What are news events that you remember were most profoundly all over TV and papers?
1. Sinking of MS Estonia
2. Boxing Day tsunami (due to a holiday location there were more Finnish casualties than in any disaster since WWII)
3. Finland wins first ice hockey world championship 1995
4. 9/11
5. Finland wins Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Two events that could be on the list, but I'm not relying on my memory, having been so young: Chernobyl and assassination of Swedish prime minister Palme (the Nordic equivalent of JFK)