What was the first major news story you remember as a child?

[COOL HAND LUKE]

"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."

[Hammer I am]

"Hammer and Pickle 3:45 Sat Feb 17 Re: What was the first major news story you remember as a child? Mr Anon It’s basic developmental child psychology. That paragraph is all completely and utter wrong l. Let's even take it for granted that something has to be consequential to be remembered (which it doesn't), it could be consequential to a child in ways you haven't considered, they might have played some of their music and he liked it, he might have been wondering what drugs were as first time he'd heard it, and why you they could get you in trouble, he might have picked up on cues from adults in the room that it was of interest, he might have been doing something completely unrelated that WAS consequential to him and the news just happened to be on and formed part of the memory. It's clear that you don't know much about the subject at all"

[Side of Ham]

"Stop being a dick Pickle, the only explanation I can give for your lowlife behaviour on here is that being on here and being a cսnt to people so far away from you distracts from the fact you are scared of having Putins Russia on your doorstep.......that's how bitter you come across....."

[violator]

Dunno why but I seem to remember Markov getting poisoned by the umbrella

[Hammer and Pickle]

"That’s right - dramatic, dangerous events that a child of that age can relate to as happening to them. I clearly remember the horrific story of those two jumbos that collided in the Canaries in the 1970s - one was a Pan Am flight. The Jagger and Richards story just wouldn’t register any more than Pink Floyd’s problems with the fucking tax office."

[Mr Anon]

"Mine was the Pan Am bombing, I was 7 or 8, is that old enough or am I lying? Berlin wall the next year too, meant fuck all to me but I still remember it. I'm sure every pretty much every 7 year old in the country knew who the rolling stones were at that time too, what a bizarre fellow you are"

[Vexed]

Challenger disaster I think. Only reading about it as an adult did I realise that at least a few of them survived the breakup and were conscious for their fall from 50-60 thousand feet. Fuck that.

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Mr Anon It‚Äôs basic developmental child psychology. Seven-year-olds may may hear and understand a story about rock celebrities like Jagger and Richards getting done for drugs but they normally would not have the reference points and context to remember it into next week, let alone have it burned into their hard drive for ever. Call me a cսnt or a snide all you like - the claim is just not credible."

[Mr Anon]

"Hammer and Pickle 1:37 Sat Feb 17 Re: What was the first major news story you remember as Sometimes I wonder why everyone seems to have it in for you, then you remind me about your need to be incessantly cuntish and snidey to the point of ridiculousness. If you don't think a 7 year old could understand a new bulletin like that you must have been a real divvy kid, and the fact you think an adult would make something as mundane as that up means you must be a right sad twat!"

[Hammer and Pickle]

Far out braincell. Attasight. Tell us about your first Hyde Park love-in as a 9-year-old. Did you have a poncho or maybe a pair of bongos?

[only1billybonds]

Dopey. Thanks for confirming you were talking shit.

[Coffee]

"Don't know what the earliest was. Probably some football or cricket. I do remember being taken to a game at Crystal Palace in which Mel Blyth got sent off for nutting an opponent. Earliest memories of TV news were to do with the Vietnam war - day after day, black & white images of B52 bombers dropping bombs. President Johnson saying stuff that I didn't understand. Richard Nixon being sworn in and later booted out. The Beatles and Yellow Submarine. Apollo 11 landing on the moon - that was very exciting even for a youngster. Hippies, long beards and flares."

[Hammer and Pickle]

"OK, I love the thought of a seven-year-old braincell doing a Beatles jigsaw puzzle too much to approach the notion with any kind of critical faculty."

[only1billybonds]

"Dopey, the OP is asking about memories, not our abilities to remember details and significance of said memories. My house was full of Stones records, i did Rolling Stones ( and Beatles) jigsaw puzzles and have an older sibling who was obsessed by the RS's. So to explain why you called me a liar, you made up a load of old bollox, well done. Please dont ever stop making a cսnt of yourself on here, I'm sure I'm not alone in finding it amusing"

[only1billybonds]

"Dopey, the OP is asking about memories, not our abilities to remember details and significance of said memories. My house was full of Stones records, i did Rolling Stones ( and Beatles) jigsaw puzzles and have an older sibling who was obsessed by the RS's. So to explain why you called me a liar, you made up a load of old bollox, well done. Please dont ever stop making a cսnt of yourself on here, I'm sure I'm not alone in finding it amusing"

[Hammer and Pickle]

"You see, Milhouse, braincell here expects you and me, that is us, to accept, without a hint of scepticism that, at the tender age of 7 (SEVEN), he not only know who Jagger and Richards were, but appreciated the significance of a drug-related offence enough to remember it more than half a century later. He must have be the proper child prodigy - one might ask what else he was doing when he wasn’t composing his first harpsichord concerto?"

[easthammer]

"My earliest memory of a news bulletin was the death of King George VI. I was 4 years 5 months old. I remember hearing it on the ""wireless"" while looking out the window on a cold day with snow flurries in the air. But don't ask me what was in the news yesterday! Actually, I do know but you get my drift."

[easthammer]

"My earliest memory of a news bulletin was the death of King George VI. I was 4 years 5 months old. I remember hearing it on the ""wireless"" while looking out the window on a cold day with snow flurries in the air. But don't ask me what was in the news yesterday! Actually, I do know but you get my drift."

[torino hammer]

West Ham winning the world cup in 1966 when I was 6

[Manuel]

Who shot JR.

[Fauxstralian]

"Apollo 11 like a few Can remember we got sent home from school to watch on tv. Dont think it was on live but was when the film had arrived and that school only had 1 tv. Was doing a summer office job during University holidays when John Lennon died. Someone came back from lunch with the afternoon paper and a few of us were crowding round reading it. Boss came back & asked what was happening. When he was told that Lennon was dead he shrugged and said 'Big deal, plenty of people die every day' Still makes me laugh"

[Briano]

"Can’t remember the year but there was a front page in the Daily Mirror showing twins that had suffocated in a refrigerator left in the back yard. They died holding hands, Harrowing to see the photo"

[,]

"Death of George V1 Korean War, mainly a memory because an uncle was doing national service and was sent there. Coronation the following year."

[Mickey Rat]

"The Cuban missile crisis when I was 5, I had older sisters so my Mum and Dad got a letter telling them to attend a meeting at our local primary school where they were told in the event of a nuclear attack to get a few tins of food in, paste newspaper over the windows, hide under the table and avoid going out for a day or two!"

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Hammer and Pickle 11:09 Why don't you believe him? Any reasoning behind that statement?

[cholo]

"Elvis dying and crowds gathering outside graceland, nothing after that until either Lennon being shot or the sas raid on the Iranian embassy. Which ever came first."