What's the first major news story you can remember living through as a child?

@MrDavidson Remember that well. At school at the time, every self respecting kid decided they were going to join the SAS. Must have been a heck of a recruiting advert for the Army. Strangely enough one of my school mates actually did end up in the SAS, had some hair raising stories to tell but nothing with this level of drama. Presumably terrorists saw the film and decided the UK was not a sensible target.