This topic was randomly on my mind today so I thought I'd throw it out to BuzzJack!

I've had a long think and I'm pretty sure Queen Elizabeth II's golden jubilee is the first event I can actually remember at the time. This was February 2002 so I would've been 4 years old. I mostly recall it because we were given commemorative coins at school for the occasion!

I was quite sheltered from the news until I was a little bit older so the first event I remember seeing on the TV was a couple of years later. This was the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. I can recall the mood shifting from a household of Christmas cheer to a more sombre atmosphere when we saw those harrowing images over the following days :(

What about you?

I remember Charles and Diana being in the news often when I was very little. I was 8 years old when Diana died and that was the first ‘remember exactly where you were’ moment I experienced.

9/11 definitely.

Princess Diana's death I think.

I think it was Princess Diana's death when I was 4/5, It must have interrupted Teletubbies at the time x

I do also have quite clear memories of several early 2000s stories, obviously 9/11 but also the Queen Mother's Death, Brazil vs England at the world cup and Japanese tsunami. The 7/7 Bombings felt like the first major news story I felt right in the centre of living in London.

I was around 10 yo when the IRA ceasefire was announced which was a big deal in NI and it seemed like things did change from that point despite taking time and it still being ongoing to this day.

I also main remembered football events under the age of 10 so remember Liverpool winning the fa cup in 1992 and watching it on tv.

I actually also remember news of Diana's death coming up on TV, that's my first memory of the news. Don't remember everything but I think a bunch of my relatives were there and they were all talking about it. I was 6 years old and still living in Estonia.

Merapi volcano eruption, October 2010. Almost the entire Java island were "snowing."

and in the sports/celebrities scene, obviously Marco Simoncelli's death in Sepang. He just had his 2nd MotoGP podium a week prior.

Even though I was alive for Diana's death I do not remember it all. I'd say the earliest news story I can remember is 9/11, I was 9 years old and remember coming home from school to it being all over the TV.

Would definitely say Princess Diana's death even if i didnt really understand the magnitude being only 6 years old

I was alive for 9/11 but too young to remember it at all. The first thing that came to mind was the 2010 General Election as my parents had it on at home in the morning and then they put it on at school for a bit as well. Looking through 'news events of the 00s' sites the only thing I can remember that marginally beats that was the death of Michael Jackson if that counts!

12 minutes ago, PeteFromLeeds said:

the only thing I can remember that marginally beats that was the death of Michael Jackson if that counts!

Of course!

I was technically alive when Princess Diana died, but only 3 weeks old, so MJ dying felt like the first monumental death of a famous person I can recall too.

I remember my primary school doing a whole thing for the Jubilee in 2002 but I was oblivious to what was going on.

I was aware of the big football tournaments since the 2002 World Cup though.

In terms of a big news thing, I'm thinking Michael Jackson's death in 2009 (the day after I turned 12).

With regards to the events mentioned above - I remember even as a 13yo Diana’s death was a huge shock, albeit even then o didn’t like the monarchy as a head of state but my biggest annoyance was that the Liverpool game was abandoned 😂. I was raging!!

I also remember viewing my first uni flat when 9/11 occurred.

Remember MJs death well as was living with my mates post uni and remember the songs being on non stop on mtv and in the charts/radio.

For me it was the Aberfan disaster in 1966. I started a thread about it for the 50th anniversary.

Aberfan anniversary - The Lounge - BuzzJack Music Forum

It will be the 60th anniversary in October, and I'm sure it will be another emotional day for me.

A fair chunk of primary school has been lost to the void, the first news story I can remember is 9/11 (when I was nearly 11).

7/7 I was off school sick, so I remember that being basically the only option on TV. 14 year old me was horrified that day, you really feel for everyone impacted by these things with such intensity when your whole focus is pretty much channelled to it (14 year old me really felt like the world was such a terrible place while watching that 😔).

I think mine was also Princess Diana death. I was 8 at the time and I’m not sure I remember the first major news story before that.

I remember things like 9/11, Ian Huntley/Holly & Jessica, Tsunami, Madeline McCann so vividly too. But I think I was old enough to become more aware of what was actually going on/would see the front pages of newspapers and my parents having the news on etc..

MOON LANDING IN 1969. Was about midnight our time but we were all herded in to hall next morning, was 9, to watch it in school on old B&W TV.

19 hours ago, Juranamo said:

A fair chunk of primary school has been lost to the void, the first news story I can remember is 9/11 (when I was nearly 11).

7/7 I was off school sick, so I remember that being basically the only option on TV. 14 year old me was horrified that day, you really feel for everyone impacted by these things with such intensity when your whole focus is pretty much channelled to it (14 year old me really felt like the world was such a terrible place while watching that 😔).

Yeah same, no matter how bad things seem to get these days nothing has ever even come close to 7/7 from a domestic perspective. Other than perhaps the Manchester arena bombing.

9/11 is the first international one for me. The murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in Soham in 2002 being the first British one I can remember.