The PM dying. They've interrupted Duck Tales for that shit, the bastards!

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.

I think mine is the JonBenet Ramsey case. I lived in Colorado and I just remember seeing her picture on the news over and over and over. It's a very very early memory so I don't remember much else at all.

I vaguely remember Princess Diana's death, I think. I remember when Michael Jordan retired - but honestly that might be more to do with Space Jam than anything else.

And then 911 is the next big one.

Olof Palme getting killed or the USSR attack submarine getting stuck on a mititary beach whichever came first.

• 93 Bombay bomb blasts
• Kargil war
• Attack on Taj Bombay

Internationally

• Princess Diana's death
• Gulf war
• 9/11

Selenas death or OJ trial. Can’t remember which one was first?

Bush Sr's war on Iraq. Rodney king. I was also acutely aware of Ross Perot, because I had an impression I would do where my sibling would put their bare feet on the side of my head to be his ears.

5 October 1974: Guildford pub bombings: IRA bombs exploded in two pubs frequented by off-duty British military personnel. Four soldiers and a civilian were killed and 44 injured.

Prob Rodney King. I was just old enough to know what was going on.

Very vague memories of the berlin wall being torn down as presented by mtv. I was like 6.

I remember it all over tv. All these alternative punk kids.

And I was so confused why there was a big ass wall covered in graffiti in the middle of the city and also why it was an issue.

Early 1970s, I was around 6yo, hearing a discussion on the news about black civil rights and understanding it was logical and right.

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.

I remember seeing a story about a bombing in Lisbon (Portugal) and being concerned because I had an Aunt in Lisbon (Ohio)

I think Wałęsa winning presidential elections. But I just kind of remember it happening and people talking about it, not actually seeing it on TV. It's really hard to say what was the first live broadcast I remember. Fire in shipyard in Gdańsk happened in 1994, so when I was 10, but there was a song about it so maybe I remember it from the music video and not news from the day?

Elvis Presley’s death.

Great question! The very earliest story I can vaguely summon up at the moment was about a hurricane devastating the city of La Paz in Baja California Sur, from Mexican news on television. To pin down any details, I had to look it up, and came up with Hurricane Liza in 1976.

There was an image that got seared into my brain at the time, but it was probably my very young mind playing tricks on me, watching this report on one of those old, old, OLD small and blurry black-and-white televisions: the image of a dead baby lying face down among the rubble.

EDIT: That was a bummer, let me try again with a much more positive mind-blowing blast-from-the-past that might make some of you go - "Damn... yeah, deep pull, man!"...

How about the Montreal Olympics, particularly and spectacularly, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci! I also remember one specific moment of the closing ceremonies, doves being released as Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" was playing at full blast at the Stadium Olympique!

Berlin wall for sure. Earlier major events like Tchernobyl, famine in Ethiopia or the death of Coluche (iconic French comedian, pretty big thing in France), I mostly remember my parents reaction and discussions at home.

Honestly the earliest TV news memory I have is seeing heavy news coverage of John Lennon's murder.

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

Just realized what the second question in the topic is asking. I believe Walter Cronkite is reporting ~the assassination of JFK.~

Edit:No, wait, I think that's Apollo 11, the moon landing.

OJ

2004 Tsunami in Thailand

Vague recollection of Rodney King & the LA Riots. After that would be the Northridge earthquake, because it woke me up.

It was a weird childhood, I was 8 when Obama was installed as president. I remember people talking about George Bush Jr and the wars he started in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda. Big gap in between Obama's presidency and then 2012 shooting of Sandy Hook. And abt every school shooting of the 2010s after that sadly. Also I really want to vote for Mitt Romney but I was 12 and brainwashed by my parents. Now that I'm on a form of obamacare I don't remember any issues with him. I would re-elect for a third term

Last manned moon landing.

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.

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.

Probably the one with politician being unable to differentiate a box of wine and box with money. Czechs will know.

I don't remember the news, honestly. The biggest "news" I can remember in earnest was the release of Halo: CE, lol.

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