What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?

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• popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• Akagigahara@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨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.

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  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Was going to post OJ’s Bronco as well. I was 10. Can’t say I remember much earlier than that.

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• masterbaexunn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember not being able to get my dial up the day the Kenneth Starr commission came out about Clinton

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨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.

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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.

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• Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  9.11, I remember questioning as a kid why they bombed iraq afterwards when it was already clear it wasn’t their doing.

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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember seeing Yasser Arafat on TV.

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• tehWrapper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Prob Rodney King. I was just old enough to know what was going on.

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think mine is the JonBenet Ramsey case. I lived in Colorado and I just remember seeing her picture on the news over and over and over. It’s a very very early memory so I don’t remember much else at all.

  I vaguely remember Princess Diana’s death, I think. I remember when Michael Jordan retired - but honestly that might be more to do with Space Jam than anything else.

  And then 911 is the next big one.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Very vague memories of the berlin wall being torn down as presented by mtv. I was like 6.

  I remember it all over tv. All these alternative punk kids.

  And I was so confused why there was a big ass wall covered in graffiti in the middle of the city and also why it was an issue.

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• paperazzi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Early 1970s, I was around 6yo, hearing a discussion on the news about black civil rights and understanding it was logical and right.

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• aldhissla@piefed.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The PM dying. They've interrupted Duck Tales for that shit, the bastards!

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• figjam@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember seeing a story about a bombing in Lisbon (Portugal) and being concerned because I had an Aunt in Lisbon (Ohio)

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• RaoulDuke@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Selenas death or OJ trial. Can’t remember which one was first?

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• Jhuskindle@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think Wałęsa winning presidential elections. But I just kind of remember it happening and people talking about it, not actually seeing it on TV. It’s really hard to say what was the first live broadcast I remember. Fire in shipyard in Gdańsk happened in 1994, so when I was 10, but there was a song about it so maybe I remember it from the music video and not news from the day?

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Elvis Presley’s death.

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• Davel23@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just realized what the second question in the topic is asking. I believe Walter Cronkite is reporting the assassination of JFK.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Great question! The very earliest story I can vaguely summon up at the moment was about a hurricane devastating the city of La Paz in Baja California Sur, from Mexican news on television. To pin down any details, I had to look it up, and came up with Hurricane Liza in 1976.

  There was an image that got seared into my brain at the time, but it was probably my very young mind playing tricks on me, watching this report on one of those old, old, OLD small and blurry black-and-white televisions: the image of a dead baby lying face down among the rubble.

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• tino@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Berlin wall for sure. Earlier major events like Tchernobyl, famine in Ethiopia or the death of Coluche (iconic French comedian, pretty big thing in France), I mostly remember my parents reaction and discussions at home.

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• Tower@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.

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• Legom7@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  OJ

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Last manned moon landing.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember us giving Hong Kong to China, and Princess Diana’s horrible death.

  As for the picture, I don’t know what county it’s from but it doesn’t look like the British Broadcasting Corporation which would have been the dominant broadcaster of that era, so I wouldn’t know.

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s Walter Cronkite reporting on Kennedy’s assassination. I’m not American, but I’ve seen it often enough now to know this.

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• proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Partially because I lived through it, the ‘89 earthquake. I specifically remember not having power and then everything turning back on after midnight and what the news looked like (more grainy than normal) because I was afraid of the dark and hadn’t been able to sleep.

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• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  genuinely? everything has been so saturated with “major news” that i do not remember a single one.

  if urgency becomes the norm, nothing is urgent anymore

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  2004 Tsunami in Thailand

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• Emi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably the one with politician being unable to differentiate a box of wine and box with money. Czechs will know.

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