Yesterday marked 50 years since Apollo 1 and today marks 31 years since Space Shuttle Challenger. Someone started a thread about a week ago on pack pride that asked what is the first major news story you remember. I'm interested to what tww response is because the average age is a little younger.

I remember the Challenger explosion. I don't remember anything major that happened before that.

1/28/2017 12:51:14 PM

Same

1/28/2017 12:54:28 PM

I'm having a tough time recalling being aware of something the day it happened prior to...maybe the Oklahoma City Bombing. I know I was too young to remember the Exxon Valdez, but it hit the news for one reason or another for years after that.

1/28/2017 1:04:42 PM

fairly certain i'm one of the younger posters here and my answer will show that. the first two that come to mind are princess diana's death and the bill clinton/lewinsky scandal.

and those two events...i wasn't old enough to really know exactly what was going on or understand the importance of either event. i just have memories of people talking about it, my parents watching the news and these being topics that were talked about. but i was too young to understand it or really be aware of any of it beyond seeing the newspaper or hearing stuff on the news.

[Edited on January 28, 2017 at 1:21 PM. Reason : k]

1/28/2017 1:19:10 PM

mondale getting curb stomped by reagan 525 to 13

[Edited on January 28, 2017 at 1:56 PM. Reason : d]

1/28/2017 1:54:21 PM

Trump fucking Marla Maples while his wife and kids were at church. And I'm seriously not joking..

1/28/2017 1:56:50 PM

Berlin Wall falling

1/28/2017 2:50:00 PM

Operation desert storm in kindergarten '90

1/28/2017 3:12:36 PM

titanic sinking

1/28/2017 3:15:48 PM

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1/28/2017 5:07:31 PM

Oklahoma City bombings.

1/28/2017 5:12:35 PM

The things that really stuck out to me were the OJ Simpson police chase I saw live and also Princess Diana dying.

1/28/2017 5:14:13 PM

i member first time michael jackson did the moonwalk on tv

1/28/2017 5:28:40 PM

Hurricane Hugo. I vividly remember my mom and I under blankets on the living room floor watching news coverage on one of those little 6" TV/radios while my dad was outside recovering our window screens and deck furniture.

1/28/2017 6:03:16 PM

Vaguely remember the beginning of the Gulf War. I definitely have clear memories of Hurricane Andrew dominating the news as we lived in Florida at the time.

1/28/2017 7:36:25 PM

Operation desert storm for me. I remember seeing those nightvision videos of anti-aircraft guns shooting into the sky because they couldn't figure out what the fuck was hitting them.

I also remember asking my mom if dad was there in the war and she said no. Gave me a real concerned look when I asked that too, lol.

1/28/2017 7:51:59 PM

First one that comes to mind is Susan Smith ... the SC woman who claimed her car (with her sons inside) had been hijacked by a black man, but she had driven it into a lake.

1/28/2017 8:39:59 PM

Challenger explosion

1/28/2017 8:51:33 PM

Challenger was my first big one. I remember watching it in kindergarten.

1/28/2017 9:53:01 PM

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"Hurricane Hugo. I vividly remember my mom and I under blankets on the living room floor watching news coverage on one of those little 6" TV/radios while my dad was outside recovering our window screens and deck furniture."

I remember getting to eat cereal for like a week. It was pretty much the best week.

1/28/2017 11:13:33 PM

oj simpson trial, i think

[Edited on January 28, 2017 at 11:18 PM. Reason : oklahoma city bombings too. whichever was first. both were 1995 i think.]

1/28/2017 11:17:29 PM

John bene ramsay shit. My mom was totally invested in that case.

1/29/2017 5:42:56 AM

Correction: The Loma Prieta earthquake in '89 bc I felt it.

1/29/2017 7:56:50 AM

Reagan getting shot. Vaguely remember it.

That one and when Ric Flair and one of the Andersons jumped Roddy Piper while being interviewed by Gordon Solie.

It really had an impact on me.

1/29/2017 10:44:38 AM

I never knew all the details of that Susan Smith case.

So much sordid sex in that story. I mean, it's like every major investigation of some white crime reveals the same truth: white people are some horny motherfuckers.

You can alibi an entire neighborhood just by figuring who was fucking which wife or kid at the time of the murder.

1/29/2017 11:57:41 AM

someone make an app for that

1/29/2017 12:03:36 PM

I remember this girl fallen in a pipe and a small army of people getting her out alive

1/29/2017 12:14:46 PM

that was "Baby Jessica"

1/29/2017 12:18:37 PM

yeah they said she had done a split in the pipe, and dug a hole next to it

1/29/2017 12:29:49 PM

^^^^It's not surprising, but there's even more sex after her incarceration, too!

This stuff is so mundane, but it feels so lurid, too. Like, she had to get treated for an STD in prison, which triggered a whole, full-blown who-had-sex-with-Susan investigation--all serious-like and everything.

And, at this point, I'm positive that her stepfather visited her in prison to do it with her.

Also, that rich dude she killed her kids for admitted that he didn't mind it when she messed around at the hot tub parties, but he had to end their relationship when she started having sex with his father.


Just for fun...the stepfather, who openly molested her, was a a prominent local Republican fundraiser who championed family values and prayer in schools. When she was 15, he agreed to get counseling for his molestation problem and promptly continued having sex with her. The preachers and their ilk must throw the best orgies.

[Edited on January 29, 2017 at 12:34 PM. Reason : ]

1/29/2017 12:32:31 PM

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"I remember this girl fallen in a pipe and a small army of people getting her out alive"

LMAO, Midland/Odessa checking in.

1/29/2017 12:44:39 PM

Desert Storm

1/29/2017 12:47:20 PM

JonBenét Ramsey was another really early one that sticks out to me

1/29/2017 4:26:18 PM

clinton beating bush.

I take that back, it was desert storm. I remember watching the explosions on TV

i have a bad memory

[Edited on January 30, 2017 at 9:42 AM. Reason : .]

1/30/2017 9:41:08 AM

I remember State winning the national championship, and my father putting a bible on top of the television in our shag-carpet covered living room before the game. And I remember him and my brother praying in the front yard, on their knees, during half time (keep in mind that neither were ever religious, and we NEVER went to church).

And I remember Reagan winning the 84 election by a landslide.

1/30/2017 10:16:40 AM

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"Hurricane Hugo."

Definitely this. I remember my family being super concerned and having no idea what any of it meant at the time. Can't think of anything I remember prior to that.

1/30/2017 10:31:52 AM

Randolph Childress destroying UNC in the ACCT Final

1/30/2017 10:54:18 AM

first stories i remember being discussed were invading panama and the berlin wall coming down. the first story i really gave any attention or had any kind of vague understanding about was the persian gulf war

1/30/2017 11:14:20 AM

Challenger

and i remember them talking about Nicaragua on the news all the time.

[Edited on January 30, 2017 at 11:34 AM. Reason : ]

1/30/2017 11:33:47 AM

My wife and I were just talking about the Challenger yesterday. I was in first grade, and by all rights I should have been watching the broadcast just like every other kid in the country, but for the life of me I don't remember seeing it explode except in after-the-fact newscasts. I do remember the collective excitement before and the collective grief afterward but if I actually saw it realtime, my mind blocked it out or something.

After that, I remember the Iran-Contra affair being in the news, though I didn't really know what it was about (still a bit hazy honestly). The next Concrete Event that's clear in my memory would be the '88 Election. Dad voted for Dukakis and mom for Bush.

1/30/2017 12:36:08 PM

Desert Storm.


I remember Hugo too, but i also slept through it as it came through our area. I didn't really know how big of an impact it had.

1/30/2017 12:53:59 PM

Evel Knievel trying to jump the Snake River Canyon.

1/30/2017 3:14:24 PM

Challenger for me as well.

My aunt lived in Orlando and watched it fly from her backyard and told my mom about it seeing it break apart. But I think we watched coverage of it at preschool or some shit.

[Edited on January 30, 2017 at 7:10 PM. Reason : ]

1/30/2017 7:09:47 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_modern_history#1980s

'84 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983-1985_famine_in_Ethiopia
'84 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
'84 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi

'85 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev

'86 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
'86 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
'86 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir
'86 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet
'86 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos
'86 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme

'87 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Intifada
'87 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

'88 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
'88 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
'88 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel
'88 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_HW_Bush
'88 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq

'89 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
'89 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_Massacre
'89 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito
'89 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
'89 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill

1/31/2017 6:22:10 AM

we can all google

which of those is the first news story you remember?

1/31/2017 9:44:25 AM

I vaguely remember Desert Storm reporting.

1/31/2017 9:49:20 AM

^^ Well, since I gave the years for each, the earliest in the list are the earliest I remember.

From the three in 1984, the assassination of Indira Gandhi is the one I remember the most acutely, whereas the famine was on the TV and in my newspaper with horrific pics of dying children weekly for years, so that was a chronic thing for which I can't remember the exact day when it started.

I just thought it would be interesting for me to put all the major news events I remember from the 80's, at least the ones from that Wiki page, as that would jog others' memories as well, and others can go to the Wiki page and look for themselves if they remember anything other/earlier than the Challenger

I saw a teachable moment and jumped on it

1/31/2017 11:02:12 AM

1/31/2017 11:24:12 AM

I was sitting in a barber's chair when I heard that Desert Storm had started.

1/31/2017 11:34:35 AM

I remember settin' them up

1/31/2017 2:37:16 PM