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[News] What was the first news story you remember?



Barry Izbak

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Dec 7, 2005
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Old bloke alert.....

The first thing I remember on TV was Winston Churchill's funeral

I don't remember the World Cup Final though, which was two years later
 










Mexican Seagull

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Jan 16, 2013
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Cuba missile crisis, watching the news on BBC black & white and especially my dads reaction - he was really scared a new world war was about to start.
Aberfan disaster
 




Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012
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Local: no idea
National: Charles and Diana wedding (1981)
International: Chernobyl and Challenger disaster (1986)
 


marcos3263

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Oct 29, 2009
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Local and international - Falklands war as my dad went off to fight and so cameras down at the docks to see the ship go off and I was briefly seen in the crowd 1982
National - Charles and Diana's wedding as I was on a scout camp and we watched it on a tiny black and white telly hooked up to a car battery. 1981 - I was 9

I do think I remember the storming of the embassy in 1980 but it may be just a big thing in my time that I should remember!

In the same way I remember the Fireman strikes in 1977 as my army dad was drafted in to drive the Green goddesses but as I would have been 5 I'm sure it is a passed down memory.
 






Couldn't Be Hyypia

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Nov 12, 2006
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Near Dorchester, Dorset
Local - Drought reporting and Dutch Elm disease - 76
National - Princess Anne & Cpt Mark Phillips wedding - 73
International - Elvis Death - 77

Do you remember there was a campaign which was "Plant a tree in '73" and they ran it again the next year as "Plant more in '74". I thought that was national, but I wonder if it was related to Dutch Elm Disease?
 










Rinkmaster

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Oct 1, 2020
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Two main stories stick in my mind. The world cup in 1966 and Nobby Styles skipping across Wembley and the disaster that was Aberfan. I was nine when they happened. Aberfan was shocking.
 


lawros left foot

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Jun 11, 2011
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Churchill’s funeral.

I particularly remember the cranes dipping as the funeral barge went by in the Thames.

Local, my Dads workmate committing suicide. Or, a tug of love case with my foster sister’s real sister involved between her foster parents who were a bit creepy, and the real Mum. The first time I can remember of the press being absolute assholes.

International, JFK.
 




lawros left foot

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Local: Maria Colwell murder
National/international : SR-71 flying from New York to London in under 2 hours
International/interstellar : The Apollo moon landings



Maria Colwell shared a social worker with my foster sisters. Another case of the press being assholes.
 


Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
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I think it was the 3-Day Week in Jan - Feb 1974 .

I was 5 at the time and can remember my family having to light candles and paraffin lamps in the evenings.
 


lawros left foot

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Reading through this thread, the only event that seems to fit all 3 criteria,local, national, and international is the bombing of the Grand.
 






The Clamp

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I recall The Hungerford Massacre breaking. I don’t remember much about the actual incident from the time but I remember my Dad’s face going ashen during the news-flash.
 


The Clamp

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that live Iranian hostage thing which interrupted the tv schedules was quite gripping. This is the oldest I can currently remember.

Yep. Allowing the terrorists inside to watch the operation live from outside. Or is that an urban myth?
 


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