Greatest news stories of your lifetime?

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Flight MH370.

Am I getting too broad for this thread?

Oh yes, another great story.

Not too broad at all, it's interesting (to me) how we all choose differently.

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Death of Princess Diana.

I have to stop, I'll be here all day.

That's the idea though, & the essence of it - you can only choose three.

[EssexPhil]

These are the 3 News stories that immediately spring to mind. Not the definitive 3 "biggest"-but ones that stick in my mind. In date order:-

1. The 1970 World Cup. It had pretty much everything. Quite possibly the best English team ever. In Brazil, quite possibly the best team ever. Great football, scandal...

2. The Miners Strike. The impact on our economy cannot be underestimated. From the Unions, to the abandonment of Heavy Industry and whole Communities, to the posturing of 2 rather similar people in Thatcher and Scargill

3. 9/11. Just got home with my Wife and new-born 2nd child. Went upstairs, turned on the Computer, and watched with a mixture of fascination and horror

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OJ mtfkin Simpson!

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OJ mtfkin Simpson!

Oh my, yes. Absolute classic.

[EssexPhil]

Knock, knock
Who's there?
OJ
OJ who?
You can be on the Jury

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These are the 3 News stories that immediately spring to mind. Not the definitive 3 "biggest"-but ones that stick in my mind. In date order:-

1. The 1970 World Cup. It had pretty much everything. Quite possibly the best English team ever. In Brazil, quite possibly the best team ever. Great football, scandal...

2. The Miners Strike. The impact on our economy cannot be underestimated. From the Unions, to the abandonment of Heavy Industry and whole Communities, to the posturing of 2 rather similar people in Thatcher and Scargill

3. 9/11. Just got home with my Wife and new-born 2nd child. Went upstairs, turned on the Computer, and watched with a mixture of fascination and horror

1970 World Cup - was that when there was the Bobby Moore Bogota bracelet thing?

Miner's strike. What a memory. Hard to imagine Mr Scargill & Lady Thatcher agreeing on a single thing whilst sat across a negotiating table. Real immovable force meets immovable object stuff. We had electricity on ration, 3 days on, 3 days off (or was it hours?) if memory not deceiving me? Imagine that happening now. WOT, NO TELLY?

[EssexPhil]

The Bobby Moore bracelet thing.
The Banks wonder save, and the extraordinary sportsmanship from Pele afterwards
The mystery of why Banks missed the Quarters, and the unfair treatment of Bonetti and Ramsey
Jairzinho. Carlos Alberto. Inspired a lifetime love of Sport

Scargill always believed he was the opposite side of the same coin as Thatcher. He was. Similar strengths. And similar weaknesses

[Kev B]

The troubles in Ireland. Scary time for our family as we had 2 soldiers (my Uncles) over there at the height of the conflict.

[Enut]

Greatest news stories?

The Bible
The Quran
The Tanakh

Or are we not including works of fiction?

In my lifetime my top 3 would be -

9/11
The death of Diana
The SAS ending the Iranian Embassy siege  

All of those kept me rivetted to the TV for hours

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OK. This is my 3 in reverse order.

Post Office scandal. I mean, what the actual fuck?

911. Watching it unfold as it happened. The entire world came to a standstill. Everyone everywhere was glued to a screen, any screen, totally gobsmacked. The aftermath produced a thousand stories of tragedy and heroism. The world was changed forever in an instant.

Trump. My number one and it's not even close.
Since he was first elected in 2016 I have followed his antics every day. I am astonished that a man with so little knowledge of the world and its history can become a world leader.
A man so totally devoid of diplomacy can occupy the post of top diplomat.
A man so vain as to ASK, almost demand, the Nobel peace prize but at the same time blow fishing boats out of the water, the crew convicted and sentenced to death without trial.
The self appointed head of the Peace Board who orders the killing of leaders he doesn't like, and, he does it without consultation.
A man who will stand before an audience of heads of state and spout utter drivel laced with insults.
A man who doesn't realise that you can't reduce the price of something by 600% or that you can't inject people with bleach to cure covid.
A man who demands that he be given a country because, "What right do the natives have to it?"
A man who  pardons insurrectionists because they wear hats with his slogan printed on them.

Everything he has done, and continues to do, is solely for his own gratification.

What a story.

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We had electricity on ration, 3 days on, 3 days off (or was it hours?) if memory not deceiving me? Imagine that happening now. WOT, NO TELLY?

Think that was Heath's miners' strike. Thatcher had coal imports lined up and "scab" road hauliers to get it to the power stations.  Mining was a horrible, dangerous job that no one could seriously have liked doing, so it was a bit ironic that it was the last stand against de-industrialisation.

I remember a left wing figure, might have been the eloquent Jimmy Reid, saying that those receiving redundancy payments should consider that the jobs aren't theirs to sell, but belong to the community (or words to that effect). In my first school summer job, in a swanky clothes shop, a group of pissed-up steel workers came in to buy new suits etc with their (in those days) pretty substantial dunny pay-offs - so Jimmy's words fell on very deaf ears.


 

[Kev B]

So difficult but here goes in no particular order.

The death of Princess Diana 1997

9/11

The Tsunami 2004

All shocking events, brought to us in our homes by the news channels from around the world.

[Karabiner]

Epstein Starts WW3

Kennedy's Assassination

The Profumo Scandal

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Epstein Starts WW3

Kennedy's Assassination

The Profumo Scandal

Ha, very good Ralph.