911
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.
It’s Walter Cronkite reporting on Kennedy’s assassination. I’m not American, but I’ve seen it often enough now to know this.
Last manned moon landing.
9-11 coverage and the second plane live on TV in elementary school
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.
Why would such a think be announced at school?
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.
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.
The inauguration of Barack Obama.
Middle East wars (which doesn’t really pin down a timeframe)
ERA (which does)
I don’t remember the news, honestly. The biggest “news” I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.
Early 1970s, I was around 6yo, hearing a discussion on the news about black civil rights and understanding it was logical and right.
I remember not being able to get my dial up the day the Kenneth Starr commission came out about Clinton
OJ
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.
Army public school attack in december 2014
The first moon landing
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.
