First News Event you remember?

cyrusdvirus

Going on from the Where were you questions being asked about Sept 11 2001, what is the first 'News Event' you remember where you were etc?

For me I think it was the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up in January 86. Will always remember being in the local shop buying milk or something and Radio 2 being on, and they cut into the middle of a song to announce it.

I think the next major event i remember was the Herald of Free Enterprise sinking off Zeebrugge. I think that was the first time i ever watched something happen live where i KNEW people were dying, and i was safe at home. It was a cold night that night too.

Crazy Horse 6

Cuban missile crisis

amacachi

Can't think of a specific one but I do seem to remember hearing about a "punishment beating" on BBCNI every morning around 8.30 before going to bed. Naturally in my mind the term made it sound justified and I was a bit older before I understood while it was newsworthy.

CardBordWindow

The Jamie Bulger murder.

ziedth

Does the aftermath of winning that penalty shootout in Italy 90 count? I remember watching the news of all the celebrations.

After that I guess the Diana car crash. Maybe something in between if someone reminds me.

deman

Wasn't this done just a couple of weeks ago? Deja vu!

kraggy

Brighton Bombing. '84 I think.

FatherLen

princess diana.
i was nine, i really thought i would be able to remember stuff before that.

Dravokivich

The first invasion of Iraq.

I was in the sitting room watching it on the telly.

Gneez

Berlin wall coming down in '89, I was 6 or 7 and remember watching people hit it with hammers on the TV at night time and all I was thinking was ''silly Germans you should use a bulldozer for that'' I had no idea what it was about.

Also first gulf war in '90 and my mother worried that we had the Americans on one side and the soviet union on the other and that Shannon was a target for both should some drama kick off.

Also fall of Soviet Union in '91

pow wow

Nelson Mandela being released from prison.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Events surrounding the end of the Vietnam war.

looky loo

The day Bobby Sands died.

connundrum

pow wow wrote: »

Nelson Mandela being released from prison.

Same as that, but mainly because we got the day off school (I lived in Johannesburg).

Zamboni

The Hillsborough Disaster.

Plazaman

The day the Pope was shot. It was the first time I can remember a TV program being interupted suddenly on RTE and then the words NEWS FLASH appeared.

Snakeblood

gatecrash wrote: »

Going on from the Where were you questions being asked about Sept 11 2001, what is the first 'News Event' you remember where you were etc?

For me I think it was the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up in January 86. Will always remember being in the local shop buying milk or something and Radio 2 being on, and they cut into the middle of a song to announce it.

I think the next major event i remember was the Herald of Free Enterprise sinking off Zeebrugge. I think that was the first time i ever watched something happen live where i KNEW people were dying, and i was safe at home. It was a cold night that night too.

I remember running home from primary school to see the first shuttle go up. Missed the bloody thing of course. Then...Live Aid, and I think a protest about oranges at Dunnes Stores. South African.

Big Nasty

Pope John Paul visiting Ireland in I think it was 1979 - I was four. 1,000,000 people turned out to see him in the Phoenix Park, i.e. 1/3 of the population! :eek::eek::eek:

Ghandee

Bobby Sands dying.
It was big news up in County Derry! (especially as my home village had 2 lads on the strike as well)
I was about 4 at the time!

py2006

I can vaguely remember the Hillsborough disaster

stovelid

IRA stuff. Bombings and blanket/dirty protests in the 70's. Just the general images and memories of the time.

Also a plane crash in the canaries around 79 or 80 as our neighbours died in it.

Davidth88

I vaguely remember Winston Churchill dying , the kids radio hour was cancelled .

But really the first one that I really remember was Biafra , Blue Peter ( Kids TV programme ) did a load about it , I think they may have had an appeal at the time.

I think News Round is a great addition to the TV schedule for kids

pipelaser

Live Aid, I remember my Mother proudly pointing out Bob Geldof, they were showing footage of him in some African counrty in a group of children and he was bending down shaking his long straggly hair so they could grab it, I thought he was a really nice, fun looking man. My Mother told me he was a saint! I was only 3!

Kasabian

Stardust. Shocked me to my core.

JerryHandbag

John Treacy winning the Olympic silver medal at the marathon 1984.

flutterflye

A newborn baby found in a lane stabbed with knitting needles.
I was 8 at the time and my mom was pregnant, and I remember crying myself to sleep when I heard that.

Also, Jamie Bulger.

sbsquarepants

looky loo wrote: »

The day Bobby Sands died.

Not neccesarily the day he died, but i remember the hunger strikes and all the protests and so on that went with them. I would have been maybe 6 or 7 at the time

mrsdewinter

The hunger strikes. And thirty years on, I've never managed to shake the feeling of 'wtf'.

4zn76tysfajdxp

OJ Simpson trial.

Sparkyd2002

deman wrote: »

Wasn't this done just a couple of weeks ago? Deja vu!

yup. done
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055961360&page=11

cyrusdvirus

Apologies.

Mods, can you lock/merge please??

wes

The first news event would be the Berlin wall coming down.

stovelid

gatecrash wrote: »

Apologies.

Mods, can you lock/merge please??

Don't mind the smart arses.

People are interested enough to post here aren't they?

W.Shakes-Beer

Jamie Bulger murder was about my earliest. I would have been 3 at the time and can just about remember my mam being in complete shock over it (as Jamie would have been the same age as me at the time)

My name is URL

I'm almost sure that I remember seeing news reports about the Chernobyl disaster.. even though I was only 2 and a half at the time =/

problemchimp

Decimalisation, '74 world cup, and constant shiit from the British army when visiting my cousins in South Armagh. (My Da getting pushed around and generally harassed by them, scared the craap out of me)

stealinhorses

Princess Diana's death.

Dyr

Probably the Hunger Strikes, interesting times

dark crystal

I remember watching Charles and Diana getting married in '81. Would have been about 5 at the time.

marcsignal

Americans leaving Vietnam, and pushing the helicopters over the side from Aircraft Carrier into the sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5mo88-xjo

ScumLord

Breaking through on the Eurotunnel, I remember my mother saying some day someone will ask you where you were when they connected up the Eurotunnel an you'll have to say sitting in front of the TV in your jammies. That day has finally come mother, god help us all.

Dyr

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Pope John Paul visiting Ireland in I think it was 1979 - I was four. 1,000,000 people turned out to see him in the Phoenix Park, i.e. 1/3 of the population! :eek::eek::eek:

I remember lining up somewhere in santry for him with me cheap plastic pope flag. His timekeeping left a lot to be desired I can tell ya.

My little brother developed a pope obsession after his visit. :eek:

Dyr

mrsdewinter wrote: »

The hunger strikes. And thirty years on, I've never managed to shake the feeling of 'wtf'.

The shinners or whoever used to be organised into H-Block committees used to come around in a flat back truck with a fella delivering an address over a megaphone and another lad wrapped in a blanket portraying a hunger striker. I thought he was a real hunger striker and I couldn't figure out why:

A) They did'nt give him some sandwiches
They were gonna send him back to the H Blocks

Strange times

Sergeant

Chernobyl disaster was the first event I remember clearly. I was 6 at the time, and remember the news report, and our teacher talking about it in school.

Lots of vague memories from the same time of Garret FitzGerald and Charlie Haughey.

Also remember the murders of two British soldiers, who drove down into the path of a funeral procession of an IRA man. The photograph on the front of the paper of the two naked bodies lying there on the road was really stark and harrowing.

Minstrel27

The earliest that I clearly remember was the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.

Killer Pigeon

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Seachmall

Sonia O' Sullivan in the 2000 Olympics, I was 9 watching it that morning.

dfx-

The Millennium celebrations in 1987/1988

marcsignal

Minstrel27 wrote: »

The earliest that I clearly remember was the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife.

Christmas 1989, I remember at the time, Penneys had a Christmas ad with a jingle that went:

"Penneys, got a whole lot of things for Christmas, for you and the family"

and the joke going around was:

"Ceaușescu, got a hole in the head for Christmas, and so did his family"

NSFW - Graphic !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0NWFEC_6E

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Laois_Man

Very vague memorieos of stuff like the John Lennon assasination and Bobby Sands' death, the Charles/Di wedding.

The first real thing I can remember clearly is the Kerry babies scandal

sunflower27

I just remember general stories on 'gorilla' warfare :rolleyes::p

I also remember Australia winning the American Cup:

The 1983 America's Cup was the occasion of the first winning challenge to the New York Yacht Club who had successfully defended the cup over a period of 132 years. An Australian syndicate representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club won the match races to win the America's Cup which ended the longest winning streak in sporting history.

I remember being so excited and having to go to school where everyone was talking about it