Earliest memory of a world event you can remember?

Live Aid. I must've remembered that. 1985 wasn't it?

Although I must have been very young, Aberfan made a huge impression on me.

The Great Storm of 1987 - I remember that.

We were in morning assembly at my junior school when the roof of a building opposite blew off and crashed through the hall windows.

No-one was hurt. At least that's how I remember it. Perhaps there were multiple fatalities - all I know is that we all got sent home and the school was shut for a couple of days.

Good times.

JKLever wrote:
Whats yours?

Apollo XI landing in the Sea of Tranquility.

Apollo Creed beating Rocky Balboa on points (1976).

Rob I wrote:

JKLever wrote:
Whats yours?

Apollo XI landing in the Sea of Tranquility.

Good Goldie tune. '97 if I remember correctly. Ah, Drum 'n' Bass was kicking off... well a couple of years after Bukem had got it sorted anyway... good times..

I know what my earliest world event memory was: ET - the extra testicle (1982)

I would've been six. I remember seeing it at the cinema.

No, Superman II was (1981) in UK cinemas. I definitely saw that.

Oh, I don't know. I can't remember what I did yesterday, let alone many moons ago...

"Off the caffeine bruh" © Richard Blackwood, 1999.

Strangely I cant remember the first Star Wars film, never became a Star Wars nerd till Empire strikes back.

The antics of the Yorkshire Ripper scared me throughout the later 70's, and so did the Iranian Embassy Siege cos my brother said it was going to trigger a nuclear war.
But he also told me that blood oranges had real blood in them.......

I remember a mass Mods v Rockers battle on Clacton beach.

I'm not sure it counts as a world event but the hurricane in 87 (?). Beingpicked up in a car from school when I lived 5 minute walk away from it...

I think I have vague recollections of Hillsborough and Lockerbie

I slept right through the 1987 storms, didn't hear a thing....

Rob I wrote:

JKLever wrote:
Whats yours?

Apollo XI landing in the Sea of Tranquility.

That was filmed in a back lot of the Paramount Studios in Hollywood ...
why do you think they wore bronze non see thru sun visors?
Correct ! To hide the identity of the actors playing Armstrong and the other fella, whilst the tin can floated around the earth.

Honest guv'nor.

You can't have slept through all of it - it carried on well into the morning.

Like I said - blew my school's roof off while we were all in it.

Dello wrote:You can't have slept through all of it - it carried on well into the morning.

Like I said - blew my school's roof off while we were all in it.

Lazy sod is Lever ... a good blow going on and he sleeps through it!

Dello wrote:You can't have slept through all of it - it carried on well into the morning.

Like I said - blew my school's roof off while we were all in it.

Honestly, woke up in the morning to be told no school today.

Don't remember it being that bad after 9am as I remember us going outside to survey the damage

It were very windy and really messed my hair up.

The OJ Simpson trial.

Earliest sporting event I can remember - watching Nottingham Forest beat Luton Town in the 1959 FA Cup Final. (Elton John's uncle broke his leg).

Earliest political event - my father swearing at the TV when it showed the results of the 1959 General Election the morning after polling day (the Conservatives won handily).

The memories are a little hazy but I was only 37yo at the time!

taipan wrote:JFK

I remember the 'who shot JR?' episode more.

Allan D wrote:Earliest sporting event I can remember - watching Nottingham Forest beat Luton Town in the 1959 FA Cup Final. (Elton John's uncle broke his leg).

Earliest political event - my father swearing at the TV when it showed the results of the 1959 General Election the morning after polling day (the Conservatives won handily).

The memories are a little hazy but I was only 37yo at the time!

You were a late developer then?!

Aathma wrote:The OJ Simpson trial.

Have we the youngest member of the forum here?

LLL's a teeny, isn't he? 19 or something.

Dello wrote:LLL's a teeny, isn't he? 19 or something.

Aye, though as a student he's unlikely to actually remember yesterday