What's the first major/headline news story you can remember?

[BainesontoastNEW]

It's Lady Diana's death for me.

 

[Lobworm]

Miners strike, Joe Gormley version, 1972/3/4 ish.

 

[Yarrgh]

Vividly? As in the actual details about a specific event? HMS Sheffield being sunk.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Vividly? As in the actual details about a specific event? HMS Sheffield being sunk.

Yeah, the first story you can remember the details of.

 

[Kurt.]

Probably the Iranian embassy siege, I was 7 years old but it was all over the news and for some reason I remember it

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Decimalisation and new money. 1971?
5 or 6 at the time. I remember the details because I was spending them on sweets

 

[Martin Alvito]

Challenger disaster.

I had no grasp of what happened. I was home sick that day. My aunt called, but Mom was off working. She tried to explain, but it bounced off. I didn't get it.

 

[Gary1959]

Aberfan disaster 1966.

 

[Bkk Andy]

John Lennon's death. I had no idea who he was but my Mother was in tears.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Watching the news on 9/11 after school at my Grandparents house

 

[kev]

Aberfan disaster 1966.

This is the first news story that I remember affecting me emotionally.

 

[Nymzee]

Princess Di

 

[Prevenger17]

I'm trying to remember something earlier than the OJ Simpson trial and I can't. My dad used to sit down and watch it in the evenings, I would have been about 9 or 10

 

[DavidH]

Not my first headline but certainly my favourite

 

[tonyhorne]

One of the Apollo moon rockets, can't remember which one. The blast off was screened on TV very early one morning and I was awake so I watched it. Must have been about 10?