re: What’s the first major news story you remember as a child?

NBC news cutting into my cartoons to announce that Reagan was shot. I ran to my mother telling her and she was mad they cut into children's programming to announce it

I remember a car with a loudspeaker on it going around our neighborhood and telling us about the RFK assassination.

The first thing I saw on TV was a really grainy rebroadcast of Queen Elizabeth's coronation that had been flown from London to NYC where the broadcast originated. (A neighbor had bought a TV set just to watch it and she invited us to share, and that, too, was memorable).

After TV sets became a bit more common, the news I remember from stopping at Flo and Russel's house was that the Korean War is over (not that I knew what it was, but it was a big announcement on a TV broadcast out of D.C.

Iran hostage crisis.

has to be the moon landing watched on a tv at school, Although I also remember watching something with Nixon. may have been the same thing?

Princess Diana’s death

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JfK shooting in Dallas. I am oldish.

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Me too. 2nd grade.

Probably something before this, but the one that comes to mind is Sputnik.

Yes, I am old. I am 70 and plan to get older.

Mt. Saint Helens eruption

I recall earlier sporting events than I do news reports.
Earliest news report probably was Jimmy Carter election and how my Dad picked on my mother for voting for him.
I don't think she has voted Democrat since.