What was the first big news event you remember as a kid?

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I would have to say 9/11. It could have been something before 9/11 but that was the biggest one I can remember as a kid.

exitseven · Accepted Answer

I can remember the first energy crisis in 1974. I was a little kid but I remember going to the Texaco station with my father and waiting in line to get gas for our Ford station wagon.

Static_In_The_Attic · Accepted Answer

1993 World Trade Center Bombing, The Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 & also the Murder Trial Of J Simpson 1995.

NathanDavis · Answer

my father is a very smart man... also in business, he also always liked to talk to me sometimes as if I were not the kid that I was, lol

it was January of 1994, and the NAFTA deal had just kicked in... my father told me, it's time for you to learn a little bit about "money", I liked math, so... living in the border between two countries also meant that money exchange was a daily thing... from dollars to pesos, and he said I need to learn and understand because things might get a bit rocky, and then yes

few months later... the entire economy of Mexico collapsed, and a whole lot of things changed forever and our whole lives changed as well, 1994, 1996, 1998... growing up on both sides and witnessing the collapse and ruin of so many lives, or ways of life... and just so consumerism, which reigns today... had it much better for a few billionaires and trillionaires today

that was "big news" for our region, at least

Zack-Bann · Answer

I was barely 4 years old but it’s 9/11 for me too

I don’t live in the US but my dad was there at the time

He even took a flight from NYC to Boston just one day before the attack
We have no way to confirm it but it’s possible he was on one of the planes that later got high jacked

I remember my mother watching the news an sitting by the phone waiting for him to call and say he’s ok

He was. And later came home, and never went back to the US after that
(My mom was too scared to let him…)

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

The space shuttle Challenger exploding shortly after takeoff in 1986. Our skool had just acquired televisions for every classroom, connected to a network of educational stations and news outlets. We were watching the event live as Christa McAuliffe made her historic ascent to be the first teacher and, i think, first civilian in space. We were going to get to watch her deliver a lesson from orbit, and we were on the list of skools she might have visited upon return to talk about what she learned as well as the importance of kids being more invested in the sciences and technology. Watching the explosion was so unbelievable as to feel surreal. I had never felt that way before and wouldn’t again until i saw the airplane fly into the south tower live on the news on September 11, 2001.

sage2021 · Answer

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
I was about 6 or 7 and they showed him getting shot in the car. We didn't have color TV because I remember they showed black and white TV about the entire thing for weeks!
I was too young to see that every day and it gave me terrifying nightmares.
I would dream President Kennedy was under my bed and was going to reach his arms out and grab me with his arms. I still remember those nightmares.

katiesmuff · Answer

Being born in 83 and likely not paying much attention to news until maybe 93 at the earliest my best guess like you would be 9/11 which I would expect even 5 yr old's on that date will forever remember that event.

Would love to see this question repeated10 years from now and see the remarks! LOL

ariadneR · Answer

Challenger exploding. I remember watching it on the TV and eating cereal.

After that, it's probably the aberlin Wall coming down. My mum status in front of the TV and said, you are watching this. It's history, and I want you to see it with your own eyes

Abbycado · Answer

It was small news. It was about a man that never grew out of a child’s body. ☹️

Lliam · Answer

I don't know. I wasn't that into the news when I was a kid. Maybe it was Sputnik. I would have only been 3 years old, but it was big news.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Chernobyl, like probably all kids born in the 80s, all EU kids in fact

itsannalee · Answer

That there was prediction that apocalypse happen in 1999 🤭😅

TrueConfection · Answer

The Berlin Wall being torn down, Mary Lou Retton in the Olympics, and the Challenger exploding.

lightbulb27 · Answer

Vietnam war ending in a terrible pullout. I asked my father "who won". His expression and response said it all...

sawno · Answer

Probably the flooding of the docks. I remember saint nicholas (dutch version) needing boots to walk the dock.

Anonymous · Answer

A fire at a nightclub here in my country. In a city 45 minutes away from me. A lot of people died and hundreds were injured. I remember hearing about it and talking to my mom and grandmother about it. I was 7.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Pres. Kennedy's murder. It SHOULD'VE been his winning the election but, I don't remember that and was still too young to even know what a president was.

UrLoveMocha · Answer

I was at school watching kids rapping to TI’s “whatever you like” about Obama and then shortly after he won.

beenherebefore · Answer

When I visited my mom in the Hospital after she had my little brother. I also remember 9/11 really well.

MikeTheBartender · Answer

First WTC bombing. I was in 4th grade or so in NYC.

Sal_Monella · Answer

1. The Bay of Pigs kerfuffle. 2. The Cuban missile crisis 3. The assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK.

Twalli · Answer

I didn't fully understand it, but the Monica Lewinski scandal.

Shiprex · Answer

John lennon being shot. Terrorism in Northern Ireland. Jimmy Carter as us President. Strikes by city workers

HawkPerception · Answer

When Google was created in 1998. Can't believe how far we've come since.

queenofcardio · Answer

We had a big city wide blackout. I thnk it was in 99

Bricealan · Answer

@simslover92 Cannot recall the first major news even I heard as a kid?

dudeinohio · Answer

When south Vietnam was taken over by North Vietnam.

robocop666 · Answer

easy 911. I spent the whole day watching the news. Oddly for a guy who spent a whole day there was no mention of building 7

AgentG111 · Answer

Things I remember at home and in school, challenger explosion, Olympic hostages Reagan getting shot Mount St Helens earthquakes.

Darkest-Knight · Answer

Attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

David318578 · Answer

Space shuttle explosion, we where watching it in class

Grond21 · Answer

Bill Clinton's election was the first, or maybe the OJ Simpson trial

Chrytina84 · Answer

I was about 1 when the Colombian disaster happened.

pinkmochi · Answer

A big financial crisis and problems that hit my country in 2013.

BADGER44 · Answer

OIL EMBARGO. GAS LINES LIMITED TO GAS WE COULD GET...

BCRanger10 · Answer

Probably Richard Nixon dying.

DJB72 · Answer

Challenger. Watched the launch live.

rebelsunshine · Answer

The whole Tonya Harding / Nancy Kerrigan scandal

On_cloud_wine · Answer

When Princess Diane died

Xawyx-2 · Answer

It was about about some plane crash.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

The nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.

jazzy34 · Answer

Princess Diana’s death.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

My uncle died in that 😔😔😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

MannMitAntworten · Answer

The death of John Wayne.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

The OJ Simpson chase.

noohair · Answer

JFK assassination.

ABC1x1x · Answer

MTV.

Slim57 · Answer

Same as you

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