What was the first major news' story that you remember hearing about as a child?

LOLOLOL .....we had the delivery driver hang himself..... @Harriet03

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Ha ha it must be useful to remember facts like that. @rckt148

@pennynoodles its a blessing and a curse
I can't forget bad events that personally effected me either
It was real useful in my job in the service ,recreating accidents and remembering what I seen for reports if they ended up in court ,,just refresher my memory and I could tell you in great detail what I saw ,
But all the death I dealt with was hard to live with for a while ,,,you learn to pay attentions to what you allow yourself to see and hear ,when dealing with traumatic things you kind of go on auto pilot and let your experience and training take over ,,kind of distance yourself that your actually there (hard to explain )Doctors and Nurses are good at it ,,
,if I let it in ,,its not getting out ,
at my age ,,my memory is still very much in tact
Wish I didn't know some of the things I'll never forget

But it does have its advantages too

Who were you paired up with?@Nimbus

@pennynoodles 🐒

@MartinII That is a memory ,,2 yrs before I was born

@rckt148 I was 6. I’m not sure, to be honest, whether I remember the event itself or the subsequent Man U v Bolton Cup Final, when of course the crash was on everybody’s mind.

@MartinII I was only 4 when JFK was shot but my Mom was in the hospital she had my brother on the 21st so I was with Grandma and Grandpa ,,and everyone went from happy about the baby to crying ,,My Grandpa had met him ,huge fan
So I remember all that like it was yesterday ,,
But a memory is something I have learned to cherish
I have seen so many I had to remind them who their kids were
Congrats on being around so long
its rare now days I meet anyone I can respect and call my elder 🤗

I remember seeing the wall coming down.@RockinRandal

Aw@luctoretemergo

War is scary, whatever the age. @TeresaRudolph71

I should imagine that people were shocked. @RenaissanceMan

@pennynoodles Everybody everywhere was crying!

I don't remember that one.@Ironicman

@Ironicman I remember that very well, she was found a few miles from my house.

@SW-User 😱

That's a good memory you've got there. @TexasGrandpa

OH yes. @Tminus6453

And do you still believe it happened all these years later?@SW-User

I actually met the horse and was allowed to pat him. @RockinRandal

You must've been in awe.@Ynotisay

@pennynoodles 👍️ Remember it like yesterday.

Wow, bet you wanted to be an astronaut.@SailingSlow

I was still a twinkle in an eye at that point 😁@ThePerfectUsername

@ThePerfectUsername 64.i remember that music.Lyn Davies won the gold medal in the long jump.But I don't think six year old me knew at the time.

Oh dear@SW-User

@pennynoodles yes terrible!

I remember watching that much older......horrible@Starcrossed

Terrible event@SW-User @SW-User

@pennynoodles I was only 5 in 1993 and even then I knew that something horrible had happened.

I was already a mum when that happened. I remember exactly where I was when I heard.@MrBlueGuy

You lot are jogging my memories. @zacksawyer

I was a tiny bit young to remember that. @SW-User

My children might actually say the same thing.@Ryannnnnn

Aw@bijouxbroussard