• dellish@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Challenger exploding, closely followed by Chernobyl exploding. I’m sure inbetween there were parts of London exploding. And after that, Pan Am 103 exploding. The 80s were a wild time.

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      I only remember it because they wheeled out the TV’s in the middle of school to watch it. Why did they do that?

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      1986 was wild experience as a kid here in Finland. Chernobyl, Challenger, Olaf Palme assassination (Swedish PM but it was huge news here as well) and Jakomäki Bank Robbery/Mikkeli hostage crisis that ended up in big car explosion seen on tv.

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      l also had Chernobyl in mind at first. It was a big thing, as it affected life as a kid in Europe directly.

      But then I remembered all the news stories surrounding the Anti-Pershing protests.
      These were in 1983, the year in which humanity perhaps was closest to complete annihilation ever.

      Yes, the 80s were wild.