It was a weird childhood, I was 8 when Obama was installed as president. I remember people talking about George Bush Jr and the wars he started in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda. Big gap in between Obama’s presidency and then 2012 shooting of Sandy Hook. And abt every school shooting of the 2010s after that sadly. Also I really want to vote for Mitt Romney but I was 12 and brainwashed by my parents. Now that I’m on a form of obamacare I don’t remember any issues with him. I would re-elect for a third term
What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?
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Aneb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Collapse. All the news agencies were calling it the “Resentment” for some reason. They were arguing about if some of the lower order dimensions would survive or not when all the aerovets went dark.
I looked out to see it approaching our crecheworld.
Space collapsing in fifteen dimensions is terrifyingly beautiful in its own way.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Easy, JFK’s assassination. I was 4, came in from the yard and found my mom and a neighbor were sitting at the kitchen table, crying. I asked what was wrong, and she said someone had shot the president.
After that, I remember being irritated that all my favorite TV shows were blocked by news coverage for days.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Olof Palme getting killed or the USSR attack submarine getting stuck on a mititary beach whichever came first.
Scuzzm0nkey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Desert Storm, in small part because my dad was in the AF and deployed to Saudi Arabia. It was pretty much all the news for the short amount of time that actual hostilities were occurring.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Princess Diana’s death, for sure. I remember my mother being absolutely distraught, and I didn’t understand why. We’re not British and I’d literally never hear of her (from my mother or otherwise) before her passing and funeral were news. The funeral took place in the middle of the night and I remember her being up super early to watch (and I eventually woke up and joined her).
I’m surprised it was 1997, I would have figured it was '95ish. Can’t believe that’s the first news story I can remember. But we definitely were NOT a news household. Nobody reading the newspaper, no local news on at night or cable TV news on TV all day.
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mine was Desert Storm, but somehow this post unlocked a core memory for me. I remember exactly what I was doing when it was announced she died - I was playing Quake, E2M1 near the start of the level when my mum tapped me on the shoulder.
I wish I could remember other things this easily, lol
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 months ago
A lot of American women really admired her, my wife included. She was heartbroken at her death. We stayed up all night watching it.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The first moon landing
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Reagan being shot
dellish@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Challenge her exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I’m sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. The 80s were a wild time.
LemmingOnTheEdge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Challenger is my first, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union
realitista@lemmus.org 5 months ago
I only remember it because they wheeled out the TV’s in the middle of school to watch it. Why did they do that?
greygore@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because teacher Christa McAuliffe was onboard. I believe they previously broadcast earlier shuttle launches, but by 1986 they were no longer novel; putting a teacher onboard who was planning to teach some lessons in space made educators more interested and so many schools pulled out the TVs to show the launch live. Turned out to be a different kind of education than they expected.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
1986 was wild experience as a kid here in Finland. Chernobyl, Challenger, Olaf Palme got shot and Mikkeli Hostage crisis/Jakomäki Bank Robbery that ended up in explosion seen on tv.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
l also had Chernobyl in mind at first. It was a big thing, as it affected life as a kid in Europe directly.
But then I remembered all the news stories surrounding the Anti-Pershing protests.
These were in 1983, the year in which humanity perhaps was closest to complete annihilation ever.Yes, the 80s were wild.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh, right the protests against nuclear rearmament in Europe. I was actually part of the “human chain” demo, somewhere between Ulm and Neu-Ulm. Together with my teddy, which got us photographed for the regional newspaper.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The inauguration of Barack Obama.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
The assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s what I was thinking as well but I looked it up and the Challenger explosion was actually shortly before that.
1986 was a strong news year for sure. I was 9 years old at the time.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
That’s what I was thinking as well but I looked it up and the Challenger explosion was actually shortly before that.
While I too remember the Challenger explosion, that memory is much less clear in my mind and I wouldn’t have been able to tell that it happened before.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
- 93 Bombay bomb blasts
- Kargil war
- Attack on Taj Bombay
Internationally
- Princess Diana’s death
- Gulf war
- 9/11
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Clearly, like vividly? OKC bombing. Think was 10.
I vaguely remember desert storm missle strike clips. I remember staying up to watch the ball drop in 91. But anything else on tv in the early 90s that didn’t involve mutant turtles, power rangers, Italian plumbers, or mortal kombat is a blank.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
I was born in 1991. For me, it’s gotta be 9/11. I can’t really specifically remember anything from before that, and I was only 9 when it happened, so I didn’t really pay much attention to the news.
There was a time I was on the news because my grandfather got asked about something at the airport. I have no idea what it was or if it was before. But it certainly wasn’t major and either way I don’t remember the actual story that happened. If I had to guess it was something about asking people about airline delays, but that’s genuinely just a guess.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I remember not being able to get my dial up the day the Kenneth Starr commission came out about Clinton
python@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 months 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.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t remember the news, honestly. The biggest “news” I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Challenger explosion
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly the earliest TV news memory I have is seeing heavy news coverage of John Lennon’s murder.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 months 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
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 5 months 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
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 5 months 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.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months 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 months 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 5 months 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.
Legom7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OJ
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Oh I remember OJ…but I said OKC bombing because most of what I remember from OJ, happening live, was towards the end of the trial. I didn’t watch it religiously and I remember being upset about it always being on.
OKC was in the middle of OJ, but it was one day, so it’s a bit easier to isolate in my memory.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Michael Jackson’s hair catching fire.
Buffy@libretechni.ca 5 months ago
Yep. For me it was Brittany Spears losing her hair from something. Media was mean to that girl.
trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I don’t really pay attention to pop news, but I seen to remember she shaved it off in some kind of episode. Which is understandable considering what she and other child stars are made to go through. To your point, part of that is how mean the media is to them, even in its reactions to the mental breakdowns they cause.
wieson@feddit.org 5 months ago
2004 Tsunami in Thailand
Akagigahara@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
tryagain@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Challenger