I am not locked in a cupboard. Don't worry.
But can you please help me brainstorm what the big news stories have been over the last 30-ish years?
Things like Chernobyl, Columbine, Lennon being shot, 9/11.
ANYTHING at all that was a 'big event'.
All the scandals, deaths, massacres, natural disasters, etc you can think of, just throw 'em out there.
Thank you if you can help.
I'll have a think Zooo... but I'm so self obsessed... I'll only be able to go back 23 years.
Ha. 
That will suffice!
Death of Princess Diana.
- the tsunami
- fall of the Berlin wall
- Lewinsky affair/Clinton impeachment
Election of Labour.
- Columbine
- subprime credit bubble
(- Britney shaving her head?)
- Maddie McCann
- "sexed up" intelligence document
(- Heath Ledger's death)
- London and Madrid bombings
Challenger explosion 1986
Yes I am googling!
Wars:
- Gulf/Iraq
- Yugoslavia
- Kosovo
- Afghanistan
Quote: EllieJP @ July 13 2008, 2:16 PM BSTChallenger explosion 1986
Discovery explosion
http://www.usatoday.com/news/top25-headlines.htm
- Barack Obama winning Democratic primary (sort of)
Why shouldn't you wear Russian underpants?
Because Chernobyl fallout.
Live Aid
Quote: Marc P @ July 13 2008, 2:21 PM BSTWhy shouldn't you wear Russian underpants?
Because Chernobyl fallout.
*snigger*
Off the top of my head, these are some stories which got a lot of attention in the U.S. media. In somewhat chronological order:
Nixon resigns
Iran hostage crisis
Lennon killed
Reagan shot
Falklands war
Mount St. Helens eruption
Shuttle Challenger explosion
Chernobyl
Fall of Berlin Wall
1991 Gulf War
1992 Rodney King verdict and riots in L.A.
1994 L.A. earthquake
End of apartheid
OJ Simpson trial
Clinton impeachment
Columbine
2000 Presidential election
9/11
Iraq War
Hurricane Katrina
Tsunami
I'm sure I've forgotten a lot of good stuff, but it's early and my brain hasn't warmed up yet.
- Harry Potter books
- Concorde accident
- that Litvinenko/Polonium thing
Tiananmen Square
Conservative election victory
The miners strike
- Eschede high speed train accident