What was a big news story when you were growing up that the young today wouldn't no?
 

the queens mother passing

River Phoenix dying maybe?

winston churchill dying

3 day working week

The challenger space shuttle disaster.

Live Aid

All the hostage crisis in Russia.
When the theatre was taken hostage in moscow
And the school hostage crisis. Maybe it was called beslam

Stephen Gately dying.

Here's one that I find mad: To kids my daughter's age, 9/11 and the start of the "War On Terror" etc. is ancient history. Stuff that happened nearly a decade before they were born... barely more relevant to them than the end of the Vietnam war was to me as a teenager.

*know

France 1977


The last execution by guillotine

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