Desert storm has ended announcement on the radio in a garage in a car. I said what's desert storm and I don't think it was explained and life went on
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Clearly, like vividly? OKC bombing. Think was 10.
I vaguely remember desert storm missle strike clips. I remember staying up to watch the ball drop in 91. But anything else on tv in the early 90s that didn't involve mutant turtles, power rangers, Italian plumbers, or mortal kombat is a blank.
- 93 Bombay bomb blasts
- Kargil war
- Attack on Taj Bombay
Internationally
- Princess Diana's death
- Gulf war
- 9/11
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.
Reagan being shot
Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.
Honestly the earliest TV news memory I have is seeing heavy news coverage of John Lennon's murder.
Partially because I lived through it, the ‘89 earthquake. I specifically remember not having power and then everything turning back on after midnight and what the news looked like (more grainy than normal) because I was afraid of the dark and hadn’t been able to sleep.
2004 Tsunami in Thailand
Probably the one with politician being unable to differentiate a box of wine and box with money. Czechs will know.
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.
Desert Storm, in small part because my dad was in the AF and deployed to Saudi Arabia. It was pretty much all the news for the short amount of time that actual hostilities were occurring.
Either the first Donald Trump presidency or maybe a bit before that with the Eurozone crisis and the collapse of BES
Margaret Thatcher getting rid of milk snacks in schools. I grew up in a mining town, so from a very young age, I was acutely aware of how much everyone hated Thatcher. However, I just thought that people really liked milk, and that's why they hated "Margaret Thatcher the milk snatched". I don't like the taste of milk on its own, and I can remember being 3 or 4 years old and bemused by the intensity of feelings towards her — I guessed that people must really like milk
Edit: turns out that the milk removal was before my time
I don't remember the news, honestly. The biggest "news" I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.
Protestors stealing a tank and driving it out of a museum into the crowd (nobody got hurt) during the 2006 protests that were the foundation to the Orbán regime.
Olof Palme getting killed or the USSR attack submarine getting stuck on a mititary beach whichever came first.
Army public school attack in december 2014
The Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Easy, JFK's assassination. I was 4, came in from the yard and found my mom and a neighbor were sitting at the kitchen table, crying. I asked what was wrong, and she said someone had shot the president.
After that, I remember being irritated that all my favorite TV shows were blocked by news coverage for days.
I'm old enough I probably would remember 9/11 if I were American, but it wasn't a big enough thing here to stick in my head.
I do vaguely remember East Timor's independence the following year being a thing, and I remember the Iraq War (mainly because of all the opposition to it) from the year after that.
If it counts, I remember where I was on New Year's Eve 2000, too.
The inauguration of Barack Obama.
I remember not being able to get my dial up the day the Kenneth Starr commission came out about Clinton
