Mount St. Helens.
What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?
Submitted 5 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Davel23@fedia.io 5 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months 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. :)
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The first major story where I thought “oh noes” was the Canary Wharf bombing in 1996ish. It was the first time I’d ever seen a “we interrupt this broadcast…” moment and it was so out of the ordinary that it sticks in my mind.
9/11 was a wild ride too. Getting home from school and my old man - who never watched the news - had Sky News on. At that point, the replays seemed… incredible, in the most literal sense of the word.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Why would such a think be announced at school?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
GuyFawkes@midwest.social 5 months ago
Watched the Challenger explosion live in kindergarten.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
yup. we were going to watch the teacher (McCaullif?) and they wheeled the TVs in for the launch. Then they didn’t know what to do until the principal went from class to class telling the teachers to unplug and we all got free time!
tino@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wild choice for a rocket launchpad.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Core memory for a whole generation
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 5 months 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?
grindemup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
911
Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When the Berlin Wall came down
OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
JFK assassination.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 5 months ago
User name checks out. Greetings old friend!
RaoulDuke@leminal.space 5 months ago
Selenas death or OJ trial. Can’t remember which one was first?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bush Sr’s war on Iraq. Rodney king. I was also acutely aware of Ross Perot, because I had an impression I would do where my sibling would put their bare feet on the side of my head to be his ears.
Emi@ani.social 5 months ago
Probably the one with politician being unable to differentiate a box of wine and box with money. Czechs will know.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Prob Rodney King. I was just old enough to know what was going on.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 5 months 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.