes in the early 1980s.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

Reading various preview pieces for upcoming India v England test series, lots have mentioned the 1984-5 tour when England last won out there, which took place just after Indira Gandhi's assassination. I'd always had that down as my first news memory, but now realise I had my chronology wrong, as I remember the Brighton bombing which happened a couple of weeks earlier. Either way, October 1984 must have been my month for waking up to the horrors of world news, because I remember them both vividly.

But my first news (as opposed to news story) memory must be earlier than that, because I remember that I was terrified of Peter Sissons's face when I was really little. I thought he had "sad eyes" and would run out of the room crying whenever he appeared on the telly. What a sensitive little lump I must have been back then.

 

[Marxo]

Another for JFK. At that time my dad worked nights and I was allowed to watch TV with my mum before bedtime, imagine my anger when the TV programs were cancelled!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Reading various preview pieces for upcoming India v England test series, lots have mentioned the 1984-5 tour when England last won out there, which took place just after Indira Gandhi's assassination

I can remember there being a joke going round at school about the Gandhi assassination, so I must have been aware of that, as I'm pretty sure my eight year old self laughed at it.

Quite inappropriately, of course.

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

I remember my parents getting me to leave the room when the Bradford fire was on TV, I think I wanted to watch it but my parents said I was not allowed. Watching it now I can understand my parents decision (I would have been 7)

I remember this vividly and was the saddest things then and still to this day.

 

[TheJasperCo]

The 1999 East Timor crisis. Don't know why, just remember the live reports of rebels advancing on the capital has stuck in my head for some reason. I would have just turned seven at that time.

 

[Hove Seagull]

Yeah, I bet that's what you told the police too, isn't it?

I'm sure we were up to no good for some other reason, though.