Which was the first global news story, you remember?

[Max Paper]

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,

This was mine too! Also aged 9 and without looking at a list of world news stories this is the one that springs to mind! All through the 80's we got the ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe every summer before dad drove us down to the south of France for the annual family holiday so it really made me sit up and take notice!

 

[Max Paper]

Having continued reading the posts the Challenger disaster was before the ferry disaster and I remember THAT like it was yesterday, I was at Patcham Junior School at the time!

 

[beakyburn]

Yuri Gagarin - first man in space 1961

This and also Russians storming into Hungary. So we ended up getting Joe Bugner.

 

[Marxo]

This and also Russians storming into Hungary. So we ended up getting Joe Bugner.

I wonder if Hungary got a percentage when we sold him on to Australia?

 

[centurion40]

Has to be Elvis Presley dying, I cried and had to have the day off school, just thought I'd share that with you all for reasons I can't think of

 

[beakyburn]

I wonder if Hungary got a percentage when we sold him on to Australia?

Think they sent it back to our "Enery"

 

[Frutos]

Princess Diana's death.

 

[Tight shorts]

Earliest memories are probably the troubles and starvation in Cambodia in the late 1970s. Wasn't interested in the news at that age but probably awareness was raised on children's news programmes.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Im fairly young, so for me its 9/11.

 

[Blackadder]

I'm pretty sure I remember the TV news programmes being dominated by the miners' strikes in the early 1980s.

Did that influence your decision to join the police Edna?

 

[Ali_rrr]

I'm fairly young and was only 4 at the time of 9/11, so I don't really remember that, I'd probably say about Saddam Hussein being hung was the first I can think of.

 

[Stat Brother]

I'm fairly young and was only 4 at the time of 9/11, so I don't really remember that, I'd probably say about Saddam Hussein being hung was the first I can think of.

Blimey, I'm not the oldest on this thread, but I feel it now.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

I'm fairly young and was only 4 at the time of 9/11, so I don't really remember that, I'd probably say about Saddam Hussein being hung was the first I can think of.

Was he well hung?

 

[Nibble]

I'm fairly young and was only 4 at the time of 9/11, so I don't really remember that, I'd probably say about Saddam Hussein being hung was the first I can think of.[/Q

You were 19 before you remember a global news story? Sign of the times indeed.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I'm fairly young and was only 4 at the time of 9/11, so I don't really remember that, I'd probably say about Saddam Hussein being hung was the first I can think of.[/Q

You were 19 before you remember a global news story? Sign of the times indeed.

Errr, he was 9...

 

[Nibble]

Errr, he was 9...

Haha! What a twat I am. Yes, I do apologise!

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Moon landings for me, closely followed by West Germany 3 England 2, World Cup 1970.

 

[maltaseagull]

Assassination of JFK

 

[detsknil]

Can't truely remember but I can recall the famines in Ethiopia, Miners Strikes a lot of IRA shit and the Falklands.

 

[Stat Brother]

Can't truely remember but I can recall the famines in Ethiopia, Miners Strikes a lot of IRA shit and the Falklands.

That would be IRA - Miners - Falklands - Ethiopia - IRA.