I remember seeing a story about a bombing in Lisbon (Portugal) and being concerned because I had an Aunt in Lisbon (Ohio)
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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figjam@midwest.social 5 months ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 months 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?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Elvis Presley’s death.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The husband’s delay in calling in might also have been caused by Verizon’s telephone network being temporarily overloaded. I remember trying to call my family that morning and only got a message saying “all circuits are busy now”.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 months 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
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I remember seeing Yasser Arafat on TV.
adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I dislike that my brain went with Milli Vanilli and not something like the berlin wall…
warbond@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can you believe they lip synched on live TV!? What fraudsters!
niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
tino@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
loomi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Middle East wars (which doesn’t really pin down a timeframe)
ERA (which does)
Tower@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
9.11, I remember questioning as a kid why they bombed iraq afterwards when it was already clear it wasn’t their doing.
daannii@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
paperazzi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Early 1970s, I was around 6yo, hearing a discussion on the news about black civil rights and understanding it was logical and right.
aldhissla@piefed.world 5 months ago
The PM dying. They've interrupted Duck Tales for that shit, the bastards!
Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Last manned moon landing.
obinice@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months 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.
First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Either the first Donald Trump presidency or maybe a bit before that with the Eurozone crisis and the collapse of BES
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 months 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 5 months ago
Was going to post OJ’s Bronco as well. I was 10. Can’t say I remember much earlier than that.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
With the OJ thing and with the Ok City thing, it’s really just bits and pieces of memory. I remember the police sketch of the bomber but I didn’t realize it was the OK City incident until I was older and I saw the sketch again.
The Princess Diana thing is the first time I can remember understanding as well as real news coverage. I would have been around 9 or 10 at the time too.
proudblond@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Protestors stealing a tank and driving it out of a museum into the crowd (nobody got hurt) during the 2006 protests that were the foundation to the Orbán regime.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 5 months 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
Davel23@fedia.io 5 months ago
Just realized what the second question in the topic is asking. I believe Walter Cronkite is reporting the assassination of JFK.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
ZindaDil@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Army public school attack in december 2014
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
9-11 coverage and the second plane live on TV in elementary school
oyzmo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The destruction of the Berlin wall, and uniting of west- and east Germany.
Ibisalt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the “wir sind das volk” chants still sends chills down my spine. what a great moment for humanity.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months 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!”
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My Silent Gen parents shielded me from their racism best they could,
that’s incredibly self aware for the day.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It really was a lesson! Bear in mind, I grew up on shows like All in the Family and The Jefferson’s, featuring bigots as the main characters, and they were always shown to be assholes in every episode. So ham-fisted it’s hard to watch now. :) I grew up on WOKE shows like the Electric Company and Sesame Street. The 70s and forward were, “Be a racist, better keep a fucking lid on it.”
My parents lived in Selma, AL when King marched through. They had “mammies” to raise their girls. Strange times I missed.
fubarx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
Toes@ani.social 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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