COOL HAND LUKE 4:28 Fri Feb 16
What was the first major news story you remember as a child?
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Assassination of JFK is the first I can remember, but worst by far was the Aberfan disaster in 1966... I've visited the site and the graves there, it was desperate bad luck - fifteen minutes earlier or a day later and the children would not have been there... and nobody at the NCB was ever held to account for it, despite many warnings about the state of the slag mountain up above the village.
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Far Cough
4:40 Fri Feb 16
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The Pyramids of Giza were finally finished with a topping out ceremony performed by Alf Ramesses II in 1966 BC.
Seriously, I vividly remember where I was when JFK was shot.
CHL, yes the Aberfan disaster was a terrible disaster and the coal board led by Robens was complicit in the tragedy.
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COOL HAND LUKE
4:52 Fri Feb 16
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FC - Apparently the NCB crews had realised several hours earlier that the slag height had dropped overnight by 3 to 4 metres, which was a visible sign that the heap was 'on the move'. This was reported back, and the only management action was to suspend tipping onto that heap. Why nobody alerted anyone in the village below is a mystery to this day. The kids had only been in school 15 minutes when it happened, and it was the last schoolday before half term... Un-fucking-believable, eh?
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zebthecat
4:53 Fri Feb 16
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Apollo 11 Moon landing.
We were living in Miami at the time and actually went to see the rocket at Cape Kennedy just before it was loaded onto the transporter.
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Iron Duke
4:53 Fri Feb 16
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Charles and Diana’s wedding. I think I must have lived under a rock for the first six and a half years of my existence.
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Cheezey Bell-End
4:57 Fri Feb 16
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I think it was the attacks at the Munich Olympics. Watergate was around that time and I remember the David Frost interview. Plus the Vietnam war was on. My first memories are from just after the first moon landing. I regret missing that.
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Woodford Green
4:59 Fri Feb 16
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I vaguely remember (as I was only 5) the John Lennon assasination and Imagine getting back to no 1 in the charts soon after.
While it was not a single event as such I remember following the Falklands conflict quite closely.
In terms of the first pure single events that I vividly remember it would probably be the Mexico City earthquake and the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle.
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Mike Oxsaw
5:04 Fri Feb 16
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Cuban missile crisis.
Scared the shit out of my parents and I was just about old enough to realise it was not a good thing.
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BubblesCyprus
5:06 Fri Feb 16
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Great Train Robbery and JFK
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
5:25 Fri Feb 16
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Probably the docking of the Apollo–Soyuz craft in 1975. I was 9.
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Leonard Hatred
5:36 Fri Feb 16
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I can just about remember Elvis Presley dying.
I was 6, and for some reason I thought he was in the Sex Pistols.
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joyo
5:40 Fri Feb 16
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Moyes being appointed West Ham manager
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Council Scum
5:41 Fri Feb 16
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Storming of the Iranian Embassy
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Council Scum
5:42 Fri Feb 16
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Actually Leonard I remember Elvis as well and my Mum crying in the street when she heard the news.
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mallard
6:29 Fri Feb 16
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John Lennon assassination- I was only 6 but can clearly remember the shocked reaction from my parents
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JayeMPee
6:32 Fri Feb 16
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Probably something to do with the air raid shelter Dad was erecting in the back garden!
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Hammer and Pickle
6:55 Fri Feb 16
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Been think about this and I remember the story about Evil Knievel jumping Snake River so it must be that
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Nurse Ratched
7:02 Fri Feb 16
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I remember my little friend's older sisters trying to frighten us with the words 'Kidsgrove' and 'The Black Panther' (as in, the black panther was after us and was some sort of bogeyman). I can still vividly recall the street we were standing on at the time and the grassy area in front of a terrace of houses, blazing sun of summer. I realised something terrible had been done in Kidsgrove by 'the black panther' but that was all my 6 year old self could comprehend, fortunately. It was many years later that I read the full story. Just horrible.
As a toddler, I apparently appeared on the evening TV news (don'tknow which channel). My parents had taken me along to a demonstration outside a prison (might have been Pentonville, but not certain). Some trade unionists had been imprisoned for some reason and my parents joined the protest to get them released. I was sleepy and some some people at the demo made me a 'bed' out of protest banners to nap in. My parents said the News showed footage of me going to sleep or waking up, one or the other. I would like to say this is my first news 'memory' but I can't remember a thing about it.
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Cony Tottee
7:04 Fri Feb 16
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Probably Charles and Diana getting married.
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the coming of gary
7:12 Fri Feb 16
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Definitely the Apollo 13 Space Mission ... in Cann Hall Infants school (Leytonstone) we had to pray for the astronauts in assembly
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BBondsBootlaces
7:17 Fri Feb 16
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Iranian Embassy siege. I was home with chicken pox when they interrupted the snooker.
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