I actually remember seeing Haley's Comet. I want to live long enough to blah blah blah, but really I just wanna see that stupid thing again before I go. Feels like a decent bookend, ya know?

Mount St. Helens.

911

For myself that would be 9/11. I remember being confused when the teacher put it on the tv. Thought we were watching an action movie.

Middle East wars (which doesn’t really pin down a timeframe)

ERA (which does)

Although I lived through others I think I was to young to remember them or caring. So for me it was the OJ trial since they legit announced it overhead at our school which was weird thinking back on it. After that would be 911.

When the Berlin Wall came down

Probably the Iranian Revolution.

I dislike that my brain went with Milli Vanilli and not something like the berlin wall...

The beating of Rodney King. I was very young, maybe 6, and didn't understand why they had to beat that man.

Now I do understand. And it's pretty shitty.

The opening weeks of Star Wars, fans lined up around the block, many seeing it again and again and again. Some had seen it dozens of times. I was shocked.

Sister took me when I was 6. All I remember was eating lunch in the breakfast room, parents asking, "WELL? How was it?!" "OK I guess." LOL, was not impressed in the moment, turned into a fairly rabid fan for a couple of decades.

NYC blackout was a couple of months later. Not that I had a clue what was happening, but it was all over the news. My Silent Gen parents shielded me from their racism best they could, but I remember mom commenting on the rioting, "Oh, those BUH-LACKS!"

I remember OJ’s Bronco on the news. I would have been 6yo. I also remember OK City Bombing a year later. Mostly just the wanted poster sketch, honestly. Then I don’t remember much news until Princess Diana’s death.

After that I remember a lot of news stories.

Michael Jackson’s hair catching fire.

The first major story where I thought "oh noes" was the Canary Wharf bombing in 1996ish. It was the first time I'd ever seen a "we interrupt this broadcast..." moment and it was so out of the ordinary that it sticks in my mind.

9/11 was a wild ride too. Getting home from school and my old man - who never watched the news - had Sky News on. At that point, the replays seemed... incredible, in the most literal sense of the word.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I remember seeing Yasser Arafat on TV.

The picture is Walter Cronkite, but I couldn't tell you what he's reporting on here. Best guess is JFK assassination, just because that's probably the most famous thing.

I think for me, it would be the Fukushima catastrophe. I was 8 at the time and I remember my school doing a donation event for it.

Challenger and Chernobyl, as they happened within a few months.The shape of the Challenger cloud will be forever seered into my brain. And after Chernobyl we had to seek cover immediately when it started to rain and weren't allowed to play on grass, I'll always remember that sense of unease. We also had two young kids from the Ukraine in our home for a while. Thinking back on that I feel so bad for them. They were so far from home and communication only worked through a paper dictionary. They didn't shower for a while because they were told water was very expensive. Somehow their hovercraft was full of eels.

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.

9.11, I remember questioning as a kid why they bombed iraq afterwards when it was already clear it wasn't their doing.

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.

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.

Elvis Presley’s death.

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

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Last manned moon landing.