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[spidertea]

What is the first news event you remember?
For example, when I was in kindergarten, I remember the Challenger Explosion. I also remember Baby Jessica trapped in the well, I'm not sure which happened first.

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[letitshine]

sweet.

[letitshine]

ok for real, my first memory was of my 4th bday getting a banana seat bike with a unicorn and rainbow on it. I also fished in the bath tub with my new fushing pole that day...

anyways, I understand that may not qualify as a "major news event" but I thought it was totally rad...

I remember jacob wetterling getting kidnapped. hurricane andrew. etc.

[arturis]

I'm going to go with the challenger explosion, though my brain isn't really organized chronologically. There may be earlier things that I have memories of but they aren't classified in my brain as earlier.

I remember telling really morbid jokes about the challenger explosion and I actually remember those jokes better than many I've heard since:

What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts!

What color were Christa McAuliffe's eyes? Blue - one blew this way and one blew that way.

How do they know the Challenger crew had dandruff? The found head and shoulders all over the beach!

[lost1]

Probably the 1984 election. We had a mock election at our school, and I remember voting for Reagan because I liked his last name better than Mondale.

(I was 6, what the hell did I know?)

[spidertea]

That is really funny, because in 2nd grade we had a mock election. Every single kid in my class voted for Bush Sr. except me. (Probably because I lived in a hillbilly town and they heard their hick parents talking about gun control, etc..) The teacher asked me (kind of harshly) 'Why did you vote for Dukakis?!' and I said, 'Because I like the name Dukakis.'
Guess we had similar logic as kids.

[yourdesertrose]

I remember the Yellowstone fires and the cloud of smoke that made everything look all hazy.