Dee ([info]spidertea) wrote,
@ 2007-07-11 21:36:00
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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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[info]therightwaye
2007-07-12 03:40 am UTC (link)
I remember watching the Berlin Wall fall.

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[info]elenfair
2007-07-12 04:41 am UTC (link)
The Mount St. Helen's eruption of May 1980. I remember we were in our car on our way to my grandparents' place in New Brunswick, and I was in my carseat in the back... and there was talk about the volcanic activity on the radio.

I remember mention of the volcano (I knew what one was and what it meant) and that the event took place in the United States. I remember being worried that this could affect my grandparents. They lived right across from there! (Edmundston, NB is right across "the bridge" to Madawaska, ME! which, in my recently-turned-two-years-of-age brain meant "The United States" at the time.)

What is really cool is that I confirmed this is an actual memory and not one that others remembered (that was later fed to me and that I remember by proxy). I re-told it to my parents who confirmed the time and place and went "oh god, I can't believe you would remember that...!" ;)

My dad recalls that I insisted on an explanation of two things: a) a geography lesson because this whole "US" thing bothered me and b) a quick Volcanoes-and-You lesson , the toddler-friendly version, in a nutshell.

No, I wasn't exactly a normal kid, but you knew that already ;)

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[info]letitshine
2007-07-12 05:49 am UTC (link)
sweet.

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[info]letitshine
2007-07-12 05:46 am UTC (link)
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.

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[info]arturis
2007-07-12 07:06 am UTC (link)
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!

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[info]lost1
2007-07-12 04:42 pm UTC (link)
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?)

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[info]spidertea
2007-07-13 11:20 pm UTC (link)
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.

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[info]yourdesertrose
2007-07-12 08:55 pm UTC (link)
I remember the Yellowstone fires and the cloud of smoke that made everything look all hazy.

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[info]jamesbean
2007-07-13 09:10 pm UTC (link)
I was going to say the challenger exploding, but I was in the library watching the launch in my gradeschool...I don't recall anything about baby jessica though.

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[info]emogirl_7
2007-07-14 09:01 pm UTC (link)
i remember getting bitten by this orange cat i used to love to chase around when i was 3 in missouri. i think that might be my first memory.

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[info]davedash
2007-07-15 04:34 pm UTC (link)
The terrorist attacks of 9/11

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