Biggest news events

[Justincider]

What do you consider to be the three biggest news events of your lifetime.

[4getmenot]

so why do you think dunblame is a bigger event for you sophie?

[4getmenot]

sorry 'dunblane'

[jake-the-peg]

Well everybody remembers Nagasaki but Hiroshima was the news event.

The first use of a new weapon

If the planes had been flown into Canary warf and then there had been bombs on the New York underground - We'd be talking about the Canary Warf attacks don't you think?

[4getmenot]

who knows. :-)

[Justincider]

So hiroshima was in your lifetime??

[4getmenot]

It is strange. Did more people die in Tsunami in Phuket than in twin towers. So many that no-one mentions. I guess the media has alot to do with it.

[sophie_1003]

Because I was at middle school at the time and I remember them upping the security on all external doors after it happened.

[4getmenot]

I was at 6th form and I remember the paper the next day with all the children on the front :-(

[VHG]

>Did more people die in Tsunami in Phuket than in twin towers. So many that no-one mentions

I mentioned the Boxing Day Tsunami above. About 230,000 died in the Tsunami, as against about 3,000 in Twin Towers.

btw It was not just Phuket, the wave hit about 14 different countries.

http://en.wikipedia.o...dian_Ocean_earthquake

[sophie_1003]

I don't remember the paper but do remember thinking how awful it was, just looked it up because couldn't remember much of it, apparently it remains the deadliest mass murder of children in the UK, should never have happened in the first place but glad it's not a record that's been beaten.

[Justincider]

The Tsunami was a natural event. The twin towers was a deliberate act of mass murder.
Therefore a bigger news event surely?

[4getmenot]

I didnt say no one mentioned it and yes I know it was lots of countries as I watched the programme on it. Ok so without looking on google who can remember the dunblane murdere because even though I read all about it at the time I cannot.

[VHG]

Lots of British people will also remember the Aberfan disaster in 1966 when a spoil tip collapsed killing 114 children in a school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

[4getmenot]

good answer justin, so more shocking.

[4getmenot]

VHG I dont remember that, how awful.

[Justincider]

I remeber Aberfan. I cried a lot that day.

[VHG]

>The Tsunami was a natural event. The twin towers was a deliberate act of mass murder.

While it is a sad thing to say, the twin towers disaster was "better TV". As it was in New York it was filmed from every angle and went all over the world "live".

If it had happened in a place with less TV access and in another country (say in Africa or South America) it may not have been such a big news story.

[4getmenot]

yes so media definitely plays a huge part in what we remember and not the scale of the disaster

[Justincider]

Two planes being flown into skyscrapers is massive news even without pictures.

[craft1948]

I remember Aberfan......that was the first time I can remember my husband crying. The second time was the divorce but that was with relief.
The first major thing I can remember was the 1953 coronation.