Earliest memory of a world event you can remember?

remember the 1977 silver jubilee as a 4yr old clearly as we had to dress up.

Also remember Elvis dying a month or so later.

Whats yours?

Mine's visiting my Grandfather on his death bed in a loony bin and showing him a toy I'd been given by my parents to relieve the obvious boredom. It was a Mexican bandit type character riding a horse made from a rubber like substance shaped around a wire frame.

To be honest I've never given it much thought. But on reflection it makes me feel quite sad.

Geoffrey Trueman wrote:Mine's visiting my Grandfather on his death bed in a loony bin and showing him a toy I'd been given by my parents to relieve the obvious boredom. It was a Mexican bandit type character riding a horse made from a rubber like substance shaped around a wire frame.

To be honest I've never given it much thought. But on reflection it makes me feel quite sad.

It probably means a lot to you but as per the thread title it's hardly a 'world event' :|

When did the Challenger shuttle explode? 1986. No, I must remember something before that...

Gulf war - late 1990-91, Rajiv Gandhi's assasination - 1991.

Assasination of Mujibur Rahman.

Death of PG Wodehouse (Years later I thought it was a global event, anyway).

Mine would probably be the Lockerbie plane crash in 1988.

Except for JKL's first example, every single early childhood memory of a global event, including mine, seems to be a death or a disaster.

Says something, dunno what.

1972 Olympics ...the achievements of Shane Gould and Mark Spitz ...but not the Israelis

Typical that an Aussie only remembers the 1972 olympics for a few gold medals that the Aussie's won.

Trev

Can you imagine the media coverage in 1972?

They only basically show Ozzie events now ...I think Spitz was lucky to even get a mention back then ...lucky he won 7 Gold Medals or we would never have heard of him

my birth. its a bit hazy though

after that gandhi's assassination

The One wrote:my birth. its a bit hazy though

after that gandhi's assassination

Oh My God!!!

You killed Gandhi!

You bastard!

JKLever wrote:remember the 1977 silver jubilee as a 4yr old clearly as we had to dress up.

Also remember Elvis dying a month or so later.

Whats yours?

Mine is Cyclone Tracy which destroyed my home town of Darwin in Christmas 1974 (just before my 3rd birthday).

Other than that, the silver jubilee (I recall the special 50c coin in Oz) and Elvis are other early memories (with a vague recollection that the Montreal Olympics were on).

Not quite global - but nevertheless significant - but I do have a strong recollection of the sacking of the Whitlman government and my mum and uncle taking me to a "Shame Fraser Shame" rally.