DBRP: What is the Earliest Historical Event You Remember?

For me, it was President Bill Clinton resigning in disgrace after it was found out he had an affair with Tipper Gore. That guy always did have an interesting choice of woman, but hey, at least he is married to Angelina Jolie now!

What about you guys? What is the earliest historical event you remember?

OOC: Please, nothing ASB. No nukes or end-of-the-world senarios. Also, not POD from before...say, 1950. Okay?
 
For me, it was President Bill Clinton resigning in disgrace after it was found out he had an affair with Tipper Gore. That guy always did have an interesting choice of woman, but hey, at least he is married to Angelina Jolie now!

What about you guys? What is the earliest historical event you remember?

OOC: Please, nothing ASB. No nukes or end-of-the-world senarios. Also, not POD from before...say, 1950. Okay?
since im only 14 I would say 9/11 would be it, i was in kindergardern at the time.
 
since im only 14 I would say 9/11 would be it, i was in kindergardern at the time.
Every generation has that question: "Where were you when JFK got shot?" "Where were you when the Challenger blew up?" "Where were you on 9/11?"

I'm certainly old enough to have remembered political events before 9/11, but I never really paid attention before then. But seeing the Capital Building in ruins on TV..., man, that stick with a guy, you know?
 
It's hard to say which one was earlier because they overlapped, but it would either be the Fergana War or the Ogaden Genocide. Either way, about 1992. I think the Fergana War was on the news a bit more, but the images from Ethiopia were so much more harrowing as a 5 year old.
 
For me, it was President Bill Clinton resigning in disgrace after it was found out he had an affair with Tipper Gore. That guy always did have an interesting choice of woman, but hey, at least he is married to Angelina Jolie now!

I remember a lot of the lead up to that, I remember thinking A: "well Hillary's spending all her time in Little Rock being Governor no duh he cheated" and B: "poor Al becoming President this way" but they both did ok didn't they? Gore played the wronged Husband into 10 years as President and Hill played it into the Senate and in many ways into the White House in 08 (thats not the only reason she was elected, or the only reason Gore was reelected in '04 but it sure got them the women vote) I guess I remember the 1996 election, President Bill Clinton Vs Senator Phil Crane but it's very very fuzzy I just remember wanting Clinton to win and he did, I thought I wished it true :D
 
My earliest historical memory

Easy one for me, crouched in my family's shelter during the Cuba War. We lived far away enough from NYC (to the West, thank God!) that the fallout missed us, but dad was taking no chances. Only three American cities destroyed, and one of them had to be 'ours'! I was terrified, I was only 4, and here I was watching my parents crying....
 
well the first thing i remember is my parents worry at the 73 Arab Israeli war and how much they where shocked at the fall of Israel and the mass exhodus from the ports.
Being 7 i was so shocked at all these people who looked just like anyone on the street abandoned by the world in those camps in Italy, Greece and Cyprus, it still haunts me today
 

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Easy one for me, crouched in my family's shelter during the Cuba War. We lived far away enough from NYC (to the West, thank God!) that the fallout missed us, but dad was taking no chances. Only three American cities destroyed, and one of them had to be 'ours'! I was terrified, I was only 4, and here I was watching my parents crying....

OOC: No Nukes....

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For me it would have to be either the assassination of President Wellstone in 1996, and ofcourse 9/11. Seeing the President shot on live TV was enough, but damn, a plane crashing into the Capitol building is tough on a kid. The 90's were a tough time for America..
 
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I remember the HMS Sheffield getting blew up by the Argentine Airforce in the Falklands war.

I also remember the South Africans fighting Guerrilla's in Angola. (because I thought as a child they where actually fighting real Gorilla's that lived in the jungle).
 
I recall Queen Elizabeth II's coronation because we got the 21" Admiral B&W TV. The first program on it was a soap opera, "Search for Tomorrow", I think. I went out to play. I don't remember the Korean war, but, of course, I remember "Sgt. Rock" comic books. More significantly, I remember the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. Yay! The Leafs traded Big Frank Mahovolich. Boo.
 
For me it would have to be either the assassination of President Wellstone in 1999, and ofcourse 9/11. Seeing the President shot on live TV was enough, but damn, a plane crashing into the Capitol building is tough on a kid. The 90's were a tough time for America..

OCC: odd because Al Gore was president from 1998-2008
 
More significantly, I remember the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. Yay! The Leafs traded Big Frank Mahovolich. Boo.

Ah well, sport-wise my earliest memory was England winning the European Championships in 1996. Sport just hadn't interested me much before then.


I remember Blair being elected in '97 - him standing on the steps of Number 10 waving. And then the gunshots...

It might have been a bit crass having a rock concert to celebrate becoming PM, but that was the kind of guy Blair was. And the Gunshots had some good songs (if not much integrity)!
 
I remember being so pleased that Fox changed their minds and aired the pilot of Firefly first. If they'd forced Joss to write something at the last minute the show probably wouldn't have had its amazingly successful six-season run.
 
The ones that stick with me are the Challenger explosion and the bomb the brought down Mulroney's plane. The latter was a shock as nothing like that had ever happened here before. And it lit off "The Troubles" in Quebec that haven't really ended, event though the murdering traitors got crushed again and again.
 
Another one is the Iraq war, I remember shows on TV being interruptted and the president speaking and the scenes of combat. The most profound thing I can remember is a abrams tank in grainy-green imagery rolling through the desert.
weird to think I was raised in a a time were the US has been to war virtually for the entirty of my existance...
 
Like most people my, age, it would have to be the dramatic rescue of the Challenger crew, thought doomed by the extensive damage to their heat shield during liftoff until the heroically rushed Colombia mission and that unforgettable shuttle-to-shuttle spacewalk.
 
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