Our network turns 35 years old today. And what we're doing today and tomorrow is looking back at some of the major news stories that have made headlines and history since 1980. 

 

Teachers, as always, we encourage you to preview this show. It contains images of some of the most tragic stories CNN has covered.

 

I dedicate the Cable News Network.

 

Good evening, I'm David Walker.

 

And I'm Lois Hart. Now, here's the news.

 

Approximately four shots were fired at the president.

 

Mike Chinoy, CNN Beijing.

 

The skies over Baghdad had been illuminated.

 

This is one pocket of turmoil in the Egyptian capital.

 

Lift off of the space shuttle mission. Obviously a major malfunction.

 

I'm going to have to interrupt this call. Police believe that O.J. Simpson is in that car.

 

Quick. Let's go.

 

Israeli officials say they're trying to use restraint.

 

You can see the people below trapped on Sinjar Mountain.

 

I'm outside this pediatric hospital. Just take a look inside.

 

Some of these people have been waiting outside now for more than three days.

 

As far as we can see under blue sky, it's totally leveled.

 

Princess Diana has died.

 

George Zimmerman not charged with anything in this case.

 

A third of the building has been blown away.

 

There has been a second explosion. 

 

What normally would be the World Trade Center is no more.

 

The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden.

 

USA! USA!

 

It's so rare that we get the cover story that have a happy ending.

 

What is going on in Ferguson, Missouri in downtown America.

 

Here come flash bangs and canisters coming right up at us.