Which was the first global news story, you remember?

[Stat Brother]

All the talk of Argo, has me thinking.
The overthrow of The Shah of Iran is probably the very first international news event, that I was aware of, as a child.

I would have been about 10.

I seem to remember some long drawn out aeroplane hijackings, and Carter losing to Reegan, all of which would have been about the same time.

But Ayatollah Khomeini's succession to power is my most vivid memory.

 

[Hove Seagull]

Neil Armstrong on the moon

 

[Mr Smggles]

9/11

 

[marshy68]

Pope john paul II being shot

 

[marshy68]

oppps remember John Lennon being shot first....

 

[Knightsworld]

The day Elvis died. Remember my Mum sobbing her heart out at the breakfast table.

 

[Stat Brother]

The day Elvis died. Remember my Mum sobbing her heart out at the breakfast table.

That's a good one, I remember him dying but not really who he was.




(The Stat parents were not big on The King)

 

[Storer 68]

moon landings in 1969

 

[Hillian1]

The Fall of Saigon was the first real memory, I remember seeing it on the TV and announcing to my parents, who were out of the room, that the 3rd World War had started.

 

[Blackadder]

JFK being assassinated.

Remember the shock on my parents' faces.

 

[Brovion]

JFK being assassinated.

Remember the shock on my parents' faces.

Me too.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Suez. The streets of Newport being lined with tanks and other armoured vehicles, all painted sandy yellow, waiting to be loaded on to ships to support the Eden government's fantasy that Britain could carry on ruling the Middle East.

 

[Bill Cassidy's tie up]

Yuri Gagarin first man in space

 

[Questions]

Suez. The streets of Newport being lined with tanks and other armoured vehicles, all painted sandy yellow, waiting to be loaded on to ships to support the Eden government's fantasy that Britain could carry on ruling the Middle East.

They couldn't even rule Newport.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

princess diana's death.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Depends on how clear the memory has to be, and how much I understood of it.

How about the Queen's Coronation? but I was very young and did not really understand. Actually my big sister went to the Festival of Britain in 1951 but again I was too young to know what it was about - or to go.

JFK's assassination was the first and biggest news story that I took notice of

 

[Kumquat]

John Lennon's murder. Remember my Mum gasping when she heard it on the radio and sitting down in shock. I was 7. Unless you count Margaret Thatcher's election.

 

[Bruntburger]

War in Yugoslavia

 

[KneeOn]

Kosovo, Milosovich - in my old house on a 16 inch crt TV, red walls watching explosions in a hilly town. 9/11 would have been the other one.

 

[supaseagull]

John Lennon's murder. Remember my Mum gasping when she heard it on the radio and sitting down in shock. I was 7. Unless you count Margaret Thatcher's election.

Yep same here...I remember Lennon's death like it was yesterday (no pun intended!)