Obama becoming President, I think! I had a very old Elementary School teacher, and while she certainly used some not-okay words to explain the event to us, I think she was quite supportive of it. I must have been 9 years old? So either my memory is bad or there just weren’t all that many interesting world events that I would have heard about when I was younger than that.
What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?
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python@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The Challenger explosion
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I don’t remember the news, honestly. The biggest “news” I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I remember not being able to get my dial up the day the Kenneth Starr commission came out about Clinton
fubarx@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 20 hours ago
Watched the Challenger explosion live in kindergarten.
tino@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Wild choice for a rocket launchpad.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Core memory for a whole generation
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Honestly the earliest TV news memory I have is seeing heavy news coverage of John Lennon’s murder.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
9-11 coverage and the second plane live on TV in elementary school
Toes@ani.social 12 hours ago
For myself that would be 9/11. I remember being confused when the teacher put it on the tv. Thought we were watching an action movie.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I remember being upset that all of the other classes got to watch it. We heard from friends in other classes that an attack had happened and they were all watching TV now. My teacher refused to put it on, and kept teaching as usual until parents started showing up to pull their kids out of school early.
Thinking back, it’s probably good that we didn’t watch it; We were only 8 years old, after all. All my friends in the other classes watched the towers fall live, while I only got the recap.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I’m trying to remember something big before 9/11. I was 9 years old and I feel like I should remember at least one news story before then, but I guess that’s basically the first thing that got enough attention to really leave an impression. Not to mention literally everything changing after that
DeLancre@feddit.org 10 hours ago
We wanted to watch our daily dose of Pokémon at a friend’s house but there was only a stupid movie of planes flying in skyscrapers on TV. When we wanted to complain about this to his grandfather he was watching the same movie and told us to go. So we decided the TV must be broken and played on his N64 instead. It wasn’t until next day in school I learned that the “movie” was real
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Margaret Thatcher getting rid of milk snacks in schools. I grew up in a mining town, so from a very young age, I was acutely aware of how much everyone hated Thatcher. However, I just thought that people really liked milk, and that’s why they hated “Margaret Thatcher the milk snatched”. I don’t like the taste of milk on its own, and I can remember being 3 or 4 years old and bemused by the intensity of feelings towards her — I guessed that people must really like milk
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
9/11. I was in school and my teacher wheeled the TV cart in. She was an absolute wreck doing so because her husband left that morning for an interview in tower 1. Due to the phone traffic being so busy she couldnt reach him. Luckily he was running late because of traffic and had to drive far enough away before he could call her.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Where did you grow up? I was in 4th grade in Fairfield county and we had soooo many stories like that, both tragic and miraculous. Missed trains, traffic, sick kids, but also people that otherwise wouldn’t have been there but for a thing that day, interview, meeting. Thankfully our elementary school did an amazing job with a media blackout, teachers that couldn’t remain composed were swapped for those that could, we were all given a sheet to bring home explaining that we hadn’t been told anything yet. But it really quickly became obvious that something terrible had happened, kids getting picked up for no reason, every fire truck in town screaming down the highway, the fucking jets flying over. Apparently the highschool didn’t do a good job containing things and tons of kids just left, some to try to get to the city where their parents worked. Didn’t learn about that until years later. I remember standing on the beach the next day watching the smoke rise over Long Island Sound
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
5 October 1974: Guildford pub bombings: IRA bombs exploded in two pubs frequented by off-duty British military personnel. Four soldiers and a civilian were killed and 44 injured.
loomi@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Middle East wars (which doesn’t really pin down a timeframe)
ERA (which does)
oyzmo@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The destruction of the Berlin wall, and uniting of west- and east Germany.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I actually remember seeing Haley’s Comet. I want to live long enough to blah blah blah, but really I just wanna see that stupid thing again before I go. Feels like a decent bookend, ya know?
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Challenger and Chernobyl, as they happened within a few months.The shape of the Challenger cloud will be forever seered into my brain. And after Chernobyl we had to seek cover immediately when it started to rain and weren’t allowed to play on grass, I’ll always remember that sense of unease. We also had two young kids from the Ukraine in our home for a while. Thinking back on that I feel so bad for them. They were so far from home and communication only worked through a paper dictionary. They didn’t shower for a while because they were told water was very expensive. Somehow their hovercraft was full of eels.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I never saw the Chernobyl disaster until later in life. Must have gone over my head. We had a kidnapping in the neighborhood that went national around then too. Could be why.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Wow yeah that was the same year 😳 I saw the Challenger disaster on the news in January when I lived in Colorado, then the Chernobyl disaster I saw on TV on the news when I lived in California that summer.
1986 was a Colorado-California year for me.
Davel23@fedia.io 20 hours ago
Mount St. Helens.
shalafi@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Having a hard time with this question, but yeah, that’s an early memory. I just thought it was exciting that a volcano blew up in America! Had no concept of the devastation, but I do remember ash raining down hundreds of miles away. Was bummed we didn’t get any in Tulsa. :)
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I dislike that my brain went with Milli Vanilli and not something like the berlin wall…
warbond@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Can you believe they lip synched on live TV!? What fraudsters!
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Michael Jackson’s hair catching fire.
Buffy@libretechni.ca 7 hours ago
Yep. For me it was Brittany Spears losing her hair from something. Media was mean to that girl.
OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com 21 hours ago
JFK assassination.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
User name checks out. Greetings old friend!
Akagigahara@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think for me, it would be the Fukushima catastrophe. I was 8 at the time and I remember my school doing a donation event for it.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Although I lived through others I think I was to young to remember them or caring. So for me it was the OJ trial since they legit announced it overhead at our school which was weird thinking back on it. After that would be 911.
bobo1900@startrek.website 11 hours ago
Why would such a think be announced at school?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Not really sure. Only thing I can think of is it was just that big and since the internet really wasnt that big yet this was an easy way to tell everyone. It was really big news for some reason.
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Desert storm has ended announcement on the radio in a garage in a car. I said what’s desert storm and I don’t think it was explained and life went on
grindemup@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
911
shalafi@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The opening weeks of Star Wars, fans lined up around the block, many seeing it again and again and again.
Sister took me when I was 6. All I remember was eating lunch in the breakfast room, parents asking, “WELL? How was it?!” “OK I guess.” LOL, was not impressed in the moment, turned into a fairly rabid fan for a couple of decades.
NYC blackout was a couple of months later. Not that I had a clue what was happening, but it was all over the news. My Silent Gen parents shielded me from their racism best they could, but I remember mom commenting on the rioting, “Oh, those BUH-LACKS!”
Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
When the Berlin Wall came down
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I remember OJ’s Bronco on the news. I would have been 6yo. I also remember OK City Bombing a year later. Then I don’t remember much news until Princess Diana’s death.
After that I remember a lot of news stories.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Was going to post OJ’s Bronco as well. I was 10. Can’t say I remember much earlier than that.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The beating of Rodney King. I was very young, maybe 6, and didn’t understand why they had to beat that man.
Now I do understand. And it’s pretty shitty.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I don’t think I have a single clear memory of any news story ever. I have vague half-remembered snippets.
The best I can do is 9/11 but I was well into my teens at that point, and even then my memory of the news itself isn’t clear.
I remember what my local news anchor looked like. That’s absolute it.