Name a big news story that is barely remembered now.

All those international terrorist incidents just become memes with the phrase "Pray for ______" overlayed. They all drive me up the wall because I just want to yell at every person who shares them online: "There is no God! Prayers do nothing!"

The Unabomber

Likewise most of the shootings in the US. Except for those tiny kids in Connecticut, that was the limit. And the movie theater, and Columbine.

Quemoy and Matsu

Black teen Michael Brown shot dead by white cop in Ferguson, MO

That whole Find Kony stuff.

Hurricane Andrew

The Casey Anthony murder trial.

The pussy grabbing video

^ Worse than Casey and largley forgotten: Susan Smith.

Edward Snowden

[quote]Quemoy and Matsu

Who??

The serial killings of black gay boys in Atlanta decades ago.

Iran Contra...

The Diapered Astronaut

Monica Lewinsky

The Challenger explosion

Michael Jackson / Dr. Murray Propofol Trial

The Y2K terror.

Wasn't the world supposed to end on 12/21/12?

What was it? Mr. Holmes and the Worlds Fair in Chicago?

Missing Malaysia plane MH370

MH370 is still odd...

MH319, on the other hand...

Where in the world is Carmen Diego?

Death of Farrah Fawcett

Pulse

Natalee Halloway

Baby Jessica in the well

Samantha Smith

Ruby Ridge

David Koresh

That suicide cult led by Marshall Applewhite

Lorena Bobbitt.

The transfer of Hong Kong.

Mad Cow disease.

The murder of Valerie Percy, the daughter of Illinois millionaire and Senate candidate (and later Senator) Charles Percy

Donald Trump claimed his inauguration crowd sizes were bigger than Obama's, and complained about the dishonest media coverage in front of the memorial wall at the CIA. He claimed he lost the popular vote due to voter fraud of over 3 million votes, which would be investigated along with the "phone tap" that Obama put on Trump Tower.

The Tiger Woods mess with Ambien and Rachel Uchitel and Gloria Alred.

Ambien is no joke!

Who was Samantha Smith?

Monica Lewinsky

Remember Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend that he didn't want black people at the basketball games. His racist remarks and the trashy girlfriend V Stiviano was like all anyone talked about for quite a while.

Where are these people now especially V Stiviano. Seems after seeking for 15 minutes of fame she just disappeared.

Yolanda Saldivar's murder of Selena, which shook every Latino/a in the USA and was barely noticed by anyone else

Remember when everyone was freaking out over Ebola?

Elián González

The Germanwings crash.

Laci Peterson. The whole country stopped for that

R38, I remember the Selena murder very well. There was a mainstream movie about it. I'm not Hispanic! I don't remember polling other whites about it, but I think most people were generally aware of it and thought it was sad.

A few people have mentioned Monica Lewinsky. Her name has actually come up quite a bit lately. Like, constantly. If you're on Facebook and read political posts/newspaper articles on there, both Republicans and Democrats have been bringing up that whole scandal on a daily basis, as it relates (or doesn't) to our current To Impeach Or Not To Impeach? quandary.

Hurricane Katrina, Haitian Earthquake

Pokemon go

The Katie Beers kidnapping in NY

The Elizabeth Smart kidnapping in Utah ("Thou sayest")

The three women kidnapped and held captive in Cleveland by Ariel Castro

American invasion of Grenada.

Hugh Grant & his hooker Divine Brown

Baby Faye

Baby M.

The Who concert massacre; 11 dead.

The fall of Skylab

I don"t remember the deaths at the Who concert...what an awful story.

Octomom

Balloon Boy

R49: not only do I not remember those stampede deaths, I don't think I had ever heard of this in all of my 4-plus decades on this Earth.

Another forgotten stampede incident that happened here in the U.S. (with almost as many fatalities as there were in The Who tragedy) was the horror that took place in N.Y.C. on December 28, 1991 - when 9 people were trampled to their deaths while trying to gain access to a City College of New York gymnasium where the "Heavy D and Puff Daddy Celebrity Charity Basketball Game" was to take place. Certain stars from the world of hip-hop and R&B were due to participate in this charity basketball game.

I remember hearing about this when it happened - and it happened to be the very first time I heard of an up-and-comer named Puff Daddy (P. Diddy). He and Heavy D. were involved in organizing/promoting the event - and were partially blamed for the catastrophe.

R13 - that's an interesting way of putting it. It sometimes seems to me that this was something that was known, but mostly omitted from mainstream coverage of the murders. Well, "gay for pay" may be more accurate when it comes to some of the victims; for it's been said that many of the victims were "street hustlers", but left unsaid is exactly what type of hustling that included.

Christopher Dorner and his rampage

Vester Flanagan (a.k.a. Bryce Williams) and his shocking murder of a news reporter and cameraman on live TV

Mark Barton - the frustrated day trader - killing 12 people in Atlanta in 1999:

Orlando Pulse:

A postal worker "going postal" and killing 14 people in an Edmund, Oklahoma post office on August 20, 1986:

R38 - like R43, I am also a non-Latino who remembers the Selena murder very well....I don't consider it something that has been forgotten about by any means. There is something about that event that left a certain enduring impact - it may not be explicitly mentioned every day, but it's not totally out of the public consciousness, either.

I think it has helped that:

A very successful movie was made about Selena's life and murder; a movie that - to this day - you can sometimes catch on cable or even network TV.

The posthumous single "I Could Fall In Love With You" has been very successful, and is not a song that has disappeared from playlists; for ex., it is often one of the "go to" singles for radio stations that play '90s hits.

Ebola was a great club! I wish they would re-open it.

Hillary's alleged emails.

The Selena murder received massive mainstream media coverage - and many people remember how Selena was billed as someone who was on the cusp of mainstream stardom when she was gunned down.

The armed standoff of the Philadelphia Police Department with the controversial black libertarian group MOVE in 1985 - during which the Philadelphia police actually dropped bombs on (yes, bombed) the MOVE residence:

The Nice truck that killed 84 people:

The Holocaust..... oh wait, it's still beaten round my head every day of my life

Hillary.

What r22 said

I'm trying to think of a story but I can't remember any,

This was hushed up before it could become a big news story:

The Murder of Jo Cox.

Gary Hart's tryst with Donna Rice on a yacht named "Monkey Business" (which ended his presidential candidacy.)

Suez Crisis

Zika Virus

West Nile Virus

Korean War

Who shot JR?

I will never forget the stupid baby Jessica trapped in the well shit. I was watching my favorite show Rags to Riches (rich guy adopts 5 singing orphans including a young Tisha Campbell) when the show was interrupted by live footage of Jessica being rescued. Little did I or anyone else know but this was to be the last episode of RTR to ever air as it had just been cancelled. I never got to watch the end of the episode until last year, nearly 30 years later when I bought the DVD's. Fuck baby Jessica. The world may have forgotten but I haven't

Woody Allen sex abuse story.

R66, yeah that's the kind of thing that we as a species probably shouldn't forget.

Patty Hearst kidnapping (and SLA involvement.)

Dainty June

Kim's paper magazine

Chandra Levy

Lindbergh Baby

Dan Quale the Potato(e) boy

Dick Cheney shot some dude one time.

Menendez Brothers (except that they are re-animating its soggy, rotten corpse for a movie this year)

Exxon Valdez spill

Tienanmen Square

What about meeeee?!!!!

This ho!

How could anyone forget Selena since it's her movie that bought J Lo to our attention and to everlasting fame.

It's easy to forget Selena when you've never heard of her in the first place.

I didn't know about Selena until she was killed...

I lived in Tx at the time of Selena's death and many of the Mexican restaurants had shrines for her and candles and airbrushed t-shirts for sale to commemorate her.

The Iran hostage crisis

The first World Trade Center attack, in 1993

Oil crisis​ of the mid-70s

The "Family Annihilator" concept. There was even a Law & Order episode about it.

Dungeons and Dragons board games having Satanic elements.

Arsenic in the water was a big storyline until 9/11.

Terry schiavo

Rob Lowe's sex tapes

Remember Y2K hysteria? It was as big a bust as Gerald Rivera's vault.

Terry Schiavo is a perfect example, R91.

Microsoft almost becoming a monopoly.

Ted danson Fucking whoopi Goldberg.

Hugh Grant caught cheating on Liz Hurley in 95 and getting arrested in his car with hooker Divine Brown. Huge scandal at the time. I even had a t shirt with his mug shot.

Netscape v. Internet Explorer

Patricia Krentcil, the "tan mom".

Bird flu

Chicago Tylenol Murders

German gay cannibal

Milli Vanilli scandal

SARS

Spacemen atop the Empire State Building using their freeze ray.

I lived in Taiwan during SARS. Seeing everyone in medical masks for months like some science fiction nightmare... Then everyone forgot all about it and went back to not washing their hands with soap.

How could anyone forget Selena Q. When Jennifer lopez and selena gomez are her legacy

Don Imus getting fired over his "nappy-headed hos" remark.

"Nappy headed"? Is this a scat thing? People wear baby nappies on their heads?

Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.

3 Mile Island near nuclear meltdown disaster.

Acid rain.

The Duke Energy chemical spill into North Carolina water supply.

Flint Michigan.

Chris Christie and BRIDGEGATE

The UFO lights over Phoenix, Arizona.

Bridgegate isn't over, is it?

Was Baby Jessica retarded? I always got a shortbus vibe from her. Maybe her brain was deprived of oxygen in that fucking well.

Chris Christie's fat arse probably wishes it were R108.

Unfortunately, Flint Michigan's water crisis is still ongoing as well.

That time in 2000 when the Russian sub got stuck at the bottom of the ocean The assassination of Bin Laden The movie about the assassination of Bin Laden pissing people off That runaway bride That politician who called a guy mucaca The gay dude who got caught doing some corrupt shit and said he was a gay American The "I am not a witch" politician lady The embassy bombings in Africa That massacre of those Amish school girls When that Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated When that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated The Atlanta Olympics bombing The Great White nightclub fire and the nightclub fire in Brazil and the hipster nightclub fire last year The riots that happened in Benton Harbor That plane that. crashed in Brooklyn I think after 9/ 11 Janet Jackson nipplegate The general whorish stunts Madonna used to pull all the time When that soldier in Afghanistan killed all those civilians When a bunch of people were suffocated in trucks in Afghanistan and everyone was like,"whoopsie!" When a bunch of soldiers massacred civilization and in Haditha Iraq

Pray for manchester will be forgotten by next week.

#blacklivesmatter

5 seconds later:

Jessica Lynch's rescue

Iraq, in general

The Causeway Cannibal attack. Don't Google image search unless you want nightmares!

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The Chilean miners

The House Banking Scandal

Koreagate

Whitewater

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Gary Condit and Chandra Levy

Treason

Admittedly it's not a very 'big' story but when singer David Campbell came out, it was notable. Now, for some reason, his coming out as gay seems wiped from Australia's memory, he's straight and married to a woman. But I suppose if you want Channel Nein to let you host a morning show, you'll have to let yourself be straight-washed by their PR team.

Neither did I, R85. If you were not Mexican-American, or didn't live in Texas (or the Southwest) - there was an excellent chance that you were not aware of Selena until her death.

The Florida dentist who infected 6 of his patients with HIV in the 1980s (via standard dental procedures) - the most public of whom was Kimberly Bergalis (who quickly developed AIDS and died within 4 years of her infection).

The Page Sex Scandal - Congressmen Gerry Studds and Daniel Crane were repimanded and then censured by Congress for sexual involvement with 17-year-old pages. Gerry Studds from Massachusetts came out ad gay on the floor of Congress and later was reelected several times. Daniel Crane lost his reelection bid in the next election.

The "Prince Charles is bisexual?" scandal-that-wasn't of 2003.

Exxon oil spill

That ValueJet flight that crashed into the Florida Everglades in May of 1996 - instantly killing all 110 people aboard.

The seemingly endless trial of Scott Peterson for the murder of his wife Laci.

The trial of David Westerfield for the murder of 7-year-old Danielle Van Dam.

Slobodan Milosevic - the Serbian/Yugoslavian political leader - and his vast war crimes (including genocide).

New Coke

The BALCO scandal (Victor Conte)

While the space shuttle Challenger catastrophe of 1986 remains so memorable - the equally-deadly space shuttle Columbia disaster of 2003 is much less remembered.

The 2000 presidential election, particularly the Florida part

Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis of 2002

The rape trial of William Kennedy Smith

Another Kennedy scandal...Chappaquiddick.

The falsely accused Richard Jewell.

al gore wins hands down

r11 is good. Here it is formatted for easier reading:

That time in 2000 when the Russian sub got stuck at the bottom of the ocean

The assassination of Bin Laden

The movie about the assassination of Bin Laden pissing people off

That runaway bride

That politician who called a guy mucaca

The gay dude who got caught doing some corrupt shit and said he was a gay American

The "I am not a witch" politician lady

The embassy bombings in Africa

That massacre of those Amish school girls

When that Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated

When that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated

The Atlanta Olympics bombing

The Great White nightclub fire and the nightclub fire in Brazil and the hipster nightclub fire last year

The riots that happened in Benton Harbor

That plane that. crashed in Brooklyn I think after 9/ 11

Janet Jackson nipplegate

The general whorish stunts Madonna used to pull all the time

When that soldier in Afghanistan killed all those civilians

When a bunch of people were suffocated in trucks in Afghanistan and everyone was like,"whoopsie!"

When a bunch of soldiers massacred civilization and in Haditha Iraq

That one where the man and the girl took the car and drove far away from where they did it and killed lots of people on the way.

The Sydney Mutilator, active 1961-1962. Australia's first (known) serial killer, William McDonald (born Allan Ginsburg, in UK) died in May 2015, aged 90 while serving a life sentence for luring men into dark spots around the inner city suburbs, then attacking them, cutting off their genitals and killing them. This, in the early '60s, scared the crap out of people, and the details of his attacks caused faintings in the court room when he was tried. [Coincidently looked a bit like notorious sadistic serial pedo/murderer Derek Percy, who died two years earlier in 2013.]

That time when the man went up into the other man.

Anthrax . I have a cousin who was a receptionist at a hair salon at the time. She was fretting because she opened the mail delivered to the salon. I told her I doubted the terrorists were going to target a hair salon in Indiana .

And yeah I know, I live in Indiana . I shouldn't be making fun of anyone .

The Paris Hilton sextape.

The preppy rapist, Alex Kelly

The preppy murderer, Robert Chambers

Joel Steinberg/Hedda Nussbaum & baby Lisa

The British nanny who shook a kid to death

Not exactly big news but: Aaron Schock

The moon landing.

That time last year, when a lesbian couple and their son were slaughtered and their house set on fire- A hate crime and act of terrorism by deranged transactivist in womanface, "Dana Rivers" (born David Chester Warfield) .

Silently and determinedly forgotten by LGBT media since his arrest in November last year.

The "Shoe Bomber"

Larry Craig wide stance and tapping scandal. Here's his press conference when he declared he wasn't gay.

Laurie Dann. Has there ever been a DL thread about this freak?

Mark Sanford hiking the Appalachian trail.

Larry Craig isn't gay.

The "Rely" tampons toxic shock syndrome deaths

The "Billionaire Boys Club" murders

The Boston, Mass. murder of pregnant Carol Stuart by her husband Charles. He blamed it on a black carjacker (even going as far as shooting himself) though the police immediately saw through that bullshit. Committed suicide after being charged.

The death-by-horse-cock of Ken "Mr. Hands" Pinyan; I would've loved to have been around when *that* story hit the DL!

Laurie who?

The charity stunt "Hands Across America" that took place in 1986. So '80s!

"Televangelist" Jimmy Swaggart and his sex scandal(s) of the late-'80s and early-'90s

[bold]All[/bold] news stories die quick deaths. It's always the new story of the day. The media and everyone else have short attention spans.

The Greyhound bus beheading

The August 2016 earthquake that rocked central Italy

[quote] While the space shuttle Challenger catastrophe of 1986 remains so memorable - the equally-deadly space shuttle Columbia disaster of 2003 is much less remembered.

That's because one got a very special episode of [italic]Punky Brewster[/italic] about it, and the other got crickets because it happened around the time the Iraq War began.

[quote]All news stories die quick deaths. It's always the new story of the day. The media and everyone else have short attention spans.

Sorry r160, but, no.

Mt St Helens 1980 eruption

R164 - yep!

And I'm still here.

Any of the three separate gay serial killers dubbed "The Freeway Killer" in 1970s southern California.

R163: I doubt that many people even remember the "Punky Brewster" episode (I sure don't) - though your connection of the Columbia disaster with the start of the Iraq war may be a little more accurate.

I think the Challenger explosion happened during a "simpler" time in U.S. history - a time when people's attention was less scattered. And the Challenger explosion happened during the more spectacular launch phase - a phase that attracts more cameras and TV coverage (the average person can't even see much of the descent of the shuttle back into the Earth's atmosphere - and the part that we can see is relatively boring compared to launch). The Challenger explosion happened at a time when shuttle launches were still being shown live; many people were watching it live, and experienced the shock of the disaster in real time. (I, myself, was watching it live - my school cancelled classes that day because of the icy, cold weather that was in the Atlanta area.)

These and other reasons (including notable crew members such as Ronald McNair and Christa McAuliffe) help make the Challenger explosion so memorable.

Carolyn Warmus- The "Fatal Attraction" killer

Amy Fisher- the "Long Island Lolita" (3 TV movies on the networks)

Pamela Smart- story "To Die For" inspired

LOL R167 - yes, you are! L.A. craziness has staying power.

The "Hillside strangler" murders in Los Angeles in the 1970's.

The "Nightstalker" murders in LA/Orange County in the 1980's. Richard Ramirez was an avowed Satanist and broke into people's houses at night and murdered them. Eventually he was recognized in public and chased down and beaten by an angry mob in East LA, and was arrested and convicted of 13 murders. He died in prison before getting the gas chamber.

They should have just let the mob finish the job on Ramirez.

The innocent commercial flight (Korean Airlines) that was shot down by a Soviet-launched missile as it flew through the margins of "restricted" Soviet airspace on the way from New York City to Seoul, Korea on September 1, 1983. The mistake claimed 269 innocent lives.

Gary Hart scandal.

The massacres of civilians in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina... Even after these places receive headlines, not many people know where they are located.

You don't hear about Madonna much these days

Salt Lake City Olympics bribery scandal that unfolded during the very-late '90s

Atlanta Olympics bombings.

Chaz Bono

ENRON

BP oil spill

Flint, Michigan water crisis

Susan Powell , Hayleiiiigggh (?) Cummings etc (Nancy Grace going off the air really affected the missing white woman headlines)

The University of Maryland basketball player Len Bias cocaine overdose two days after he was second pick in the NBA draft and was to be headed to the Boston Celtics. Shocked the nation.

Lindbergh kidnapping

Colin Ferguson - the troubled Jamaican-American who shot and killed 6 people on a Long Island Railroad train in 1993.

The bombing of Yoko Ono

I remember the Punky Brewster episode r169. I was 11 though.

I was just 12, R186 - but I still have no real memory of the episode. I often forget episodes of TV sitcoms if I haven't seen them multiple times in re-runs - and "Punky Brewster" is a show that either hasn't run much in syndication - or I just didn't watch during its years of syndication.

If Paris is already forgotten - then the Brussels attack most certainly is. It almost feels like people started to forget Brussels just a few days after it happened.

Trump's show bombing of that Syrian airfield.

Three Mile Island

"Don't get mad, get everything."

Trump mocking the disable

I didn't inhale.

Prince Charles and his "I want to be your tampon" message to Camilla.

Killer Bees

Randy Weaver

Tim Allen - felon

ZIKA

Swine/avian flu.

Anthrax laced mail.

Black Monday, 1987

The Legionnaires' Disease outbreak in 1976.

Some listed are very good because they really did dominate the news at the time but then someone will come along and list a clunker--like the Punky Brewster cancellation. Not one person talked about or cared about that at the time. So ridiculous to even mention.

But from the recent past--how about Black Lives Matter. During the election this was the most talked about movement. We even had Kaepernick not standing for the national anthem. Then after Trump won--silence. The didn't even bother to show up and protest Trump's election. In fact, the celebrities that reached out the most to Trump were African Americans like Steve Harvey.

It just seems like BLM is in a slump now.

[quote]It just seems like BLM is in a slump now.

Unless it was just a concoction

Ingrid Bergman's adulterous affair with Roberto Rossellini.

When did teddy bears become a symbol of the afterlife?

They show up everywhere nowadays.

R37 Im convinced that Stiviano is a tranny. Thats the real story.

No way thats a real woman.

The Beslan School Attack

Nearly 400 killed, almost 200 of them children.

Islamist homicide terrorists. As usual.

Kathy Griffin holding up an effigy of Donald Trump's bloodied head back in 2017.

AIDS, formerly known as GRID

The L.A. riots.

The "Chick chick boom" at the Cross.

Coogee Bay Hotel's famous poo ice cream.

Elian Gonzales. Someone recently posted something about him as an adult in Cuba but before that I had not thought about that story since it concluded. I think a lot of the things that happened right before 9/11 are like that.

The face eating zombies.

The Bowling Green Massacre

Someone should make a television show that follows up on all these old forgotten stories.

Let's see what Jessica in the well is doing today.

How about that defiant ebola nurse who refused to be quarantined. What's she up to today.

Whatever happened to Balloon boy

How about batkid.

etc etc etc

Thank God nobody has mentioned us.

Claus & Sunny Von Bulow

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

Natalie Holloway

The Jenny Jones Show's murder and lawsuit. A former guest, who was straight, murdered the gay man who had revealed his secret crush to him on the "I have a crush" episode.

That was in the 90s, when outrageous talk shows ruled daytime television.

The Twilight Zone Movie (1983) helicopter crash that accident the killed Vic Morrow and 2 child actors. Major lawsuit.

Bush v Gore--a month of recounts, hanging chads, and not knowing for certain who the next president would be.

Isadora Duncan, killed by her scarf.

Boy George on The A-Team.

Roseannes same sex kiss.

Ellen coming out episode.

3kids who had hiv in Florida, and the neighbors burned their house to the ground while they were away..

Ryan White

The "Twinkie defense" and subsequent white night riots.. The gays had more balls back then...

Magic Johnson announcing he had hiv.

No one really talks about it but a WHITe kid got killed by a cop. The smart aleck kid flashed his lights to a psycho cop who pulled him over. The kid gave him a hard time and video taped it with his cell phone. The cop told him to quit he refused. The cop got him out of the car and kicked the phone out of his hand. They fought and the cop shot him 7 times. The cop didn't get fired.

Colton Harris Moore, the "Barefoot Bandit"

Me.

Amber Guyger's murder of Botham Jean in Dallas, what the hell happened with that? Likewise the Aussie chick who got murdered by the cop in MN, which wasn't as much in the news but still...

three mass shootings ago

Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, back in 1978. It was a HUGE debate that was constantly mentioned in the news.

[Quote]Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November 1977, she underwent the then-experimental IVF procedure. A mature egg was removed from one of her ovaries and combined in a laboratory dish with her husband’s sperm to form an embryo. The embryo then was implanted into her uterus a few days later. Her IVF doctors, British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and scientist Robert Edwards, had begun their pioneering collaboration a decade earlier. Once the media learned of the pregnancy, the Browns faced intense public scrutiny. Louise’s birth made headlines around the world and raised various legal and ethical questions.

R219, thanks to Kushner, everyone knows who Ethel Rosenberg is. You would think someone posting on a gay site would know that.

[quote]thanks to Kushner, everyone knows who Ethel Rosenberg is.

Not THAT Kushner.

The NYPD finding a naked and deceased Nelson Rockefeller in his Manhattan office along with his twentysomething female intern.

R230, there is only one Kushner who deserves be referred to by last name only, and that is Mr Tony Kushner. Plus the connection between Kusner and Rosenberg is obvious.

Pee Wee Herman masturbating in a movie theater

The Las Vegas mass shooting.

The Texas church massacre

[quote]there is only one Kushner who deserves be referred to by last name only, and that is Mr Tony Kushner. Plus the connection between Kushner and Rosenberg is obvious.

More true in 1991 than in 2018, unfortunately.

The Migrant Caravan, you know, now that the midterm elections have passed (save for the recounts).

The Miami Relatives of Elian Gonzalez

The #metoo accused in government, media and entertainment. The only ones remembered are Weinstein and Franken.

"Remember the Maine."

KONY 2012.

Teapot Dome Scandal

How come we lack historical memory in America?

Dolly the cloned sheep (1996-2003)

Ban and criminalization of German language in 20th C USA.

[Quote]"Remember the Maine."

I do!

Those kids live-streaming themselves committing suicide.

Brittney Spears marrying a high school friend for 48 hours.

Anthony Weiner

Sara Palin appearing on SNL.

#OscarsSoWhite

Susan Boyle

The child eaten by an alligator at Disney World.

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries

Blac Chyna running away with Rob's baby.

Jessi Slaughter

Stop Online Piracy Act

Net Neutrality debate.

I’m confused; why would we still be talking about most of this stuff? It’s no longer news it’s history.

[Quote]I’m confused; why would we still be talking about most of this stuff? It’s no longer news it’s history.

It's because certain other news stories are still remembered, or taught to us, many decades later, like the Hindenburg disaster, the Baby Lindbergh Kidnapping, and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Why are those stories still mentioned, but not many of the others?

Attica Prison Riots

Resurrection City

Alcatraz Takeover

Exxon Valduz

Garbage from Tsunami washing ashore in Oregon

Scud Stud

Bhopal

Yes, of course, R249, but the Hindenburg and Lindbergh’s Baby were way, WAY bigger stories than Blac Chyna, someone who I’m sure many don’t even know, whereas everyone in America knew about Lindbergh.

I agree that it’s interesting which stories stick with us and which fall away, but many of these stories suggested in the thread were never actually “big” stories.

The two girls on the railroad bridge, the blonde who pretended she was kidnapped, those two kooks who killed a guy in a gay thrill-murder (recent not L&L), the high rise London fire.

I am surprised that my high school students know who the Unabomber is. They are the ones who think Joe Biden is the Vice President. They are always talking about Joe Biden. I don't get it.

That mass shooting yesterday in CA .