Darlo Debs 11:13 Mon May 31
What is the first big news item you can remember?
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Mine is the death of Elvis when I was 7.
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Far Cough
11:23 Mon May 31
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JFK
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MaryMillingtonsGhost
11:25 Mon May 31
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Can vaguely remember (I think) W Germany beating England at the 1970 World Cup. I was 4.
Also remember the US-USSR space station coupling in the early 70's. Was allowed to stay up and watch it iirc.
Haven't got a clue what happened yesterday mind.
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Darlo Debs
11:29 Mon May 31
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MMG same..can remember lyrics from.the 80s but regularly go into a room then forget what i went in for.
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Beckton Bill
11:31 Mon May 31
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When we signed the Paulo Futre
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westhammerer
11:42 Mon May 31
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Nixon, Ali-Foreman.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:45 Mon May 31
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Concord’s first commercial flight. Whole school went out to see it.
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charleyfarley
11:52 Mon May 31
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Cuba crisis 1962, was at school and the prospect of a nuclear war, pretty scary
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Mad Dog
11:55 Mon May 31
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Genuinely west ham in the fa cup final (4 years and 1 week old). Remember my mum pointing out my dad was there.
I remember bits of the parade next day.
Actual news item. John lennon getting shot. Because I thought the name lemon was funny and my mum corrected me and told me not to take the piss because he'd been killed (not the actual words she used)
Earliest actual memory. The morning after my sister was born. My parents left me a tractor in her cot as a present. I was 2
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norwaytips
11:55 Mon May 31
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Earliest clear memory I have, is the General Election of 1950. Only because my Father worked/volunteered for Clement Attlee, who was leader of the Labour Party and PM.
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Morpheus
11:56 Mon May 31
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The Great Storm of 87
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Mex Martillo
11:58 Mon May 31
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Cod wars for me!
Not sure why, but I was really impressed by the fishing boats and war ships in massive waves heading each other off. I can still see the news reel of it. Cannot remember any other stories so vividly.
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mallard
12:00 Tue Jun 1
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John Lennon getting shot
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Alex G
12:01 Tue Jun 1
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Not sure about news stories, but there was a big item on the news about how you shouldn't drink and drive. Very young me was very concerned that drivers would get very thirsty during their journeys.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:07 Tue Jun 1
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JFK
Death of Churchill
Aberfan
Obvs various cup finals and tv shows in between
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Leonard Hatred
12:08 Tue Jun 1
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Elvis.
I was 6.
I thought he was in the Sex Pistols.
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Mr Anon
12:22 Tue Jun 1
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Pan Am bombing, first time I remember a TV program being interrupted by news, a day before I was getting on a plane for the first time too.
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joe royal
12:24 Tue Jun 1
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Toss up between a moon rocket or a World Cup.
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ironsofcanada
12:25 Tue Jun 1
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Challenger disaster
Remember the jokes from the older kids on the bus (first or second year riding it) and told my parents, they were not impressed.
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gph
12:28 Tue Jun 1
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I thought it was the ManU Munich aircrash. But I was only 5 months old at the time.
Maybe it was a couple of years later, when something made my Mum cry about it.
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Grumpster
12:30 Tue Jun 1
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I barely give a shit about the news now, so am thinking I definitely didn't give a fuck back in the 80's.
Probably Lockerbie, Hungerford or Dunblane though I wouldn't have cared.
Probably should have been the Falklands as I would have been 7/8, but at that age things like that go over your head.
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