What is the first news story you remember?

[baba_booey 4,302]

Obama getting elected in 2008. Didn't really watch the news much as a kid, but I remember it being a pretty exciting night, even though 7 year old me didn't understand what was going on (the first time I even heard the phrase "running for president" I thought it meant there was going to be a literal race to become president)

[Thuja 3,659]

I think the one that really stuck with me was when 9/11 happened.  I remember missing the bus so my mom took me to school, I remember when she was signing me in everyone had their eyes glued on the tv.  The office secretary absent-mindedly told me to go to class while she was watching the plane fly into the building, my mom stayed in the office to watch the news.  Every class I passed was watching the news, they were all completely quiet.  I was confused as I went to class, I think I was in the 4th or 5th grade at the time.

[Victoria Sponge 1,017]

9/11 I think. I was three and didn't really understand what was going on.

[碇 シンジン 27,431]

i think it was 9/11 though i dont really know what i thought of it back then

[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,259]

The first news story that I remember was the 2000 United States presidential election and how Florida had to do a ton of recounts of the votes because it was nearly a tie between G.W. Bush and Al Gore. 

[CoconutCake 360]

Probably 9/11 since it was obviously a huge deal. I was 8.

I got let out of school early, and my parents were freaking out. Didn’t really know what to think of it, though.

[MangoFoalix 24,961]

god, maybe 9/11? I really don't know

[TheOpticsDuck 189]

I think it should be something about the Yugoslav wars in the late 1990s. The neighbors had too much fun and the western overlords decided to finish off the country.

I remember seeing 911 on TV, I was playing Red Alert 2 at the time.
This map, so added cutscene benefits.
 

Spoiler

 

The first news story I was following was pretty much the US+ and pretty much all their satellites vs Iraq invasion.
It made me watch CNN a lot back in the day. I honestly expected Saddam to put up a better defense. For some reason like in Gulf War 1,
they didn't dig in the cities where they pretty much had their only chance to slow their enemies down. 

 

[Brobot 1,436]

Michel Jackson dying 

[dead account 2,710]

When Mike Tyson bit off a part of Evander Holyfield's ear. I was 5 years old when it happened.

[Tom Gallagher 33,588]

Obama getting elected and Michael Jackson passing. 

[The Kaeya Simp 13,988]

The Libyan part of the Arab spring (I just remember the protests and waving the current flag)

I would have been 6

 

The first one I remember more vividly was the start of the Syrian Civil War, I remember the protests and them very quickly descending into an absolutely brutal war

Would have between 6-7

[TBD 17,254]

It was a new about 9/11. My school made an announcement on it- I remember hearing something about a bombing incident. 

[DubWolf 17,263]

I remember it had to do with Bill Clinton (probably 1998-1999). The scandal? I forget. I think it was different.

 

It’s weird thinking about it; Bill Clinton was president. That was ages ago  .