What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?
What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?
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Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.
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9-11 coverage and the second plane live on TV in elementary school
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The destruction of the Berlin wall, and uniting of west- and east Germany.
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the "wir sind das volk" chants still sending chills down my spine. what a great moment for humanity.
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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.
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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
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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 getting a message saying "all circuits are busy now".
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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?
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Challenger exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I'm sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. And after that, Pan Am 103 exploding. The 80s were a wild time.
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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.
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Challenger is my first, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union
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1986 was wild. Chernobyl, Challenger, Olaf Palme assassination and Jakomäki Bank Robbery/Mikkeli hostage crisis that ended up in big car explosion seen on tv.
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I only remember it because they wheeled out the TV's in the middle of school to watch it. Why did they do that?
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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.
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Mount St. Helens.
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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. :)
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JFK assassination.
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User name checks out. Greetings old friend!
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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.
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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 second plane hit and saw towers fall live, while I only got the recap.
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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
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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
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911
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When the Berlin Wall came down
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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.
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Why would such a think be announced at school?
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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.
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Middle East wars (which doesn’t really pin down a timeframe)
ERA (which does)
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Probably the Iranian Revolution.
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I dislike that my brain went with Milli Vanilli and not something like the berlin wall...
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Can you believe they lip synched on live TV!? What fraudsters!
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I remember OJ’s Bronco on the news. I would have been 6yo. I also remember OK City Bombing a year later. Mostly just the wanted poster sketch, honestly. 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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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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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.
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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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The opening weeks of Star Wars, fans lined up around the block, many seeing it again and again and again. Some had seen it dozens of times. I was shocked.
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!"
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My Silent Gen parents shielded me from their racism best they could,
that's incredibly self aware for the day.
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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.
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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.
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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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Michael Jackson’s hair catching fire.
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Yep. For me it was Brittany Spears losing her hair from something. Media was mean to that girl.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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The PM dying. They've interrupted Duck Tales for that shit, the bastards!
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I asked the same question to my parents, and my dad's answer was also the PM dying. Though considering you mentioned Duck Tales I suspect you don't mean the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt.
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It was Antall József, PM of Hungary. Cancer iirc
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The picture is Walter Cronkite, but I couldn't tell you what he's reporting on here. Best guess is JFK assassination, just because that's probably the most famous thing.
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Selenas death or OJ trial. Can’t remember which one was first?
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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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Prob Rodney King. I was just old enough to know what was going on.
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I remember seeing Yasser Arafat on TV.
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The Challenger explosion
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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
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A lot of American women really admired her, my wife included. She was heartbroken at her death. We stayed up all night watching it.
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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.
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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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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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The first moon landing
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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.
EDIT: That was a bummer, let me try again with a much more positive mind-blowing blast-from-the-past that might make some of you go - "Damn... yeah, deep pull, man!"...
How about the Montreal Olympics, particularly and spectacularly, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci! I also remember one specific moment of the closing ceremonies, doves being released as Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" was playing at full blast at the Stadium Olympique!
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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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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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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.
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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.
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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The assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.
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That's what I was thinking as well but I looked it up and the Challenger explosion was shortly before that.
1986 was a strong news year for sure. I was 9 years old at the time.
edit: actually, it was the Pershing II protests of 1983, which my family joined.
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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.
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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.
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and then a few months later:
86 was a big year
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Elvis Presley’s death.
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Just realized what the second question in the topic is asking. I believe Walter Cronkite is reporting the assassination of JFK.
Edit:No, wait, I think that's Apollo 11, the moon landing.
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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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Last manned moon landing.
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- 93 Bombay bomb blasts
- Kargil war
- Attack on Taj Bombay
Internationally
- Princess Diana's death
- Gulf war
- 9/11
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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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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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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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Probably the one with politician being unable to differentiate a box of wine and box with money. Czechs will know.
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2004 Tsunami in Thailand
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Honestly the earliest TV news memory I have is seeing heavy news coverage of John Lennon's murder.
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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.
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OJ
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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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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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Reagan being shot
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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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Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.
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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.
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Army public school attack in december 2014
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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
Edit: turns out that the milk removal was before my time
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I don't remember the news, honestly. The biggest "news" I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.
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Olof Palme getting killed or the USSR attack submarine getting stuck on a mititary beach whichever came first.
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Either the first Donald Trump presidency or maybe a bit before that with the Eurozone crisis and the collapse of BES
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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.
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I'm old enough I probably would remember 9/11 if I were American, but it wasn't a big enough thing here to stick in my head.
I do vaguely remember East Timor's independence the following year being a thing, and I remember the Iraq War (mainly because of all the opposition to it) from the year after that.
If it counts, I remember where I was on New Year's Eve 2000, too.
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I remember not being able to get my dial up the day the Kenneth Starr commission came out about Clinton
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The inauguration of Barack Obama.
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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
Watched the Challenger explosion live in kindergarten.
Wild choice for a rocket launchpad.
Core memory for a whole generation
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!