I remember Reagan's election, then him being shot, plus the Challenger. Early 80s baby!

Apollo 13 launch. At my aunt and uncles with the whole family watching. Funny, the launch is a far more vivid memory than any of the moon walk. That I don't even recall.

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Earliest I remember was the Challenger launch when I was in 2nd grade.

JFK assassination.

Really dating myself. 1956 Presidental Conventions. I'd gotten the mumps and was stuck at home for two weeks. In those days the conventions were televised gavel to gavel. To make things worse "The Mickey Mouse Club" was hugely popular and kept being preempted by the politics.
To this date I hate the Conventions.

I was at school and suddenly we were getting out early. Many of the teachers were crying and looked scared. As the bus was pulling out I noticed that the American Flag on the pole was at half staff. No one had said a word why-

When I got home my parents had the news on and I found out that President Kennedy had been assassinated.

What I remember most from all of the coverage was John-John saluting his father's casket.

Challenger explosion for me as well. I wasn't in school yet, but I remember my mom gasping while we were watching it on tv.

For me, probably the Salk polio mass vaccinations followed shortly thereafter by Sputnik and Elvis news.

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I seem to remember the Watergate hearings pre-empting Sesame Street. I was a displeased young boy.

Exactly my memory. I was in daycare and recall only that the whole thing seemed fascinating to the adults, and was so utterly boring to me. Watergate in inexorably linked to the smell of Pine Sol in my mind, because they used that to clean everything there. And I was 6ish at the time.

the Cuban Missle Crisis. I remember going to bed one night and wondering if I would wake up in the morning

Sputnik. Parents and I went outside in October 1957 into backyard one night when it was scheduled to pass over. I was 6 years old and had just entered the First Grade.

I remember the Sputnik coverage.

The only thing prior to that (and it wasn't news per se) was watching Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show, we had just got a TV. I remember mom and dad saying "that'll never last".

Lots of things since then, including Sept 11. I had got to work, took my morning meeting, then walked downstairs to the cafeteria to get breakfast. CNN was broadcasting the smoke coming out of the first tower and I saw the second plane hit. Nothing's been the same since.

In 1952 or so, I remember going to a National Guard armory with my mother and dad. Mom was worried he was going to be sent to Korea. However, he suffered major hearing and ear damage in WWII and was not sent.

Not strictly a news event, but I remember The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

I would have 4 or so at the time. I asked my mother "Why are all the girls screaming?"

"Oh, they just like the music."

"But they can hear the music on the radio," I replied.

My earliest memory.

OJ's white bronco chase.

Duck and cover drills in first/second grade; Cuban Missle Crisis, may not have had full cognizance......next event was JFK's assasination, that sunk in for sure.

I remember seeing combat footage of Vietnam - they were showing helicopters doing an airmobile operation - and the announcers talking about the US casualty figures...

Would have been 1972 or so.

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The sinking of the Andrea Doria off Cape Cod in July 1956, I was almost six. I did not see it on TV, I remember seeing an entire page of the Worcestor or maybe Boston paper showing photos of the ships after the collision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria

Like many the Challenger. I think it was some sort of snow day and we got sent home early. Not a lot of us there.

President Kennedy being shot . I was playing in my room and heard my mother cry out . I ran in the living room and she was looking at the TV and crying . I didn't understand what was going on . I think I was about 5 or 6 yrs old .